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Heat, January 2013
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Cold, July 2010
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Cold, August 2009
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Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
Little, Brown, and Co.
January 2013
On Sale: January 15, 2013
368 pages ISBN: 0316105333 EAN: 9780316105330 Kindle: B007ZFIOJ2 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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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