Diane Ackerman The Human Age The World Shaped By Us 2014 Retail EPUB eBook BitBook

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 |                   The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us                    |
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 | DATE: 2018-10-05  SIZE: 815.11 KB  DISKS: 1x 10MB     PAGES: n/a           |
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 | PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company            GENRE:                        |
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 | AUTHOR: Diane Ackerman                                                     |
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 | FORMAT: EPUB  PROTECTION: DRM  EDITION: n/a                                |
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 | URL: https://is.gd/wkT4FX                                                  |
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 | LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9780393245844                                    |
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 : Winner of the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History         :
 : Literature and the 2015 PEN New England Henry David Thoreau Prize. A       :
 : dazzling, inspiring tour through the ways that humans are working with     :
 : nature to try to save the planet. Ackerman is justly celebrated for her    :
 : unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmar :
 : 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 orangutan :
 : 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 th :
 : 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.                                                              :
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