BensaudeVincent, Bernadette
Carbon: A Biography
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509559206
- author:
- BensaudeVincent, Bernadette
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 21.8 x 14.7 x 3.1 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Science
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Carbon: A Biography by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve is a major new history that challenges our understanding of this omnipresent element. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has many personas in nature and human life, from its role in climate change to its presence in the chemical basis of all known life. This biography transgresses the boundaries between chemical and social existence, revealing the great diversity of carbon's modes of existence. From its applications in jewellery and heating to its underpinning developments in metallurgy, textiles, pharmaceuticals, electronics, nanoscience, and green technologies, carbon has a long and prestigious CV that extends far beyond the burning of fossil fuels. By exploring the complex relationships between nature and culture, this book forces us to abandon our simplified image of carbon as the anti-hero of human civilization. Instead, it enables us to see the great diversity of carbon's modes of existence, and to understand its impact on countless histories and adventures through time.
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