The Resource Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places, Bill Streever
Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places, Bill Streever
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The item Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places, Bill Streever represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places, Bill Streever represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
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- "An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, 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? A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, 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. Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing 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"--
- "A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, 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 spare and refreshing prose, HEAT is an a compulsively readable personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its complete connection to daily life"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xvii, 349 pages
- Contents
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- A note on degrees Fahrenheit
- A candle's flame
- Raving thirst
- Unmanaged fire
- Cooked
- My children eat coal
- Rock oil
- Steaming mountains
- Boom
- The top of the thermometer
- Isbn
- 9780316105330
- Label
- Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places
- Title
- Heat
- Title remainder
- adventures in the world's fiery places
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill Streever
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, 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? A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, 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. Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing 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"--
- "A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, 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 spare and refreshing prose, HEAT is an a compulsively readable personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its complete connection to daily life"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Streever, Bill
- Dewey number
- 551.41/5
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GB611
- LC item number
- .S77 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Arid regions
- Heat
- Label
- Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places, Bill Streever
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-332) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A note on degrees Fahrenheit -- A candle's flame -- Raving thirst -- Unmanaged fire -- Cooked -- My children eat coal -- Rock oil -- Steaming mountains -- Boom -- The top of the thermometer
- Control code
- ocn793579329
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xvii, 349 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316105330
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2012020861
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Heat : adventures in the world's fiery places, Bill Streever
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-332) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A note on degrees Fahrenheit -- A candle's flame -- Raving thirst -- Unmanaged fire -- Cooked -- My children eat coal -- Rock oil -- Steaming mountains -- Boom -- The top of the thermometer
- Control code
- ocn793579329
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- xvii, 349 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316105330
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2012020861
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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