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The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
By Ackerman, Diane
- ISBN
- 9780393240740 9780393245844
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on September 15, 2014 | Science and Technology
Ackerman, author of literary discussions of science and nature, including Dawn Light and Natural History of the Senses, has taken on the Anthropocene (Age of Man), the term for the current geologic epoch popularized by Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen in 2000. Ackerman describes how our world has changed because of our choices and actions and how this, in turn, has changed us, and optimistically ask...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
