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Name: Fred Hogge - Of Ice and Men - How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity (epub)
Format: epub
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Title: Of Ice and Men
Author: Fred Hogge
Language: angielski
Year: 2022
Subjects: History, Science, Nonfiction
Publisher: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 9780316213103
Total pages: 419 str.

An exploration of humanity's relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men reminds us that only by understanding this unique substance can we save the ice on our planet-and perhaps ourselves.
Ice tells a story. It writes it in rock. It lays it down, snowfall by snowfall at the ends of the earth where we may read it like the rings on a tree. It tells our planet's geological and climatological tale.

Ice tells another story too: a story about us. It is a tale packed with swash-buckling adventure and improbable invention, peopled with driven, eccentric, often brilliant characters. It tells how our species has used ice to reshape the world according to our needs and our desires: how we have survived it, harvested it, traded it, bent science to our will to make it-and how in doing so we have created globe-spanning infrastructures that are entirely dependent upon it.

And even after we have done all that, we take...