The Human Age The World Shaped By Us [Hardcover]

Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented reality that one prodigiously intelligent and meddlesome creature,An ode to the planet weve created for ourselves& Rarely grim, and the overwhelming spirit is one of relentless optimism.[Ackerman] raises the bar for her peers&her penetrating insight is a joy to behold.Ackerman has established herself over the last quarter of a century as one of our most adventurous, charismatic, and engrossing public science writers&she has demonstrated a rare versatility, a contagious curiosity, and a gift for painting quick, memorable tableaus drawn from research across a panoply of disciplines.Diane Ackermans vivid writing, inexhaustible stock of insights, and unquenchable optimism have established her as a national treasure, and as one of our great authors. Youre now about to become addicted to Diane Ackerman.In this amazingly illuminating book, Diane Ackerman explains our future with her typically intoxicating blend of scholarship, wisdom, grace and humor.Diane Ackerman writes with brilliance, zest, and high style. In a difficult time, we need to hear this voice of human affirmation. It's important. It matters. I readWith this stirringly vivid, darkbright manifesto, Diane Ackerman summons us to the wager of sheer possibility: life against death, delight still (if only just barely) trouncing despair.A book to dip around inskimming some parts and perusing others with careas your interest guides you, enjoying Ackermans profound sense of mind play as you go.A hard look at the impact that humans have had on Earth& thought provoking.Fascinating& Ackerman offers a cross-cultural tour of human ingenuity & Her words invite us to feel the hope she feels.Part immersion memoir and part journalism&[A] thought-provoking analysis of our connection to the earth& A lens that magnifies and clarifies the fascinating, fl³J