Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles

Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planet

Dust 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 twenty-first. Dust: Th...