Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite For Energy [Illustrated] 0393931536, 9780393931532

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Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite For Energy [Illustrated]
0393931536, 9780393931532

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Alfred W. Crosby

Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title Page
Publisher’s Notice
Also by Alfred W. Crosby
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Epigraphs
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Part I: The Largess of the Sun
Chapter 1: Fire and Cooking
Chapter 2: Agriculture
Chapter 3: The Columbian Exchange
Part II: Fossilized Sunshine
Chapter 4: Coal and Steam
Chapter 5: Oil and the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine)
Chapter 6: Electricity
Part III: Energy at the Turn of the Third Millennium
Chapter 7: Fission
Chapter 8. Fusion
Chapter 9: The Anthropocene
Bibliography
Credits
Index

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