Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on "a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception" (The New York Times), allowing us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive. "One of this year's finest works of narrative nonfiction . . . Yong's reporting is layered, seasoned with vivid scenes from laboratories and in the field, interviews with researchers across a spectrum of disciplines."--Oprah Daily "A dazzling ride through the sensory world of astoundingly sophisticated creatures."--The Wall St Book and Mortar Record Store An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us -- Ed Yong 25.35 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on "a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception" (The New York Times), allowing us to experience the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that other animals perceive. "One of this year's finest works of narrative nonfiction . . . Yong's reporting is layered, seasoned with vivid scenes from laboratories and in the field, interviews with researchers across a spectrum of disciplines."--Oprah Daily "A dazzling ride through the sensory world of astoundingly sophisticated creatures."--The Wall Street Journal The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses to encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called "the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes." Author: Ed Yong Publisher: Random House Published: 06/21/2022 Pages: 464 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.75lbs Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.70d ISBN: 9780593133231 Review Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2022 pg. 13 Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2022 Booklist 05/15/2022 pg. 5 Publishers Weekly 05/30/2022
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Artist: Yong, Ed
Record Label: Random House
Release Title: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Arou
Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Science & Math,Biological Sciences,Animals
Label: Random House
Album: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Arou
Book Title: Immense World : How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Topic: Neurology, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Natural History, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Animals / General, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Science, Medical
Item Weight: 28.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: Ed Yong
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
