PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 7
PREFACE TO THE PELICAN EDITION 9
PART Ⅰ GROWTH OF POWER 11
1 Dominion over Matter through Energy 13
2 Machines in the Pre-Metrical Age 22
3 Inanimate Driving Power － the Development of Steam 42
4 World Reserves of Available Energy 61
5 Nuclear Energy 71
6 Towards Tektopia － The Conflict between Inanimate and Animate Prime Movers 80
7 Towards Tektopia － A Survey of Energy Users in the Modern World 95
8 Towards Tektopia － Man and Energy in War 111
9 Escape from Tektopia 120
10 The Second Law of Thermodynamics as an Engineering Rule 124
PART Ⅱ GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE 133
11 The Impact of Thermodynamics on Wider Problems 135
12 Entropy as a Guide to the Trend of Molecular Processes 146
13 Heat Death and Heat Birth of the Observable World 160
14 Thermodynamics and Life 166
15 Thermodynamic Laws and Cognition 183
16 Man in Two Realms of Cognition 191
APPENDIX Ⅰ．The Forms of Energy 197
APPENDIX Ⅱ．The Laws of Thermodynamics 209
REFERENCES 211
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 217
INDEX 219