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100 1  Ennos, Roland,|eauthor. 
245 14 The age of wood :|bour most useful material and the 
       construction of civilization /|cRoland Ennos. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bScribner,|c2020. 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
650  0 Wood. 
650  0 Trees. 
650  0 Woodwork|xHistory. 
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