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Titel:
Air : the restless shaper of the world
Persönlicher Verfasser:
GVPL_EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBDATE:
2012
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Physische Beschreibung:
xiv, 398 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780393067989
Abstract:
Examines the science of the air we breathe and how the smallest molecular changes in composition can make the difference between life and death.
Inhalte:
Floating. Darwin's dust ; The spore sucker ; Where fungi are ; Splash, fire, blow, fling ; The ergot of the rye ; Lifted, lofted, and living ; The pollen rain ; Invisible cities ; Is the furniture poison? ; The air after 9/11 -- Spinning. Weaving ; Vortices ; Ground truth ; El Greco's clouds ; The big mistake ; The forecasters ; The weather on D-Day ; Forcing ; The winds ; Firestorm -- Flying. Dragged aloft ; Saab in flight ; The common crane ; Stall practice ; The bat, the bee, the bar-headed goose ; The lee wave ; The wind riders ; What now? -- Telling. The wilderness of pheromones ; Mother and child communion ; Allure ; The atmosphere of the beloved ; Zooming in ; Aphids in the invisible world ; The bolas spider -- Calling. What is sound? ; Parrot duets ; The answered question ; Nothing in it but what goes through it ; Enchanted ; Sonata form and chaos ; The Aeolian harp -- Breathing. The tarpon's breath ; Fenchel's dance ; The quantity of breath ; Fogging the mirror ; Shall these bones live? -- Shining. Why the daytime sky is light ; There is only one sun ; The sap rising ; The air is a slow cold flame.
LANGUAGE:
Englisch
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