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1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Object lessons |
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Object lessons.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1â#x80;#x82;Prologue: Genesis; Chapter 2â#x80;#x82;Orbit; Chapter 3â#x80;#x82;Ground (Why Earth?); Chapter 4â#x80;#x82;Scale (Barriers to Understanding); Chapter 5â#x80;#x82;Radiance (Earthâ#x80;#x99;s Beauty); Chapter 6â#x80;#x82;Gravity (Earthâ#x80;#x99;s Pull); Chapter 7â#x80;#x82;Interlude: A Hike around Piestewa Peak; Chapter 8â#x80;#x82;Imagination; A Facebook status update that became a blog post; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Notes; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 8; Index. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2021). |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Earth (Planet) -- Popular works.
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Philosophy: aesthetics.
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The Earth: natural history general.
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Literary theory.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Geophysics.
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Earth (Planet) (OCoLC)fst01860481
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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| Added Author |
Elkins-Tanton, Lindy, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Earth. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781501317910 (DLC) 2016025987 |
| ISBN |
9781501317941 electronic book |
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1501317946 electronic book |
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9781501317927 electronic book |
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150131792X electronic book |
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9781501317934 electronic book |
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1501317938 electronic book |
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