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  The World Without Us (Picador) (Paperback) By (author) Alan Weisman

  

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  Short Description for The World Without UsWeisman, an award-winning journalist, offers readers a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
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  • Publisher: Picador USA
  • Published: 05 August 2008
  • Format: Paperback 416 pages
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  • Categories: Social Groups | Ecological Science, The Biosphere | Earth Sciences | Human Geography | Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology
  • ISBN 13: 9780312427900 ISBN 10: 0312427905
  • Sales rank: 46,709

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• "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.