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How the World Works: Planet Earth

From Molten Rock in Space to the Place We Live

Anne Rooney

9781398800564
208 pages
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Overview

Interest in environmentalism and climate change has risen across the globe.

Written to appeal to the general reader, this book explains where our planet came from, how it developed and where it might be heading. It also suggests some lessons we can learn if we wish to continue living here.

Humans have pondered and probed the history of this planet for hundreds of years, and this is an account of an amazing journey of discovery.

Beautifully illustrated in full color.

Author Bio
Anne Rooney is an award-winning author who has written several bestselling books on history, philosophy and science. She was longlisted for the prestigious Aventis Science Prize in 2004, was shortlisted for the ALCS Educational Writers' Award in 2015 and won the School Library Association Information Book Award in 2018. She has a degree and a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.