A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

Edwards, Paul N.

ISBN 10: 0262518635 / ISBN 13: 9780262518635

Editore: The MIT Press, 2010

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(1st edition, 1st printing) Large, sturdy book, smooth black covers, very bright silver lettering on spine, 518 pages with photographs ad charts. DJ glossy black beneath mylar with three color photographs of the Blue Earth from space. DJ and book, both As New.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262518635
• ISBN 13: 9780262518635
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition
• Condizione: As New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: As New
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Ecology

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Riassunto

The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.

Informazioni sull?autore

Paul N. Edwards is Professor in the School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (1996) and a coeditor (with Clark Miller) of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (2001), both published by the MIT Press.