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Energy: A Human History [Audiobook] download free by Professor Richard Rhodes

Energy: A Human History Audiobook download free by Professor Richard Rhodes
  • Listen audiobook: Energy: A Human History
  • Author: Professor Richard Rhodes
  • Release date: 2018/5/7
  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
  • ISBN: 9781501105357
  • Rating: 9.29 of 10
  • Votes: 405
  • Review by: Heidi Gentry
  • Review rating: 7.59 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/25
  • Duration: 5H56M10S in 256 kbps (96 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-04
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV (compression TAR.XZ, ZIP, LZO, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 480
  • Includes a PDF summary of 51 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 38M47S (10.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time-wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes's singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Energy Industries & Utilities, History Of Science, Physics Books, History Of Engineering & Technology, Energy Technology & Engineering, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, Electrical Engineering, Power Generation & Distribution, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
  • Download servers: Torrent, 4Shared, Hotfile, Dropbox, ZendTo. Compressed in TAR.XZ, ZIP, LZO, RAR
  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 29.54 USD
  • Dimensions: 163x231x41mm
  • Weight: 635g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New York, United States

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