The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us by Ackerman, Diane

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it....
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Author: Diane Ackerman
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The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us by Ackerman, Diane

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

€45,50

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

€45,50
Author: Diane Ackerman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented reality that one prodigiously intelligent and meddlesome creature, Homo sapiens, is now the dominant force shaping the future of planet Earth.

Humans have subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness. We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a frozen ark, equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us. With her distinctive gift for making scientific discovery intelligible to the layperson, Ackerman takes us on an exhilarating journey through our new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating--perhaps saving--our future and that of our fellow creatures.

A beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives, The Human Age is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.



Author: Diane Ackerman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/10/2014
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.61w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780393240740


Award: National Outdoor Book Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2014 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2014
Booklist 07/01/2014 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2014
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2014 pg. 23
Library Journal 09/15/2014 pg. 101
Entertainment Weekly 09/12/2014 pg. 70
Discover 10/01/2014 pg. 74
New York Times Book Review 09/07/2014 pg. 10
Shelf Awareness 09/12/2014
New York Times Book Review 09/14/2014 pg. 26
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 28
Kirkus Best Nonfiction 12/01/2014 pg. 4
Christian Century 12/10/2014 pg. 26
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 9
BookPage 09/01/2014
Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1532

About the Author
Ackerman, Diane: - Diane Ackerman has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the best-selling The Zookeeper's Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

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