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• ISBN: 9780307237446
• ISBN: 0307237443
• Physical Description: xviii, 283 p. ; 25 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, c2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Energy and imagination -- The thinking man's diet -- Diet basics I : nothing but energy -- Diet basics II : all energy is not equal -- Talking thermodynamics, thinking in pictures : entropy -- The thermodynamics of forgetting : the energy in information -- The energy ride : the big picture of energy metabolism -- The age of atoms -- The age of molecules -- From life to fossil fuels -- Keep cool, man, real cool : human evolution and the origins of imagination -- The great energy rule : first came agriculture -- A tale of two cities : wood to burn -- Saving the forests : coal to burn -- And there was light : oil to burn -- Power unleashed : electricity -- First, the bad news -- Now for the good news -- The thinking man's energy diet.

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Renewable energy sources > United States.