Format:
1 Online-Ressource
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781501317941
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9781501317927
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150131792X
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9781501317910
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9781501317934
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1501317938
Series Statement:
Object lessons
Content:
1. Prologue: Genesis -- 2. Orbit -- 3. Ground (Why Earth?) -- 4. Scale (Barriers to Understanding) -- 5. Radiance (Earth's beauty) -- 6. Gravity (Earth's Pull) -- 7. Interlude: A Hike Around Piestewa Peak -- 8. Imagination -- List of Illustrations -- Notes -- Index.
Content:
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In Earth , a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a ?blue marble,? ?a blue pale dot,? or, as Chaucer described it, ?this litel spot of erthe,? the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world. Viewing the Earth from space invites a dive into the abyss of scale: how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die? Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501317910
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome Earth New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501317941
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