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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ennos, Roland, author.     Subjects     Wood -- History.     Woodwork -- History.     Building, Wooden -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ennos, Roland, author.       by title:      The age of wood : ou...         MARC Display

The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos. by Ennos, Roland, author. New York : Scribner, 2020. Subjects Wood -- History.   Woodwork -- History.   Building, Wooden -- History. ISBN:  9781982114732 (hardcover) : 1982114738 (hardcover) Description:  xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First Scribner hardcover edition. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 620.12 En Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 620.12 Ennos Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 620.12 En Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 620.12 En Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 620.12 En Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 620.12 en Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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