EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Time* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 *Entertainment Weekly* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award *Salon* Book Awards 2007 Amazon Top 100 Editorsβ Picks of 2007 (#4) Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and Current Affairs *Ka
The World Without Us
β Scribed by Weisman, Alan
- Book ID
- 107159781
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 613 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards 2007 Amazon Top 100 EditorsΠ²Πβ’ Picks of 2007 (#4) Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and Current Affairs Kansas City StarΠ²Πβ’s Top 100 Books of the Year 2007 Mother JonesΠ²Πβ’ Favorite Books of 2007 South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Books of the Year 2007 HudsonΠ²Πβ’s Best Books of 2007 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2007 St. Paul Pioneer Press Best Books of 2007 If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures--our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments--survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind's place on this planet.
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