The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us - Tapa blanda

Exquisite and startling.--Tim Flannery

Splendidly prismatic...[N]early every page holds surprises.--Andrew C. Revkin

Amazingly illuminating...Ackerman reaches into the past to understand and explain our future...with her typically intoxicating blend of scholarship, wisdom, grace, and humor.--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies

With graceful intelligence, Ackerman calls for an enlightened guardianship for the planet. I cannot imagine a richer text of image and insight.--Terry Tempest Williams, author of When Women Were Birds

Diane Ackerman's vivid writing, inexhaustible stock of insights, and unquenchable optimism have established her as a national treasure, and as one of our great authors. If you've read any of her previous books, you already know why you'll love this latest one. If you haven't read her previous books, you're now about to become addicted to Diane Ackerman.--Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse

Ackerman is a gorgeous writer and perceptive observer.--Kate Tuttle

Ferociously inspiring.--Alan Moores

Fascinating...Ackerman offers a cross-cultural tour of human ingenuity...Her words invite us to feel the hope she feels.--Barbara J. King

A humdinger of a book...Ackerman is optimistic, even exhilarated, and frequently giddy about the future of humanity.--Jon Christensen

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.