Material World (The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization)

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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. ā€¢ Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

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 cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of informationā€”what Ed Conway calls ā€œthe ethereal worldā€ā€”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 epicĀ journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earthā€”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 turnĀ raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground up.

This book title, Material World (The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization), ISBN: 9780593534342, by Ed Conway, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (November 7, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Ed Conway
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
512
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (November 7, 2023)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780593534342
ISBN-10:
0593534344
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26.4oz
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6.56" x 9.53" x 1.52"
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