Book : World Without Us - Weisman, Alan

-Titulo Original : World Without Us

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Picador Paper

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About the Author Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including The World Without Us a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, winner of the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China, and an international bestseller translated in 34 languages. An award-winning journalist, his reports have appeared in Harpers, New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Vanity Fair, and Mother Jones. A former contributing editor to Los Angeles Times Magazine, Weisman is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions. He lives in Massachusetts. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Time #1 Nonfiction Book* An Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book *A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Salon Book Awards* A Kansas City Stars Top 100 Book of the Year *A Mother Jones Favorite Book* The 15th Anniversary edition of the worldwide bestseller that answers the ultimate question: what happens to the Earth when human beings disappear? Now with a new afterword from the author. The World Without Us is a penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists, Alan Weisman deftly illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.In this revelatory account, Alan Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, and radio waves may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other. This is narrative nonfiction at its finest one of the most affecting portraits yet of humankinds place on this planet. Review “This is one of the grandest thought experiments of our time, a tremendous feat of imaginative reporting.” Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future“Brilliantly creative...An audacious intellectual adventure...His thought experiment is so intellectually fascinating, so oddly playful, that it escapes categorizing and cliches...It sucks us in with a vision of what is, what has been, and what is yet to come...Its a trumpet call that sounds from the other end of the universe and from inside us all.” Salon“An astonishing mass of reportage that envisions a world suddenly bereft of humans.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“A fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller...Weismans gripping fantasy will make most readers hope that at least some of us can stick around long enough to see how it all turns out.” The New York Times Book Review“Alan Weisman has produced, if not a Bible, at least a Book of Revelation.” Newsweek“The book boasts an amazingly imaginative conceit that manages to tap into underlying fears and subtly inspire us to consider our interaction with the planet.” The Washington Post“Extraordinarily farsighted...Beautiful and passionate.” The Boston Globe“Grandly entertaining.” Time“The World Without Us gradually reveals itself to be one of the most satisfying environmental books of recent memory, one devoid of self-righteousness, alarmism, or tiresome doomsaying.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“A refreshing, and oddly hopeful, look at the fate of the environment.” BusinessWeek“This book is the very DNA of hope.” The Globe and Mail (Toronto)“Prodigious and impressive.” The New York Times“I dont think Ive read a better nonfiction book this year.” Lev Grossman, Time“In his provoc