Here comes the sun : how it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are / Steve Jones.
Here comes the sun : how it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are / Steve Jones.
Here comes the sun : how it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are / Steve Jones.
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Publisher
London : Little, Brown, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2019/4627
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Language
English
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Physical content
360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Preface: The cry of the East wind -- 1. Empire of the sun -- 2. Keep out of the kitchen -- 3. An ocean of anomalies -- 4. No accounting for taste -- 5. The scourge of the shadows -- 6. The chain of the hours -- 7. Between dog and wolf -- Envoi: Fossil sunshine.
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Publisher
London : Little, Brown, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
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 r...
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Here comes the sun : how it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are / Steve Jones.
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ebook version : 9781408711293
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G 2019/4627
Record Identifier
74VKV5wbxJyM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5wbxJyM
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ISBN
9781408711316
1408711311
DDC
523.7
MMS ID
991024266012902626
