A Book of Waves

by Stefan Helmreich

Book Overview

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves' materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478020415
• ISBN13: 9781478020417
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"