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Conway, Ed, 1979-
Subjects
Raw materials.
Mines and mineral resources.
Sand -- History.
Salt -- History.
Iron -- History.
Copper -- History.
Petroleum -- History.
Lithium -- History.
Economics -- History.
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Conway, Ed, 1979-
Raw materials.
Mines and mineral resources.
Sand -- History.
Salt -- History.
Iron -- History.
Copper -- History.
Petroleum -- History.
Lithium -- History.
Economics -- History.
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Material world : the six
raw
materials
that
shape
modern
civilization
/ Ed Conway.
by
Conway, Ed, 1979-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Call #:
333.7 C767m
Subjects
Raw
materials
.
Mines and mineral resources.
Sand -- History.
Salt -- History.
Iron -- History.
Copper -- History.
Petroleum -- History.
Lithium -- History.
Economics -- History.
ISBN:
9780593534342 (hc)
Alternate title:
Six
raw
materials
that
shape
modern
civilization
6
raw
materials
that
shape
modern
civilization
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
viii, 500 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-470) and index.
Summary:
"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. 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 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 embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of
modern
life on Earth -- traveling 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. Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn
raw
materials
into things of wonder. This is the story of human
civilization
from an entirely new the ground up."--Publisher.
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