M R O'Connor

Wayfinding

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 137mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781250380289
• ISBN-10: 1250380286
• Artikelnr.: 70699124

Autorenporträt

M.R. O'CONNOR's reporting has appeared in Foreign Policy, Slate, The Atlantic, Nautilus and The New Yorker. Her work has received support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2016 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She is the author of Resurrection Science. A graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, she lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Hypermobility
Part ONE, Arctic:
The Last Roadless Place
Memoryscapes
Why Children Are Amnesiacs
Birds, Bees, Wolves and Whales
Navigation Made Us Human
A Storytelling Computer
Part TWO, Australia:
Supernomads
Dreamtime Cartography
Space and Time in the Brain
Among the Lightning People
You Say Left, I Say North
Part THREE, Oceania:
Empiricism at Harvard
The Astronauts of Oceania
Navigating Climate Change
This is Your Brain on GPS
Lost Tesla
Epilogue: Our Genius is Topophilia