TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackerman,Diane
TI  - The human age: the world shaped by us 
SN  - 9780393240740
AV  - GF13 .A35 2014
U1  - 304.2 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - fast
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - ram
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Effets de l'homme
KW  - sears
KW  - Human influence on nature
KW  - Environmental science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index; 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)
N2  - "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
ER  -