The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization - Paperback
by Roland Ennos
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781982114749ISBN-10:1982114746UPC:9781982114749Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Civilization, World, AnthropologySize:8.30 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCP5CA6JE9
A "smart and surprising" (Booklist) "expansive history" (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem--including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires--in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari's Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781982114749ISBN-10:1982114746UPC:9781982114749Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Civilization, World, AnthropologySize:8.30 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCP5CA6JE9
Roland Ennos is a visiting professor of biological sciences at the University of Hull. He is the author of successful textbooks on plants, biomechanics, and statistics, and his popular book Trees, published by the Natural History Museum, is now in its third edition. He is also the author of The Age of Wood and The Science of Spin. He lives in England.
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