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[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]
Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability
by Saleem H. Ali
Columbia University Press
2023. 320 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-20448-4
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Reviewed by Andrew Perchard (University of Otago)
Saleem Ali takes aluminum as the subject of his book, Soil to Foil. Ali

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