{"product_id":"the-world-beneath-our-feet-isbn-9780593978320","title":"The World Beneath Our Feet","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vivid tour into the subterranean that encourages us to look downwards, revealing how the earth's most biodiverse frontier sustains all life above the soil surface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ground beneath us hums with a staggering abundance of winding roots, interconnecting fungal networks, wriggling creatures, and mind-blowing microbial life. This glittering ecosystem is the single most biodiverse habitat on the planet. Half of all the Earth's species exist underfoot; decaying matter is transformed into new birth; and just a handful of soil can contain an entire world. Without soil, there would be no life as we know it—and yet we rarely take the time to know the trillions of lives happening below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The World Beneath Our Feet\u003c\/i\u003e, soil ecologist Frank Ashwood dives deep into this precious ecosystem, spanning the globe from the frozen landscape of Greenland to the black soil deposits of the Amazon, while also examining the jaw-dropping evolutionary adaptations that make lives very alien from our own possible. Unearthing soil layers one at a time, Ashwood reveals every sublayer to be a distinct macrocosm, teeming with plants and insects essential to our planet's wellbeing. By interviewing microbiologists and entomologists, as well as by guiding us into his own expert research, Ashwood shows us how life at a microscopic scale impacts us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerfully illuminating the dark depths of the earth, and accompanied by the author's own up-close photography, which magnifies and reveals creatures only millimeters long, \u003ci\u003eThe World Beneath Our Feet \u003c\/i\u003eopens our eyes to the hidden and wondrous world of soil—perhaps the greatest unexplored frontier on our planet.\u003cb\u003eFrank Ashwood \u003c\/b\u003eis a soil ecologist who studies biological diversity and forest soil sustainability, with a PhD in environmental management. Based in New Zealand, his macrophotography of microorganisms has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. This is his first book.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233770582245,"sku":"NP9780593978320","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593978320.jpg?v=1773181179","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-world-beneath-our-feet-isbn-9780593978320","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}