Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
Author(s): Bill Streever
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.
General Information
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- : Little, Brown & Company
- : Little, Brown & Company
- : 0.576
- : 01 February 2013
- : United States
- : 01 May 2013
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Bill Streever
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 304
More About The Product
An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.
"In this worthy companion to "Cold", Streever is able to mix the pop science, personal experiences, and historic asides into a fun and informative commentary on a subject that few people think about despite its inherent life and death implications." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Bill Streever is the author of the national bestseller, Cold. He lives in Alaska.
