Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planetFour and a half billion years ago, planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next one hundred years, life on Earth would be profoundly changed by heat, drought, fire, and, again, dust. Dust is a legacy of twentieth-century progress and a toxic threat to ...

How I Met You is a wide-ranging collection of award-winning short stories by the celebrated fiction writer Bradley Jay Owens that includes heartfelt stories about coming of age, side-splitting stories about relationships, and penetrating stories about the human drama.

Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planetDust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought. Yet within the next one hundred years, life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought—and that means dust.In this groundbreaking book, Jay Owens argues that dust is a legacy of twentiethcentury progress and a toxic threat to life in the twent...