Helen Czerski Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

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Helen Czerski is a published author.

Born in Manchester, she serves as a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College London.

Working as a physicist, she studies the bubbles that take place underneath breaking waves in an open ocean to understand the effects that they have on weather and climate.

Helen regularly appears on and presents for BBC programs featuring physics, the ocean, and the atmosphere. Some of the most recent series are Colour: The Spectrum of Science, Operation Iceberg, Orbit, Super Senses, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, and programs on bubbles, the sun, and weather.

Helen also serves as a columnist for Focus magazine. She has been shortlisted for PPA columnist of the year in 2014 and has penned various articles for different national newspapers. She resides in London.

Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life is an entertaining introduction to the world of physics.

The author provides the tools that can alter the way we see everything around us by linking ordinary objects and occurrences. These include everything from coffee stains to popcorn popping to fridge magnets as well as extending to large ideas such as climate change, the energy crisis, or innovative medical testing.

The author takes a look at things and help provides answers to questions that might be complicated or vexing. These include wondering how it is that ducks are able to keep their feet warm when they are walking on the ice, why it takes so long for the ketchup to come out of a bottle, why milk when added to tea looks like storm clouds, and more.

In avoid that is engaging, warm, and witty, this author shares all of her knowledge to take the veil of familiarity off from the ordinary.

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works is a 2023 novel from Helen Czerski. This is one scientist’s exploration of the ocean engine, a term for the physics behind the ocean’s systems, as well as why it matters.

All of the oceans on the Earth, reaching from the equator to the poles, are a single engine that is powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of life, water, energy, and raw materials.

In this fascinating book, the oceanographer and physicist Helen Czerski shows the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet. She takes the reader on an adventure that takes them from the bottom of the ocean floor to visit tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed into shallow coastal seas, and Arctic ice floes.

Through different stories about animals, culture, history and more, the author explains a variety of things, such as how water temperature, gravity, salinity, and the movement of the tectonic plates on Earth all are able to interact in a complex dance, supporting life at the smallest scale and the largest at the same time.

From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the ocean by reading the waves, to the permanent residents of the ocean like the Greenland shark who can live for hundreds of years, she introduces the passengers, messengers, and voyagers that rely on interlinked systems of vast currents, invisible ocean walls, and even underwater waterfalls.

More importantly is the fact that the ocean engine has helped us for thousands of years, but now one of the human race’s greatest allies faces an urgent threat. By working to understand how the ocean works and the role that it plays in the global system, we can all learn how to protect this blue machine.

Timely and informative, this book will give the reader a fresh view on what it means to be the citizen of an ocean planet! Pick up a copy for yourself to find out more.