Dedication, Preface, Acknowledgements
PART I: How the World Works
Chapter 1 Energy Balance Sheets
Chapter 4 Cosmic setting: dancing to ancient tunes
PART II: Peering into Time
Chapter 7 The surface of events
PART III: Star Stuff
Chapter 10 Graveyard for asteroids and comets
PART IV: ‘A Warm Little Pond’ ?
Chapter 12: What life is all about
Chapter 13 Genesis: a secular version
Chapter 14 Life’s tender years
PART V: Climate, Mantle and Life
Chapter 15 Earth’s exhaust fumes
Chapter 16 How continents shape climate
Chapter 17 Icehouse and ‘greenhouse’ worlds
Part VI Life’s Ups and Downs
Chapter 18 Life becomes complicated
Chapter 19 Armageddon revisited
Chapter 20 Reaching for new horizons
Part VII: The People’s Planet
Chapter 23 Humans: the emergence of the latest model