On Yorkshire's gradually-crumbling mud cliffs sits an Edwardian seaside house. In the bathroom, Jacob and Ella hide from their parents' passionate arguments by playing the "Underwater Breathing" game--until the day Jacob wakes to find his mother and sister gone. Years later, the sea's creeping closer, ...
A serious guide to the climate crisis with a humorous twist. The book includes rigorous scientific details to explain the issues that we face, while brightening the mood with humorous quotes, photos and illustrations.
'... a chill-cabinet of curiosities: hot stuff, and deeply cool ...'
Heat and fire have been at humanity's command for at least 100,000 years, but we've been in control of the cold for barely one hundred. Why it took so long is quite a story. Figuring out the cold would involve some gnomes, a fake perpetual ...