Americas Wooden Age

Author : Brooke Hindle
Publisher : Sleepy Hollow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Wooden Age written by Brooke Hindle and published by Sleepy Hollow Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest settlements until the mid 19th century, Americans used wood, their most abundant national resource, as building material, fuel, and as a raw material for processed chemicals. This book probes the versatility of wood and its significance for American national growth.

Author : Paul B. Kebabian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools and Technologies written by Paul B. Kebabian and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth about El Salvador written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roland Ennos
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982114754
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Wood written by Roland Ennos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “smart and surprising” (Booklist) “expansive history” (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires—in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt. As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. But how did the descendants of small primates manage to walk upright, become top predators, and populate the world? How were humans able to develop civilizations and produce a globalized economy? Now, in The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos shows for the first time that the key to our success has been our relationship with wood. “A lively history of biology, mechanics, and culture that stretches back 60 million years” (Nature) The Age of Wood reinterprets human history and shows how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has profoundly shaped our bodies and minds, societies, and lives. Ennos takes us on a sweeping journey from Southeast Asia and West Africa where great apes swing among the trees, build nests, and fashion tools; to East Africa where hunter gatherers collected their food; to the structural design of wooden temples in China and Japan; and to Northern England, where archaeologists trace how coal enabled humans to build an industrial world. Addressing the effects of industrialization—including the use of fossil fuels and other energy-intensive materials to replace timber—The Age of Wood not only shows the essential role that trees play in the history and evolution of human existence, but also argues that for the benefit of our planet we must return to more traditional ways of growing, using, and understanding trees. A brilliant blend of recent research and existing scientific knowledge, this is an “excellent, thorough history in an age of our increasingly fraught relationships with natural resources” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Author : Roland Ennos
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008318871
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wood Age written by Roland Ennos and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brooke Hindle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Culture of the Wooden Age written by Brooke Hindle and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten essays examine the influence of wood technology upon development of America's material environment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : P. B. Kebabian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools and Technologies written by P. B. Kebabian and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Age of Wood written by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book Age of Wood written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788543491
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museum of the Wood Age written by Max Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood – the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species. Beginning with an investigation of the material properties of various species of wood, The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of six basic devices – wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley – and in so doing reveals the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.