Here comes the sun : how it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are /
Jones, Steve, 1944-
Here comes the sun : how it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are / Steve Jones. - 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 20 cm.
Originally published: Little, Brown, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for the ancients was the seat of divine authority. In Here Comes the Sun, Steve Jones shows how life on Earth is ruled by our nearest star. It is filled with unexpected connections; between the need to stay cool and man's ability to stand upright, between the power of memory and the onset of darkness, between the flow of solar energy through the plants and animals and of wealth through society, and between Joseph Goebbel's 1938 scheme to make Edinburgh the summer capital of a defeated Britain and the widening gap in the life expectancy of Scottish men compared to that of other European men brought on by that nation's cloudy climate.
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Global warming.
Sun.
Earth (Planet)
Here comes the sun : how it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are / Steve Jones. - 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 20 cm.
Originally published: Little, Brown, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for the ancients was the seat of divine authority. In Here Comes the Sun, Steve Jones shows how life on Earth is ruled by our nearest star. It is filled with unexpected connections; between the need to stay cool and man's ability to stand upright, between the power of memory and the onset of darkness, between the flow of solar energy through the plants and animals and of wealth through society, and between Joseph Goebbel's 1938 scheme to make Edinburgh the summer capital of a defeated Britain and the widening gap in the life expectancy of Scottish men compared to that of other European men brought on by that nation's cloudy climate.
9780349143378 0349143374
GBC050711 bnb
019765233 Uk
Global warming.
Sun.
Earth (Planet)