TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future” written by Ed Conway has been released in the bookstores across the country.

Yasamin Moshref has translated the book and Qoqnoos Publishing House has brought it out in 520 pages, ILNA reported.

Originally published in 2023, “Material World” is a celebration of the humans and human networks, the miraculous processes and little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new from the ground up.

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the hidden battle to control them will determine our future.

The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grid, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones, and though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls “the ethereal world”—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.

In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuel, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in “Material World,” Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs—from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe, to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan, to the eerie green pools where lithium originates—to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth.

Edmund Conway, 46, is an English journalist who is the Economics Editor of Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Group. 

He is a former correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper and the Economics Editor of The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph newspapers.

Conway is the author of “50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know,” first published in September 2009. The book has been translated into 13 languages.

In 2023, he published “Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future,” which was shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award that year. In 2024, “Material World” was also shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize.

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