Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World jumper Over one hundred and fifty

Over one hundred and fifty stunning colour illustrations have been specially commissioned for this purpose to help the reader understand what have become popular mythic images of our century

the properties of the Moon

selfhood and politics moving from Europe to influence the rest of the world

a black taxi

Many more historic London landmarks along the River Thames

Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World jumper Over one hundred and fiftyAll of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather and human history and culture.