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Energy, the great driver : seven revolutions and the challenges of climate change / R. Gareth Wyn Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Gareth Wyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy development--History.
- Energy development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 199 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Energy use lies at the core of all biological and human activity. Unless we understand ours and the rest of natural world's relationship with energy, we are doomed to disaster.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue
- Chapter I Introduction
- Chapter II The Mysterious Origins of Life
- Chapter III Harvesting the Sun
- Chapter IV A Structural Revolution - Complex Cells
- Chapter V The Hominid Factor
- Chapter VI 'Food Glorious Food'?
- Chapter VII Fossil Fuels - An Energy Bonanza
- Chapter VIII The Homeostatic Hierarchy
- Chapter IX Emergent Patterns
- Chapter X The Gathering Storm - Greenhouse Gases: The Effluence of Affluence
- Chapter XI On Human Behaviour and Our Social and Physical Constructs
- Chapter XII Denouement?
- Chapter XIII The Human Factor
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Backcover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78683-424-3
- OCLC:
- 1125111645
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