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Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places Hardcover - 2013

by Bill Streever


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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, 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? 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. Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing prose, Heat is an adventurous personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its relationship to daily life.

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  • Title Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
  • Author Bill Streever
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2013-01
  • ISBN 9780316105330 / 0316105333
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.75 x 6.5 x 1.25 in (24.77 x 16.51 x 3.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Heat, Arid regions - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012020861
  • Dewey Decimal Code 551.415

About the author

Bill Streever is the bestselling and award-winning author of And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind , Cold, and Heat. As a biologist, he has worked on issues ranging from climate change to the restoration of Arctic tundra to underwater noise to the evolution of cave crayfish. With his wife and co-captain, he splits his time between Alaska and their cruising sailboat, currently in Central America.
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