Alan Weisman: 10 books

Book cover of The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure...
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Countdown

Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind...
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Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle

The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America

by Alan Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011

At nearly every pivotal moment in international politics over the past twenty-five years–from the Reagan-Gorbachev summits, to the Iran-Contra scandal, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the decision to go to war in Iraq–if you dug deeply you would find a figure just behind the scenes influencing...
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Die Welt ohne uns

Reise über eine unbevölkerte Erde

by Alan Weisman
Language: German
Release Date: August 13, 2012

Was wäre, wenn wir Menschen von einem Tag auf den anderen verschwinden würden? Zum Beispiel morgen. Ein ungeheures Gedankenexperiment! Alan Weisman entwirft das Szenario einer unbevölkerten Erde – gestützt auf das Wissen von Biologen, Geologen, Physikern, Architekten und Ingenieuren und mit...
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Un pueblo llamado Gaviotas

El lugar donde se reinventó el mundo

by Alan Weisman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 3, 2014

Un clásico del ecologismo que narra la historia del pueblo que reinventó el mundo. Al norte de la selva amazónica colombiana, Los Llanos, una de las zonas más hostiles de la Tierra, se ha convertido en el sorprendente escenario de una de las historias medioambientales más esperanzadoras...
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Gaviotas

Ein Dorf erfindet die Welt neu

by Alan Weisman
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2012

Sie hatten kein Geld, nur eine Idee. Sie gründeten ein florierendes Dorf namens Gaviotas – mitten im Nirgendwo. Hier versorgen sich die Menschen komplett selbst, erzeugen erneuerbare Energie, bereiten Wasser auf, entwickeln umweltfreundliche Maschinen. Bestsellerautor Alan Weisman erzählt die...
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Countdown

Hat die Erde eine Zukunft?

by Alan Weisman
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Wir können den zeitlichen Wettlauf nicht gewinnen – immer mehr Menschen produzieren immer mehr Müll, verbrauchen mehr Ressourcen und stoßen mehr CO₂ aus. Bisherige Versuche, die großen Umweltkatastrophen abzuwenden, indem wir den Konsum einschränken und auf erneuerbare Energien umsteigen,...
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La cuenta atrás

¿Tenemos futuro en la tierra?

by Alan Weisman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 3, 2014

Una propuesta fascinante para salvar el planeta. Un título que toma especial relevancia en el Día mundial del medioambiente. La cuenta atrás es un libro audaz, inteligente y provocador, que nos explica cuáles son los efectos de nuestro desmesurado crecimiento demográfico y plantea...
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Gaviotas

A Village to Reinvent the World, 2nd Edition

by Alan Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008

Los Llanos—the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia—are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if...
Book cover of Rheumatoid Arthritis E-Book
by Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008

First Prize, Orthopaedics and Rheumatology, BMA Awards 2009 This state-of-the-art reference provides current insights into the etiology, diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis. Leading international authorities in RA examine all of the latest scientific and clinical developments in...
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