The human age : the world shaped by us
Item details
- ISBN: 9780393240740 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0393240746 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
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viii, 344 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 ; Wild heart, anthropocene mind (revisited). |
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