The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Hispanic I've lived in a gilded

I've lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas's golden castle

A master of the form at his finest

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Colorful photographs and historic images highlight important events and scientific fact as readers discover Newton and his many breakthroughs

When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths

The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Hispanic I've lived in a gildedA smart and surprising (Booklist) expansive history (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystemincluding human evolution and the rise and fall of empiresin the bestselling tradition of Yuval Hararis Sapiens and Mark Kurlanskys Salt. As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. But how did the descendants of small primates manage