TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beiser,Vince
TI  - The world in a grain: the story of sand and how it transformed civilization 
SN  - 9780399576423
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Sand
KW  - Technology and civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index; The most important solid substance on Earth -- Part I. How sand built the twentieth century's industrialized world -- The skeleton of cities -- Paved with good intentions -- The thing that lets us see everything -- Part II. How sand is building the twenty-first century's globalized, digitized world -- High tech, high purity -- Fracking facilitator -- Miami Beach-less -- Man-made lands -- Desert war -- Concrete conquers the city -- Beyond sand
ER  -