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Das menschliche Zeitalter: Die von uns geformte Welt von Diane Ackerman (2015, Taschenbuch)

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Region
World
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Natural History, Ecology, Global Warming & Climate Change
Subject
Health & Fitness
ISBN
9780393351644
Book Title
Human Age : the World Shaped by Us
Item Length
8.3in
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year
2015
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
Diane Ackerman
Genre
Nature, Science
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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With her celebrated blend of scientific insight, clarity, and curiosity, Diane Ackerman explores our human capacity both for destruction and for invention as we shape the future of the planet Earth. Ackerman takes us to the mind-expanding frontiers of science, exploring the fact that the natural and the human now inescapably depend on one another, drawing from fields as diverse as evolutionary robotics...nanotechnology, 3-D printing and biomimicry ( New York Times Book Review ), with probing intelligence, a clear eye, and an ever-hopeful heart.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393351645
ISBN-13
9780393351644
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Human Age : the World Shaped by Us
Author
Diane Ackerman
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Natural History, Ecology, Global Warming & Climate Change
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz

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Gf47
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Amazingly illuminating...Ackerman reaches into the past to understand and explain our future...with her typically intoxicating blend of scholarship, wisdom, grace, and humor., Fascinating...Ackerman offers a cross-cultural tour of human ingenuity...Her words invite us to feel the hope she feels., The Human Age allows us to consider whether or not we will accept destruction or restoration as our legacy. I cannot imagine a richer text of image and insight, rendered with grace, intelligence and stamina., [A] thought-provoking analysis of our connection to the earth... A lens that magnifies and clarifies the fascinating, far-reaching effects humans have had on our planet and ourselves., What a hopeful book! We can feel many things at the start of the Anthropocene, this new geological age that we have brought on--or brought down on ourselves. Diane Ackerman, for one, is optimistic, even cheerful, singing the praises of those individuals among us who are helping to find the way forward. And she writes with brilliance, zest, and high style. We need to hear this voice of human affirmation. It's important. It matters. I read The Human Age and thought, Yes! This is the way to look ahead., A humdinger of a book...Ackerman is optimistic, even exhilarated, and frequently giddy about the future of humanity., Ackerman is a gorgeous writer and perceptive observer. Here she writes with great empathy about the human plight., In this amazingly illuminating book, Diane Ackerman explains our future with her typically intoxicating blend of scholarship, wisdom, grace and humor., Ackerman has established herself over the last quarter of a century as one of our most adventurous, charismatic and engrossing public science writers...[S]he has demonstrated a rare versatility, a contagious curiosity and a gift for painting quick, memorable tableaus drawn from research across a panoply of disciplines...The Human Age is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious., A book to dip around in--skimming some parts and perusing others with care--as your interest guides you, enjoying Ackerman's profound sense of mind play as you go., With this stirringly vivid, darkbright manifesto, Diane Ackerman summons us to the wager of sheer possibility: life against death, delight still (if only just barely) trouncing despair., Fascinating... Ackerman offers a cross-cultural tour of human ingenuity ... Her words invite us to feel the hope she feels., [W]ith a poet's soul and a journalist's precision...[Ackerman's] examinations of overpopulation, the energy crisis, and our dependence on technology make The Human Age both foreboding and inspirational., An ode to the planet we've created for ourselves... Rarely grim, and the overwhelming spirit is one of relentless optimism., Diane Ackerman's vivid writing, inexhaustible stock of insights, and unquenchable optimism have established her as a national treasure, and as one of our great authors. If you've read any of her previous books, you already know why you'll love this latest one. If you haven't read her previous books, you're now about to become addicted to Diane Ackerman., Diane Ackerman's vivid writing, inexhaustible stock of insights, and unquenchable optimism have established her as a national treasure, and as one of our great authors. You're now about to become addicted to Diane Ackerman., Diane Ackerman writes with brilliance, zest, and high style. In a difficult time, we need to hear this voice of human affirmation. It's important. It matters. I read The Human Age and thought, Yes! This is the way to look ahead., With graceful intelligence, Ackerman calls for an enlightened guardianship for the planet. I cannot imagine a richer text of image and insight., Ackerman has established herself over the last quarter of a century as one of our most adventurous, charismatic, and engrossing public science writers...she has demonstrated a rare versatility, a contagious curiosity, and a gift for painting quick, memorable tableaus drawn from research across a panoply of disciplines. The Human Age displays all of these alluring qualities...The Human Age is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious., A humdinger of a book... Ackerman is optimistic, even exhilarated, and frequently giddy about the future of humanity.
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
304.2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

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