Infrastructure
Subtitle: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: September 18, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780393329599
First sentence: THE RAW MATERIALS FOR BUILDING a civilization are mainly things we dig up out of the ground: fuels such as coal, uranium, and petroleum; the ores of iron, copper, aluminum, and dozens of other metals; stone, sand, and clay for building; and a miscellany of other minerals such as sulfur and phosphates.