Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy by Alfred W. Crosby

Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy

Alfred W. Crosby

208 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative medium-paced
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We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started burning in the Paleolithic, humankind broadened the exploitation of food and initiated an avalanche of ...

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