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The Human Age

By Diane Ackerman
The Human Age by Diane Ackerman digital book - Fable

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Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the PEN New England Henry David Thoreau Prize.

A dazzling, inspiring tour through the ways that humans are working with nature to try to save the planet.

With her celebrated blend of scientific insight, clarity, and curiosity, Diane Ackerman explores our human capacity both for destruction and for invention as we shape the future of the planet Earth. Ackerman takes us to the mind-expanding frontiers of science, exploring the fact that the "natural" and the "human" now inescapably depend on one another, drawing from "fields as diverse as evolutionary robotics…nanotechnology, 3-D printing and biomimicry" (New York Times Book Review), with probing intelligence, a clear eye, and an ever-hopeful heart.

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3.5
“impactful novel about our interactions as the human race with nature and animals and how we have changed the Earth. incredibly thought-provoking, and a pretty short read as well”
“It was good, not great. The writing itself is quite poetic and beautiful but I never found myself actively reaching for this book. I think Sapiens does a better job exploring a similar topic”
“This was hard to finish, the writing style did not favor the reader. Lists that filled half the page just to end with "and many more examples". Rule of thumb is 3 examples and etc. I had to keep restarting sentences because I forgot what she was talking about by the end. Seemed like it was meant to poetic at times, but did not succeed. I finished solely for the information not the enjoyment”

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