EAN: 9780753559154

MATERIAL WORLD - ED CONWAY GEBUNDEN

**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as
a Book of the Year by THE TIMES  FINANCIAL TIMES  ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BBC RADIO 4 Book
of the Week'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL  author of Prisoners of
Geography 'Lively  rich and exciting... full of surprises' PETER FRANKOPAN  author of The Silk
Roads_____________ Sand  salt  iron  copper  oil and lithium. They built our world  and they
will transform our future. These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They
took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones  build our
homes and offices  and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for
granted. In Material World  Ed Conway travels the globe - from the sweltering depths of the
deepest mine in Europe  to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan  to the eerie green pools
where lithium originates - to uncover a secret world we rarely see. Revealing the true marvel
of these substances  he follows the mind-boggling journeys  miraculous processes and
little-known companies that turn the raw materials we all need into products of astonishing
complexity. As we wrestle with climate change  energy crises and the threat of new global
conflict  Conway shows why these substances matter more than ever before  and how the hidden
battle to control them will shape our geopolitical future. This is the story of civilisation -
our ambitions and glory  innovations and appetites - from a new perspective: literally from the
ground up.

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