Ackerman, Diane,  1948- <br/><br/>
The human age :  the world shaped by us / 
Diane Ackerman. 
 - First edition. 
 - viii, 344 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index. 
<br/><br/>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). 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393240740 0393240746 9780393351644 0393351645 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>BRO-copy20140916-084  BRO-cust20140918-084 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014027691 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB4B3158  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016890387  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human ecology.<br/>Civilization--History.<br/>Human beings--History.<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on.<br/>Civilization.<br/>Human beings.<br/>Human ecology.<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on.<br/>Écologie humaine.<br/>Civilisation--Histoire.<br/>Nature--Effets de l'homme.<br/>Human beings--History.<br/>Human influence on nature.<br/>Civilization--History.<br/>Human ecology.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>History.<br/>Environmental science.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GF13  / .A35 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.2