Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places by Bill Streever (Author). aMelting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that in the moment's world is getting hotter. However while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really perceive heat?
A bestselling scientist and nature author who goes to any extreme to uncover the solutions, Invoice Streever units off to search out out what heat actually means. Let him be your guide and you'll fire walk across hot coals and sweat it out in Demise Valley, expertise intense fever and fire, learn concerning the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and discover thermonuclear weapons and the most well liked second of all time-the massive bang.
Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing prose, HEAT is an adventurous private narrative that leaves readers with a brand new vision of an on a regular basis expertise-how warmth works, its history, and its relationship to each day life.
When you love non-fiction widespread science books, this is a wonderful choice. Additionally, if you have learn his book "Chilly" you will have to read this one, too.
The author has a writing style which may be very ADD (consideration-deficit) in that he hops around from whatever he is considering in THIS second to no matter he is pondering NEXT, nevertheless it actually works. He has taken on a HUGE topic, that covers everything from campfires and deserts in the history of fossil fuels and volcanoes and even fire walking. This was especially fascinating as a result of I actually walked on hearth back within the 1980's, so I was interested to see his take on the phenomenon.
Associate with him in his travels around the globe to explore the whole topic of "The Science of Scorching Things and the History of the People Who Make Them."
I completely love this book. It engages readers each step of the way. It is troublesome to place down because the author takes you to expertise strolling on scorching coals to the everyday cooking , and use of heat.
Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
Bill Streever (Author)
368 pages
Little, Brown and Company (January 15, 2013)
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