Record
ETO Record Number |
168 |
Author |
Crosby, Alfred W. |
Title |
Children of the sun: a history of humanity's unappeasable appetite for energy |
Call Number |
TJ163.2 .C78 2006 333.79 Crosby |
ISBN |
0393059359 (hardcover) |
Format |
Book |
Location Published |
New York |
Publisher |
W. W. Norton |
Date of Publication |
2006 |
Notes |
Table of Contents: Part I. The Largess Of The Sun 1. Fire and Cooking 2. Agriculture 3. The Columbian Exchange Part II. Fossilized Sunshine 4. Coal and Steam 5. Oil and the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) 6. Electricity Part III. Energy at the Turn of the Third Millennium 7. Fission 8. Fusion 9. The Anthropocene Bibliography Index |
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