Fossil Fuels: 12 (Energy Forever?) - Tapa dura

Giving information about the energy around us, this book on fossil fuels looks at how we burn coal, oil and gas to create electricity. It shows where we can look for new sources of energy and how we can limit the damage to the environment. Case studies focus on specific examples. Fact boxes provide information and statistics. Both the modern and industrial world are used as examples.

Ian Graham has written more than one hundred non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles on video, computers, electronics and communications. After taking a degree in applied physics and a post-graduate diploma in journalism at the City University, London, he worked for three years as an editor in consumer electronics magazines before turning freelance. His book 'How it works: Helicopters' received a commendation in that year's Science Book Prizes and he has also had books selected as 'Books for the Teen Age' by the US Library of Congress.