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Material World
By Ed Conway
Six essential materials reveal how civilisation was built and why control of them will shape the future.
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Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium sit at the centre of human progress. Ed Conway follows these materials from mines and factories to the industrial processes that transform them into the products modern life depends on.
The book examines how these substances shaped human development and why they remain central to climate change, energy security and global competition. It offers a broad account of technology, history and geopolitics from the ground up.
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