Melissa McCarthy investigates a fundamental aspect of the human condition: our state of being between life and death

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combining ideas from both ancient and modern sources to explore life's most prominent and provocative theme

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Rocks - A Very Short Introduction collage Melissa McCarthy investigates a fundamentalRocks underpin our lives: they make up the solid structure of the Earth. We live on the rocky surface of the planet; grow our food on weathered debris derived from rocks; and we obtain nearly all of the raw materials with which we founded our civilization from rocks. Rocks: A Very Short Introduction looks at the nature and variety of rocks and the processes by which they are formed. It considers what we know about the deep rocks of the mantle and