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The World Without Us

✍ Scribed by Weisman, Alan


Book ID
108649336
Publisher
Macmillan
Year
2008
Tongue
UND
Weight
613 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780312347291

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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 Editors’ Picks of 2007 (#4)

Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and Current Affairs

Kansas City Star’s Top 100 Books of the Year 2007

Mother Jones’ Favorite Books of 2007

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Books of the Year 2007

Hudson’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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