Rossotti, Hazel — Fire
Oxford, New York, Tokyo : Oxford University Press 1993. 24 cm. X, 288 p. Hardcover with dust jacket. in very good shape. Numerous illustrations in black and white and 32 plates in colour. A lively, non-mathematical approach about fire: technology, symbolism, ecology, science, hazard.. , . "Contents: Fire, the phenomenon (what is fire?); Fire for comfort (heating, lighting); Fire for use (cooking, destruction, movement, special effects); Fire as a hazard (mankind versus fire: weapons); Fire for contemplations (gods, thinkers).".