Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Format: Book Author: Ennos, Roland, author. Title: The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos. Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, 2020. ©2020 Description: xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: A scholarly and scientific examination of the unrecognized role of trees in the planet's ecosystem reveals wood's unexpected influence on human evolution, civilization, and the global economy. Subjects: Wood. Trees. Woodwork -- History. Building, Wooden -- History. Other Title: Age of wood : mankind's most useful material and the construction of civilization Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index. Contents: Prologue: The road to nowhere -- Wood and human evolution. Our arboreal inheritance -- Coming down from the trees -- Losing our hair -- Tooling up -- Building civilization. Clearing the forest -- Melting and smelting -- Carving our communities -- Supplying life's luxuries -- Supporting our pretensions -- Limiting our outlook -- Wood in the industrial era. Replacing firewood and charcoal -- Wood in the nineteenth century -- Wood in the modern world -- Facing the consequences. Assessing our impact -- Mending our strained relationship. ISBN: 9781982114732 1982114738 9781982114732 1982114738 Other Number: 1222909798 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 879777 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: 582.16 Ennos Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
