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The World in a Grain
Vince Bizer is a journalist and the author of The World in a Grain. His book tells the story of sand and how it transformed civilization. We have been building cities at such a pace that we are actually starting to run out of sand, he says. For things like concrete, sand from the Sahara isn't going to cut it because it's the wrong shape.
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