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Weisman, 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.

Weisman, 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.

A thought-provoking study of what would happen to Earth if the human presence was removed from the equation examines our short-term and long-term legacy for the planet, from the objects of today's world that would vanish without human intervention to those that would become long-lasting remnants of humankind. (CON52, $15.00)

本片以一個大膽的假設作為主題，辯論美國軍事介入全球多個國家的 涵義和後果。 美國從第一次世界大戰期間的一個「孤立主義者國家」到現今自視為 「國際警察」，其軍備為全球之冠，在超過90多個國家駐軍，每年 軍費高達4200億美元。美國經濟正下滑，人口下降，對世界的經 濟影響力亦不斷收縮，究竟美國能否繼續維持及承擔其龐大的軍備費 用呢？ “沒有美國的世界”走遍20個國家進行資料搜集並訪問多位資深及 權威人仕為觀眾詳盡分析這個極具爭議的假設，內容覆蓋美國本土、 中東、歐洲及亞洲，以不同角度探討美國在各地駐軍及其政治影響。

Starred Review. If a virulent virus, or even the Rapture, depopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished? That's the provocative, and occasionally puckish, question posed by Weisman (An Echo in My Blood) in this imaginative hybrid of solid science reporting and morbid speculation. Days after our disappearance, pumps keeping Manhattan's subways dry would fail, tunnels would flood, soil under streets would sluice away and the foundations of towering...

The World Without Us is a one-of-a-kind book that sweeps through time from the moment of humanity's future extinction to millions of years into the future. Drawing on interviews with experts and on real examples of places in the world that have already been abandoned by humans--Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ and an ancient Polish forest--Weisman shows both the shocking impact we've had on our planet and how impermanent our footprint actually is.

Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us . Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standing; how rats and roaches would struggle without us; and how plastic, cast-iron, and radio waves may be...

Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD, Macmillan Audio

ISBN-10: 8483067439 ISBN-13: 9788483067437. Edition: .

[ Ships Daily ] Condition: Good ISBN-13: 9780739490440 ISBN-10: 0739490443Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub Date: 1/1/2007 Binding: Paperback Pages: 329

The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations, and how, as the world's cities crumble, asphalt jungles give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically-treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists...

"This is one of the grandest thought experiments of our time, a tremendous feat of imaginative reporting."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future "Brilliantly creative . . . An audacious intellectual adventure . . . His thought experiment is so intellectually fascinating, so oddly playful, that it escapes categorizing and cliches. . . . It sucks us in with a vision of what is, what has been, and what is yet to come. . . . It...

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...

Did you know that without electricity and constant supervision, New York City's subway system would be overrun with water within two days? The factoids abound amidst Weisman's pretty scientific, mostly straightforward, occasionally offensive speculations. Despite some sticky points where his worldview and mine seemed at odds (the realm of "feminism," for instance), I found this book delightful and informative. I call it "pop-science" because it's not a thorough examination of much, but that’s also...

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The World Without US explores the hypothetical future of a world in witch the U.S. reverts to isolationism, withdrawing its military presence and leaving countries to manage international conflicts on their own. Filmmaker Mitch Anderson has embarked on a journey across 20 countries in search of whether U.S. involvement is ultimately beneficial or detrimental to the fabric of global stability.

The We That Sets Us Free combines music, spoken word and interviews with activists inside and outside prison to challenge all of us to imagine new ways of living, to question what purpose prisons serve and to propose anti-racist alternatives to punishment and confinement.