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100 1  Boyle, Rebecca|q(Rebecca B.),|eauthor. 
245 10 Our moon :|bhow Earth's celestial companion transformed 
       the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are /
       |cRebecca Boyle. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2023] 
300    xviii, 313 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-292) and 
       index. 
520    "Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon 
       holds the answers to some of science's central questions. 
       Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old 
       companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity 
       stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided 
       evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered 
       complex life, it now influences everything from animal 
       migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' 
       leaves. More than 30,000 years before humans invented 
       writing, they used the Moon's waxing and waning to track 
       the passage of time, and, in a tectonic shift for human 
       consciousness, used it to plan for the future. 
       Unsurprisingly, the Moon was a primary feature of the 
       first religions, written language, and philosophy. But our
       relationship to the Moon became more concrete when Apollo 
       landed on it in 1969 in a moment of scientific and 
       political triumph. And both engineering and politics 
       promise to shape our relationship with it in the near 
       future. Scientists advocate for a return to the moon to do
       research; governments and billionaires want to return to 
       turn a profit from its mineral resources. Who gets to 
       decide how we use a celestial body that, Boyle argues, 
       belongs to everyone and no one? How can we learn to 
       protect this beautiful, spectral thing that we all share?"
       --|cProvided by publisher. 
651  0 Moon|vPopular works. 
651  0 Moon|xHistory|vPopular works. 
651  0 Moon|xSocial aspects|vPopular works. 
651  0 Moon|xReligious aspects|vPopular works. 
651  0 Moon|xPhilosophy|vPopular works.