{"product_id":"earth-object-lessons","title":"Earth (Object Lessons)","description":"\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world. Viewing the Earth from space invites a dive into the abyss of scale: how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49918667391265,"sku":"9781501317910","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9781501317910.jpg?v=1721270401","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/earth-object-lessons","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}