{"product_id":"9780593733288","title":"Life Beyond Measure","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 06 APRIL \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e2027\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJust as he did in his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestseller,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9780593133255\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Immense World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Ed Yong expands our perception of nature, this time by revealing the astonishing ways living things operate at different scales.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll around us, just beyond our awareness, life proceeds in astounding ways. A 100-ton blue whale swims easily across fathomless oceans, singing to fellow whales thousands of miles away. Alongside it a bacterium swims in a drop of seawater that is as vast to it as an ocean is to the whale. Hummingbirds are too speedy for us to follow, while plants move too languorously for us to perceive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery living thing operates at its own scale - the blend of size, range, pace, longevity, and influence that defines the contours and rhythms of a life. We tend to think of the human scale as life's default. But in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife Beyond Measure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Ed Yong coaxes us from our medium-sized, medium-lived, medium-paced, moderately mobile range and introduces us to entirely new worlds, some that could fit between two grains of sand. Fireflies assemble their luminous chorus; a bristlecone pine rounds the corner of its fifth millennium; shorebirds fly without stopping across the world's largest ocean; a pink, rubbery salamander the size of a forearm rarely moves at all; an ant colony develops a personality, and a host of other dazzling, disorienting entities expand our understanding of what life can be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMind-bending, exhilarating, funny, and profound, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife Beyond Measure\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a call to cast off our human perspective, lose ourselves in the vastness and strangeness of nature, and, by doing so, discover how intimately connected to the rest of life we are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yong, Ed","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621279412478,"sku":"9780593733288","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/Life_Beyond_Measure.png?v=1784654300","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9780593733288","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}