"It's an entertaining little book....After reading The Secret Life of Dust, the fluff in your vacuum cleaner will never look quite the same again". New Scientist

"Can the ordinary subject of dust lead to discussions on planetary evolution, allergies, lung disease, dinosaurs, and pollution? Holmes...enthusiastically shows that it can, covering these areas and others in her enjoyable new book....Out to communicate straight facts and science, she considers technical points in language that is clear and comprehensible even for those lacking a science background....Strongly recommended for all popular science collections." Michael D. Cramer, Library Journal

"To document the surprising powers of dust, Holmes has burrowed deep into a dozen disciplines, so turning a substance that we normally just sneeze at into a mysterious and fascinating force....[T]he same investigation that unravels dust's ancient riddles also delivers a big modern warning: human activity is making dust more lethal than ever before. The controversy over how to deal with this growing health threat will keep this book passing from hand to hand, ensuring that for all it has to teach about dust, this volume will collect none of it on the library shelf." Bryce Christensen, Booklist

An armchair expedition that takes readers from the first moments of the Big Bang to the story of the birth of Earth then all around the planet, in order to introduce the science of dust and the many roles different types of dust play in the life of our planet.

Hannah Holmes (Portland, ME) is a science and natural history writer for the Discovery Channel Online. Her freelance work has been widely published, appearing in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, National Geographic Traveler, and Escape. Her broadcast work has been featured on Living on Earth and the Discovery Channel Online's Science Live.

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 The World in a Grain of Dust 5
2 Life and Death among the Stars 14
3 A Light and Intriguing Rain of Space Dust 27
4 The (Deadly) Dust of Deserts 43
5 A Steady Upward Rain of Dust 59
6 Dust on the Wind Heeds No Borders 80
7 Did Dust Do In the Ice Age? 98
8 A Steady Downward Rain of Dust 118
9 A Few Unsavory Characters from the Neighborhood 140
10 Microscopic Monsters and Other Indoor Devils 164
11 Dust to Dust 193
Web Sites 205
Bibliography 211
Index 229

 

　

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