Dust: The enormous impact of the planet's smallest particles - Couverture souple

Owens, Jay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529362652 ISBN 13 : 9781529362657

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton, 2023

Synopsis

Exploring dust as a method for seeing the world - from space dust to sandstorms, the domestic to the digital.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jay Owens is a writer and researcher based in London, UK. Her work explores dust and digital media - both complex, ambivalent ecosystems where grand technological dreams come to clash with messier practical realities.

Jay is a former Research Director at the audience insight platform Pulsar, helping media and technology companies (including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, & Samsung) understand the present state of things online. Her research and comment on technology, media culture and behaviour has received coverage in the Guardian, WIRED, VICE and advertising press.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Dust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought. Yet within the next one hundred years, life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought - and that means dust.

In this ground-breaking book, Jay Owens argues that dust is a legacy of twentieth-century progress and a toxic threat to life in the twenty-first.

Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles tells the gripping story of how the relentless drive for profit and power has turned the world to powder. Combining history and science, travel and nature writing, Owens shows how the modern world was made through environmental devastation - and then brushed the consequences under the carpet. From particle air pollution and nuclear fallout to desertification, dried-up seas and melting glaciers, we've profoundly altered the planet we live on. The cost to human health - and to the natural world - proves immense.

From the California desert and the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma to the desiccated remains of the Aral Sea and the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, we are shown that some of the planet's most remote and forgotten places are central to the modern world. With clarity and insight, Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles helps us understand our legacy and discovers the big ideas found within the smallest particles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529362652
• ISBN 13: 9781529362657
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible