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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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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Hardback. Condition: Good. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? This book is about which objects would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standing; how rats and roaches would struggle without us; and more.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? This book is about which objects would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standing; how rats and roaches would struggle without us; and more.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Los Llanos?the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia?are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile llanos could be made livable for his country?s growing population. He had no idea that nearly four decades later, his experiment would be one of the world?s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas. In the absence of infrastructure, the first Gaviotans invented wind turbines to convert mild breezes into energy, hand pumps capable of tapping deep sources of water, and solar collectors efficient enough to heat and even sterilize drinking water under perennially cloudy llano skies. Over time, the Gaviotans? experimentation has even restored an ecosystem: in the shelter of two million Caribbean pines planted as a source of renewable commercial resin, a primordial rain forest that once covered the llanos is unexpectedly reestablishing itself. Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has called Paolo Lugari ?Inventor of the World.? Lugari himself has said that Gaviotas is not a utopia: ?Utopia literally means ?no place.? We call Gaviotas a topia, because it?s real.? Relive their story with this special 10th-anniversary edition of Gaviotas, complete with a new afterword by the author describing how Gaviotas has survived and progressed over the past decade.…

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Hardback. Condition: Fair. New Page 1From five minutes to five billion years: an astonishing vision of Earth without humansPicture a world from which we all suddenly disappeared. Tomorrow. Noted journalist and professor Alan Weisman does just this in a book that is a tour de force of investigative writing and unputdownable reading.The World Without Us>examines what would happen in both the immediate and distant future to the land, the animals (guess what? cockroaches would not survive for long), the oceans, our cities, our art and all manner of things we take for granted. Would the seas again teem with fish? Would our concrete jungles crumble into natural ones? How long, if ever, would it take for our collective footprint to fade away? Examining the minute, fascinating details of how things deteriorate (or don't), Alan Weisman describes how seemingly indestructible pipes will be pulverized into rock, why some of our churches may be the last buildings standing and how plastic may be one of our gifts that keeps on giving. Much more than a physical cataloguing, however, The World Without Us>takes us into places we've abandoned, including Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ and an ancient Polish forest, to see how they've fared since we left. He talks to numerous scientists, engineers, ecologists, biologists and architects to get a realistic view of our impact on this planet. And he asks, since we're imagining, why not think of a way for nature to prosper that doesn't depend on our demise? At a time when we are seriously examining our impact on the earth, The World Without Us>is essential reading. With its irresistible premise, intelligent mix of disciplines and candid tone, this mesmerizing book is a provocative and timely future classic.Click here to read>The World Without Us timeline.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. New Page 1From five minutes to five billion years: an astonishing vision of Earth without humansPicture a world from which we all suddenly disappeared. Tomorrow. Noted journalist and professor Alan Weisman does just this in a book that is a tour de force of investigative writing and unputdownable reading.The World Without Us>examines what would happen in both the immediate and distant future to the land, the animals (guess what? cockroaches would not survive for long), the oceans, our cities, our art and all manner of things we take for granted. Would the seas again teem with fish? Would our concrete jungles crumble into natural ones? How long, if ever, would it take for our collective footprint to fade away? Examining the minute, fascinating details of how things deteriorate (or don't), Alan Weisman describes how seemingly indestructible pipes will be pulverized into rock, why some of our churches may be the last buildings standing and how plastic may be one of our gifts that keeps on giving. Much more than a physical cataloguing, however, The World Without Us>takes us into places we've abandoned, including Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ and an ancient Polish forest, to see how they've fared since we left. He talks to numerous scientists, engineers, ecologists, biologists and architects to get a realistic view of our impact on this planet. And he asks, since we're imagining, why not think of a way for nature to prosper that doesn't depend on our demise? At a time when we are seriously examining our impact on the earth, The World Without Us>is essential reading. With its irresistible premise, intelligent mix of disciplines and candid tone, this mesmerizing book is a provocative and timely future classic.Click here to read>The World Without Us timeline.…

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Condition: good. A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteedâ"but the story's all there.