A new, easy-to-read primer for the student and layperson by Ecologist Steven Apfelbaum and illustrated by Rob Dunlavey explores the value of soil to all life on Earth.Today, with growing concern for dwindling resources, there is a new sense of urgency to better understand and care for soil (what many of us misguidedly call “dirt”) and our very real connection to it. In fact, “our lives may depend on it.“Written for high school and older students, and lay, business, and professional audiences, “