Material World
- Indbinding:
- Paperback
- Sideantal:
- 512
- Udgivet:
- 4. Juli 2024
- Størrelse:
- 126x35x198 mm.
- Vægt:
- 500 g.
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Beskrivelse af Material World
THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Book of the Year by FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography'Lively, rich and exciting... full of surprises' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads_____________Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted.In Material World, Ed Conway travels the globe - from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe, to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan, to the eerie green pools where lithium originates - to uncover a secret world we rarely see. Revealing the true marvel of these substances, he follows the mind-boggling journeys, miraculous processes and little-known companies that turn the raw materials we all need into products of astonishing complexity.As we wrestle with climate change, energy crises and the threat of new global conflict, Conway shows why these substances matter more than ever before, and how the hidden battle to control them will shape our geopolitical future. This is the story of civilisation - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - from a new perspective: literally from the ground up.
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Bogen Material World findes i følgende kategorier:
- Business og læring > Økonomi og finans
- Business og læring > Videnskab
- Økonomi, finans, erhvervsliv og ledelse > Økonomi > Økonomisk historie
- Lægevidenskab og sygepleje
- Matematik og naturvidenskab > Naturvidenskab: generelle emner > Videnskabens og teknologiens påvirkning af samfundet
- Matematik og naturvidenskab > Naturvidenskab: generelle emner > Naturvidenskabens historie
- Matematik og naturvidenskab > Fysik
- Geofag, geografi og miljøvidenskab > Geovidenskab > Geologi, geomorfologi og lithosfæren > Ressourcegeologi
- Teknologi, ingeniørvidenskab og landbrug > Maskinteknik og materialer > Materialelære
- Teknologi, ingeniørvidenskab og landbrug > Anden anvendt videnskab og teknologi > Mineteknologi og mineteknik
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