Non-fiction science Alan Weisman American author professor

Non-fiction science

Alan Weisman American author, professor, and journalist. He has written several books and won numerous international awards for his work in journalism and literature.

Just imagine… One day people disappear and nature begins to live its own way… How can it be possible?

A journalist Alan Weisman gives an opportunity to know what will happen with environment without human. A book consists of 19 chapters, each of them develop different topics, spheres of life.

Some facts As a model he uses New York city and shows how it will ruin. Weisman's thought experiment pursues two themes: how nature would react to the disappearance of humans and what legacy humans would leave behind. Weisman's science journalism style uses interviews with academic and professional authorities to substantiate conclusions. Weisman explains that a common house would begin to fall apart as water eventually leaks into the roof around the flashings, erodes the wood and rusts the nails, leading to sagging walls and eventual collapse.

Praise "I don't think I've read a better non-fiction book this year. ” —Lev Grossman, TIME Book Critic "This is one of the grandest thought experiments of our time, a tremendous feat of imaginative reporting!" —Bill Mc. Kibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future “The imaginative power of The World Without Us is compulsive and nearly hypnotic--make sure you have time to be kidnapped into Alan Weisman’s alternative world before you sit down with the book, because you won’t soon return. This is a text that has a chance to change people, and so make a real difference for the planet. ” —Charles Wohlforth, author of L. A. Times Book Prize-winning The Whale and the Supercomputer "Brilliantly creative. An audacious intellectual adventure. His thought experiment is so intellectually fascinating, so oddly playful, that it escapes categorizing and clichés. It sucks us in with a vision of what is, what has been and what is yet to come. The book is addictive…By appealing not just to our fear and guilt but to our love for our planetary home, The World Without Us makes saving the world as intimate an act as helping a child. It’s a trumpet call that sounds from the other end of the universe and from inside us all. " —Salon

So what life will look like without us? You have a chance to know reading the book