Energy : a human history
Record details
- ISBN: 1501105353
- ISBN: 9781501105357
- ISBN: 9781501105371
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Physical Description:
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regular print
xiv, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-397) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. No Wood, No Kingdom -- 2. Raising Water by Fire -- 3. Giant with One Idea -- 4. To Make for All the World -- 5. Catch Me Who Can -- 6. Unconquered Steam! -- 7. Rushlight to Gaslight -- 8. Pursuing Leviathan -- 9. Burning Fluids -- 10. Wild Animals -- 11. Great Forces of Nature -- 12. Cadence of Water -- 13. Enormous Yellow Cheese -- 14. Pillars of Black Cloud -- 15. Gift of God -- 16. One-Armed Men Doing Welding -- 17. Full Power in Fifty-Seven -- 18. Affection from the Smog -- 19. Dark Age to Come -- 20. All Aboard. |
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Genre: | Nonfiction. History. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Sechelt Public Library | 333.7909 RHOD (Text) | 33260100013607 | Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public televisionâs Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website RichardRhodes.com.
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com