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The spinning world

You may think our world, the earth, is standing still. But it isn't. The earth is spinning around and around, like a huge top. Push a stick through a ball of clay and then twirl the stick. The clay...

An island in space

We live on an island. An island in space! An island is a piece of land with water all around it. The earth is a giant ball of rock and metal with space all around it. A ball of rock and metal such...

World and Space

The volume explores earth—what it is, how it came to be, how it makes life possible; weather; planets, stars, galaxies; maps, globes, compasses; and the work of people who study the world and space.