Coal - $10.35 - Freese, Barbara - 9780142000984

Coal
A Human History
Freese, Barbara
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as the best stone in Britain by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, expanded frontiers, and sparked social movements, and still powers our electric grid. Yet coals world-changing power has come at a tremendous price, including centuries of blackening our skies and lungsand now the dangerous warming of our global climate. Ranging from the great stinking fogs of London to the rat-infested coal mines of Pennsylvania, from the impoverished slums of Manchester to the toxic streets of Beijing, Coal is a captivating narrative about an ordinary substance with an extraordinary impact on human civilization.

AUTHOR BIO
Barbara Freese, an assistant attorney general of Minnesota for more than twelve years, helped enforce her states air pollution laws and along the way became fascinated by coal.

BOOK REVIEWS
Coal, to borrow a phrase, is king. (The New York Times Book Review) An enthralling journey, across time and across continents. (Howard Zinn, author of A Peoples History of the United States)

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0142000981
ISBN(13-digit): 9780142000984
Dewey Decimal: 553.2/4/09
Library of Congress: bl2004118158
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 320
Paper Weight (lb): 0.44 lb

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