Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places - Softcover

Streever, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316105325 ISBN 13: 9780316105323

Verlag: Back Bay Books, 2013

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Thoroughly entertaining...Streever operates in some of the same territory as Mary Roach and Bill Bryson: taking on big, serious topics, and making them entertaining without making them trivial. (San Francisco Chronicle)

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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.

A scientist and bestselling nature writer who will go to any extreme to satisfy his curiosity, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and you'll firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermonuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time -- the Big Bang.

Melting glaciers, warming oceans, forest fires, droughts -- it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat?

Written in Streever's signature crisp and entertaining prose, HEAT is an adventurous personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience -- how heat works, its history, and its relationship to daily life.

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• Verlag: Back Bay Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0316105325
• ISBN 13: 9780316105323
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385