Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822371236ISBN-10:822371235UPC:9780822371236Book Category:Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, AnthropologyBook Topic:Geography, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC6ZK9D9NT
Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment
In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological development from meteorology to...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822371236ISBN-10:822371235UPC:9780822371236Book Category:Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, AnthropologyBook Topic:Geography, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC6ZK9D9NT
Derek P. McCormack is Professor of Cultural Geography at Oxford University, author of Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment in Affective Spaces, also published by Duke University Press, and coauthor of Key Concepts in Urban Geography.
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