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Caspar Henderson - New Map of Wonders, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

New Map of Wonders

A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels

Av Caspar Henderson

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A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring.With the curiosity and enthusiasm of a great explorer, the award-winning Caspar Henderson celebrates and explains the wonder of light and the origins of the universe, the myriad marvels of the human body and the natural world -- and reveals the wonders to come: the technologies that will transform human experience and change what we will find wonderful. Drawing on philosophy and natural history, art and religion, neuroscience and nanotechnology, A New Map of Wonders is a celebration of life -- a rich and inspiring guide, encouraging us to see the world anew.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-05-03
  • Mått: 130 x 198 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 272 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 364
  • Förlag: Granta Books
  • ISBN: 9781783781355
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CASPAR HENDERSON has been a journalist and an editor with various publications and broadcasters, including BBC Radio 4, the Financial Times, the Independent, Nature, New Scientist and openDemocracy (where he was senior editor for three years). He is a past recipient of an IUCN-Reuters Award for best environmental reporting in Western Europe. His debut, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (Granta, 2012), won the Roger Deakin Award of the Society of Authors and the Jerwood Award of the Royal Society of Literature, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.

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This book does exactly what it says on the cover, and shows us where wonder is to be found. His account of familiar phenomena shows how unfamiliar and extraordinary they really are

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