Spinning Magnet - The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It

This history of electromagnetism predicts the eventual movement towards the Earth's poles switching places and the catastrophic results in store, with anecdotal attention to the heroic discoveries and lone geniuses that have contributed to this knowledge.

About the author

An award-winning journalist, Alanna Lentin is the author of Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots, which has won international acclaim and published in the US, Canada and the UK (Transworld).

Summary

The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earth’s poles will switch places – with potentially catastrophic results

Product details

• Authors: Alanna Mitchell, Mitchell Alanna
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781786074249
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-424-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism