{"product_id":"material-world-the-six-raw-materials-that-shape-modern-civilization-paperback","title":"Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Conway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE - AN \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future.\u003cbr\u003e The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grid, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information--what Ed Conway calls \"the ethereal world\"--our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.\u003cbr\u003e In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood tometal. And in \u003ci\u003eMaterial World\u003c\/i\u003e, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth--traveling from the sweltering depths ofthe deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Material World\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground up.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eED CONWAY is economics and data editor of \u003ci\u003eSky News \u003c\/i\u003eand a columnist for the\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London). He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including most recently the 2018 Wincott Foundation Journalist of the Year Award. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 7.95 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45103214952527,"sku":"9780593467428","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/yv353xrv09780593467428.webp?v=1776370373","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/material-world-the-six-raw-materials-that-shape-modern-civilization-paperback","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}