Mission: Planet Earth: Our World and Its Climate--and How Humans Are Changing Them

by Sally Ride

Other authorsTam O'Shaughnessy
Paper Book, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

551.6

Collection

Publication

Flash Point (2009), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 80 pages

Description

Beginning with Sally Ride's unique, astronaut's-eye view of Earth's fragile atmosphere, "Mission: Planet Earth" describes how water, air, and other climate systems shape our world, and how a disruption in one part of the system can spread through the entire planet. Features helpful diagrams and stunning photographs.

Awards

Green Earth Book Award (Honor — Nonfiction — 2010)

Language

Original publication date

2009

Physical description

80 p.; 9.34 inches

ISBN

1596433108 / 9781596433106
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