Auteur: Mentz Steve Mentz

We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There’s more real salt in the plays than we might expect. Shakespeare’s dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient …

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an …

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an …

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our …