The substance of civilization : materials and human history from the stone age to the age of silicon
Sass, "shows that the story of human civilization can be read mmost deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused."
Print Book, English, ©1998
Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Little, Brown and Co., New York, ©1998
291 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
9781559703710, 1559703717
37843839
The ages of stone and clay
The age of metals : a primer
Copper and bronze
Gold, silver, and the rise of empires
The age of iron
A quick history of glass
Building for the ages
Innovations from the East
Stoking the furnance of capitalism
The birth of modern metals
Steel : master of them all
Exploding billiard balls and other polymers
Diamond : the superlative substance
Composites : the lesson of nature
The age of silicon