Ed Yong
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
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"This book lets us peer into the world of microbes -- not as germs to be eradicated, but as invaluable parts of our lives -- allowing us to see how ubiquitous and vital microbes are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, educate our immune systems, guide our behavior, bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities. While much of the prevailing discussion around the microbiome has focused on its...
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Publisher
Tendencias
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
480, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
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"La Tierra esta repleta de imagenes y texturas, sonidos y vibraciones, olores y sabores, campos electricos y magneticos. Pero cada individuo esta encerrado dentro de su burbuja sensorial, propia y unica, y solo percibe una pequena porcion de la inmensidad de nuestro planeta. Este libro nos abre las puertas a dimensiones hasta ahora insondables: el mundo tal como lo perciben otros animales. Encontraremos escarabajos que se sienten atraidos por el fuego;...
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 566 pages ; 24 cm
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The past four years in the United States have been among the most turbulent in our history?and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of protest nationwide against police violence. Drawn from the recent work of The Atlantic staff writers and contributors, The American Crisis explores the factors that led us to the present moment: racial division, economic inequality, political dysfunction, the hollowing out of government, the...