Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization - Tapa blanda

Conway, Ed

 
9780593467428: Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0593467426 ISBN 13: 9780593467428
Editorial: Vintage, 2025

Sinopsis

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium.

These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations and fed our ingenuity and our 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 grid, 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 tometal. 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 ofthe 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 perspective: the ground up.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

ED CONWAY is economics and data editor of Sky News and a columnist for the Times (London). He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including most recently the 2018 Wincott Foundation Journalist of the Year Award. He lives in London.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Vintage
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0593467426
ISBN 13 
9780593467428
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
512
Contacto del fabricante
EDITIONS GALLIMARD
ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it

Via Verdi, 8.
Assago Milano
20090
Italia

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780753559178: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  075355917X ISBN 13:  9780753559178
Editorial: WH Allen, 2024
Tapa blanda