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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Earth

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.
  • ISBN: 978-1-5013-1793-4
  • EAN: 9781501317934
  • Produktnummer: 29845595
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'010 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 12 b/w illustrations

Über den Autor


Jeffrey Jerone Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University, USA, and co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (which received the 2017 René Wellek Prize for best book in comparative literature) and in collaboration with Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Earth (Bloomsbury, 2017), a re-examination of planet from the perspectives of a planetary scientist and a literary humanist.

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