TY  - BOOK
AU  - Basile,Salvatore
TI  - Cool: how air conditioning changed everything 
SN  - 9780823261789
AV  - TH7687 .C665 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Air conditioning
KW  - Efficiency
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - It's July and it's 94 degrees Fahrenheit. What do you do? Blast the air conditioning. It's a modern miracle of convenience and cooling. How did it happen? Sal Basile's narrative history traces the origins one of the machines we take for granted. It's a contraption that makes the lists of ""Greatest Inventions Ever""; at the same time, it's accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows. It has saved countless lives . . . while causing countless deaths. Most of us a
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