What is really going on, with everything? What are we, why are we here, what does it all mean? Murray Tulett believes that answers to these questions will not leap at us out of a vacuum. The issue needs background, it needs the broadest possible context, and given these, answers may even become obvious. In this book, Tulett presents an overarching explanation of the universe and everything in it including planet Earth and the human world. Drawn into the story and woven together is a wide range of subject material from the fields of science, philosophy, religion, history, politics, economics, the law, popular culture, literary analysis, twenty-first century technology, and others. The work entails more than a summary of current knowledge. The author's determination to understand the nature of things leads him to peel back the layers and gain new insights. Through this book the key matters are rendered with striking clarity, and conclusions, some of them unsettling, are reached on many of the Big Questions. 'How the World Works, and Why' is brimming with ideas that will provoke, inform and entertain.