(Download) [Boeke] Energy: A Human History
By Richard Rhodes
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the
fascinating history behind energy transitions over time?wood to coal to oil to
electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and
failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy
challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity
itself. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as
we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back
on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I,
King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry
Ford. In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each
breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam
engine, from
