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The world in a grain : the story of sand and how it transformed civilization /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beiser, Vince, 1965- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, [2018]
Subjects:
Sand.
Technology and civilization.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The most important solid substance on Earth
  • Part I. How sand built the twentieth century's industrialized world
  • The skeleton of cities
  • Paved with good intentions
  • The thing that lets us see everything
  • Part II. How sand is building the twenty-first century's globalized, digitized world
  • High tech, high purity
  • Fracking facilitator
  • Miami Beach-less
  • Man-made lands
  • Desert war
  • Concrete conquers the city
  • Beyond sand.