| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 344 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index. |
| Contents |
Welcome to the Anthropocene : Apps for apes ; Wild heart, anthropocene mind ; Black marble ; Handmade landscapes ; A dialect of stone ; Monkeying with the weather ; Gaia in a temper ; Brainstorming from equator to ice ; Blue revolution -- In the house of stone and light : Asphalt jungles ; A green man in a green shade ; House plants? How passé ; Opportunity warms -- Is nature "natural" anymore? : Is nature "natural" anymore? ; The slow-motion invaders ;"They had no choice" ; Paddling in the gene pool ; For love of a snail -- Nature, pixilated : An (un)natural future of the senses ; Weighing in the nanoscale ; Nature, pixilated ; The interspecies Internet ; Your passion flower is sexting you ; When robots weep, who will comfort them? ; Robots on a date ; Printing a rocking horse on Mars -- Our bodies, our nature : The (3D-printed) ear he lends me ; Cyborgs and chimeras ; DNA's secret doormen ; Meet my maker, the mad molecule ; Conclusion: Wild heart, anthropocene mind (revisited). |
| Summary |
"Humans have subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness. We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity ... Ackerman [explores] our new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating--perhaps saving--our future and that of our fellow creatures."--Jacket. |
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Human ecology.
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Civilization -- History.
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Human beings -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Human beings. (OCoLC)fst00962832
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
(OCoLC)fst01034564
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Human beings -- History.
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Human influence on nature.
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Civilization -- History.
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Human ecology.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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History.
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Environmental science.
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| ISBN |
9780393240740 (hardcover) |
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0393240746 (hardcover) |
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9780393351644 |
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0393351645 |
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9780755364985 |
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0755364988 |
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9780755364992 |
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0755364996 |
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