Dust : the modern world in a trillion particles
Owens, Jay2023
Book
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next 100 years, human life on swathes of the Earth's surface will end in a haze of heat, drought, and, again, dust. Dust is a legacy of 20th-century progress and a profound threat to life in the 21st century. And yet dust is something we hardly ever consider - it is so small and so mundane as to be beyond the threshold of thought. This book sparks curiosity and corrects that oversight.
Main title:
Dust : the modern world in a trillion particles / Jay Owens.
Author:
Owens, Jay, author
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.
Collation:
vii, 392 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781529362640 (hbk)
Dewey class:
304.28551.5113 OWE551.5113
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3613438