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Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places

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Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places

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.
Country USA
Brand Back Bay Books
Manufacturer Back Bay Books
Binding Paperback
IsAdultProduct 1
ReleaseDate 2013-12-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780316105323

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