Cabinet 32: Fire

by D. Graham Burnett, Thomas Van Leeuwen, Margaret Wertheim, et al.

One of the four classical elements, capable of both remarkable destructive and generative effect, the heat and light product of chemical reactions that we know as fire is one of the baseline phenomena of human experience. Harnessing and controlling fire is perhaps the single most important achievement of the human animal, and its use--from cooking fires that changed diet and hunting patterns of early man to the forges in which the Industrial Revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932698302
• ISBN13: 9781932698305
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cabinet
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.7"