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Material World The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Ed Conway

Name: Material World The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Ed Conway
SKU: BELL-53579868
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.1 (40 reviews)

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Material World The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Ed Conway instant download after payment.

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 5 MB

Pages: 512

Author: Ed Conway

ISBN: 9780593534342, 0593534344

Language: English

Year: 2023

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Material World The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Ed Conway by Ed Conway 9780593534342, 0593534344 instant download after payment.

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls “the ethereal world”—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.
In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway...