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Stay up to speed on all we have to offerplus activities, crafts, and blogs for parents and educators in our newsletter. The world without us by alan weisman is a penetrating, pageturning, exploration of how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence. When stefan muller finds a car wreck and human remains on his property, things are brought to a head. In his morbidly fascinating nonfiction ecothriller, the world without us, weisman imagines what would happen if the earths most invasive. World without us by alan weisman 2900312347290 hardcover. To alan weisman, this nightmare scenario would be merely a promising start. A penetrating, pageturning tour of a posthuman earth in the world without us, alan weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanitys impact on the planet. World without end takes place in the same town of kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite gothic cathedral that was at the heart of the pillars of the earth.
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The world without us if a virulent virusor even the rapturedepopulated earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished. New york city will literally go down the drain during the first rainfall after were gone. The world without us is not a book for environmentalists. The world without us is a nonfiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by american journalist alan weisman and published by st. With roy werner, mari ueda, tomo kawaguchi, mark ofuji.