Carbon: A Biography

by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as anything other than the villain of our fossil-based economy, feeding an addiction which is driving dangerous levels of consumption and international conflict...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509559205
• ISBN13: 9781509559206
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"