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Detonation: Explosives, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World (Cape Books) Stephen R. BowenHistorical150k Wordscompleted A history of explosives, but also a history of human nature full of contradictions and struggles, selected books from Scientific American Book Club and History Book Club. At the beginning of civilization, humans have been eager to harness the destructive power of fire, but it was not until the 1860s that humans truly entered the age of explosives. Alfred Nobel relied on his extraordinary intuition to bring about earth-shaking changes to the world through the development of dynamite. Explosives h 252Reads9.3Score—Shelves