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2805409Earthhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/earth-9781501317927/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3090461/90356ac6-7e6b-4eb7-a2eb-b603d0d7696c.jpg?v=6383848674855300005151MXNBloomsbury PublishingInStock/Ebooks/<p>Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.</p><p>In <em>Earth</em>, 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?</p><p>Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in <em>The Atlantic</em>.</p>...2741743Earth5151https://www.gandhi.com.mx/earth-9781501317927/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3090461/90356ac6-7e6b-4eb7-a2eb-b603d0d7696c.jpg?v=638384867485530000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20179781501317927_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_<p>Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.</p><p>In <em>Earth</em>, 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?</p><p>Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in <em>The Atlantic</em>.</p>(*_*)9781501317927_<p>Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.</p><p>In <em>Earth</em>, 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?</p><p>Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in <em>The Atlantic</em>.</p>...9781501317927_Bloomsbury Publishinglibro_electonico_f170af08-1338-3333-b98a-a7c6d950f8e5_9781501317927;9781501317927_9781501317927Profsesor LindaInglésMéxico2017-03-09T00:00:00+00:00Bloomsbury Publishing