Heat

Adventures in the World's Fiery Places

By Bill Streever (Hardcover Book, 2013)

An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.

Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat?

A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and you'll firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermonuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time-the big bang.

Written in Streever's signature spare and refreshing prose, HEAT is an adventurous personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its relationship to daily life.

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- Format: Hardcover Book
- Price: $26.99 US/$29.99 CAN
- ISBN-13: 9780316105330
- On Sale Date: 01/15/2013
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Bill Streever is the author of the national bestseller, Cold. He chairs the North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel in Alaska and serves on many related committees, including a climate change advisory panel. A biologist, he lives with his son in Anchorage, where he hikes, bikes, camps, scuba dives, and cross country skies, as often as the weather allows.

PRAISE FOR COLD:

"Original and organic: it is flinty and tough-minded, with just enough humor glowing around the edges to keep you toasty and dry...Streever's prose does what E. L. Doctorow said good writing is supposed to do, which is to evoke sensation in the reader ... This book is chilling in too many ways to count." (New York Times, Dwight Garner's Top Ten Books of 2009).
PRAISE FOR HEAT:

"An illuminating romp sure to delight connoisseurs of extreme geography and ignite everyone's inner pyromaniac." (David R. Montgomery, author of The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood).