The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us by Diane Ackerman

The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Diane Ackerman

352 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science challenging reflective slow-paced
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Award-winning nature writer Diane Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. Humans have "subdued 75 per cent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvel...

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