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An accomplished science writer offers a captivating examination of the physics of the wind and its enormous impact on the earth, human history, and the human psyche, showing how the collision of molecules can topple an empire. 10,000 first printing.
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1 author picked Wind as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book, too, but this time for its sheer poetry. This is the flip side of science writing, focusing less on direct cause and effect and more on a prismatic sense of wonder. DeBlieu’s celebration of the wind does all that but is different, for in addition to the physics of airflow and secrets of meteorology, the effects of the wind on biology, geology, and time, her writing drifts and flows like the breeze itself through history, literature, psychology, myth, and past and future dreams.
It’s really quite hypnotic, a seemingly effortless structure intended to mimic its invisible…
From Joe's list on mystery and chaos of scientific inquiry.
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