Meie kodune Maa on pidevas muutumises - määratute jõudude toimel teiseneb maapõu ja muutub õhkkond planeedi ümber. Suurepäraselt illustreeritud "Maakera seest ja väljast" tutvustab lugejat asjatundlikult ja lihtsalt selle muutumise mootoriga, loodusjõududega, mis meie planeeti läbi aegade kujundanud on. Mõjuvalt värvikatel ja ideeselgetel raamatulehekülgedel ilmuvad meie ette sündivad mäed, laienevad ookeanid ja rändavad mandrid. "Maakera seest ja väljast" uurib ka ilmakatla keemist ja paljusid suuri looduse mõistatusi virmaliste vehklemisest maa-aluste koskedeni.
Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.