Electric Life: The Hidden Radiance of Everything - Hardcover

Funneman, Sander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250868408 ISBN 13: 9781250868404

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2025

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“A jolting perspective changer.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review


Did you know that bees charge themselves like batteries? That frogs float on magnetic fields, and seals use radar? This groundbreaking nonfiction graphic novel explores the vital but often unexpected roles that electricity and magnetism play in the natural world.

From subatomic particles to our solar system, electromagnetic forces have long formed the building blocks of our reality. Yet the full extent of their impact is only just beginning to come to light. Electric Life invites readers on a breathtaking journey into this unseen world, revealing how electricity and magnetism affect not only humans but also our planet and the universe at large.

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Sander Funneman’s previous books include Electric Ecosystem and Electric Context. As a research journalist he has worked on various publications, collaborating with numerous scientists, and is a regular contributor to the Dutch magazine The Optimist. He began his career teaching general economy and statistics in higher professional education, after which he became director of the Template Foundation and consultant for developing new ways of natural education and research. Now, as an international public speaker, he covers a wide range of topics concerning the natural templates that govern life. Sander lives in the Netherlands.

Peter Brouwers has been drawing all his life. At the age of eight, he already knew he wanted to become an artist. Born and raised in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he attended art school there. When he became a father he started to make children’s books. He published eleven books, of which Bertje Big is his most popular title. In 2009, he began holding art lessons for children and discovered his passion for teaching. He now has students ranging in age from five to seventy attending his daily classes at his studio in Utrecht. This is his first graphic novel, a dream come true for eight-year-old Peter.

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Did you know bees charge themselves like batteries, frogs float on magnetic fields, and seals use radar? In this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel, Sander Funneman explores electricity and magnetism in the natural world, buttressing his findings with solid evidence at every step. Billions of years before the invention of the light bulb, natural electricity was already shaping our world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250868408
• ISBN 13: 9781250868404
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Brouwers Peter
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Niederlande