Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitche

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Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things

You will never again look disparagingly upon dust.

Our Price: $15.00

By Hannah Holmes (au)
Year: 2001
Pages: 240
Binding Paperback
ISBN 0-471-42635-0

Product Code: 1422355705

Description

You will never again look disparagingly upon dust. Science & natural history writer Hannah Holmes takes a seemingly mundane subject & trumpets its significance in our lives not only on Earth, but in the Heavens. She provides the reader a fascinating journey into the unseen flecks that underpin our world & those beyond. Chapters: The World in a Grain of Dust; Life & Death among the Stars; A Light & Intriguing Rain of Space Dust; The (Deadly) Dust of Deserts; A Steady Upward Rain of Dust; Dust on the Wind Heeds No Borders; Did Dust Do in the Ice Age? A Steady Downward Rain of Dust; A Few Unsavory Characters from the Neighborhood; Microscopic Monsters & Other Indoor Devils; & Dust to Dust. Also includes Web Sites & a Bibliography.

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