"Non-fiction science". Alan Weisman

1. Non-fiction science

2. Alan Weisman

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

3. Just imagine…

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

4.

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.

5. 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.

6. 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 McKibben, 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

7. So what life will look like without us?

You have a chance to know reading the
book