Air: The Restless Shaper of the World
Format: kindle
ASIN: B007HXFDKK
Publish date: August 20th 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 417
Edition language: English
This is a lovely, easy, dreamy read. It's far more a meditation on things having to do with air than a science book. The chapters form a hodge-podge that eventually becomes a picture, but it's part memoir, part poem, and part science.This use of pictures is strange. There are a few pictures, but ...
This is such a wonderful book that I completely understand why the New York Times Book Review chose it as a "Notable Book" of the year. This is science woven into life and reflections on life, and written with a poet's enjoyment of language and using language to evoke an experience. Air was simply...
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