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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

Name: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Brand: St. Martins Press-3PL
SKU: 9780805075199
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Contributors:

Bill McKibben

Publisher:

St. Martins Press-3PL

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science, Technology & Engineering

Book Subcategory:

Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences, Social Aspects

Book Topic:

Genetics & Genomics

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Release Date:

2004-02-01

ISBN 13:

9780805075199

Weight:

0.75 lbs

Size:

8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

271

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"Passionate, succinct, chilling, closely argued, sometimes hilarious, touchingly well-intentioned, and essential." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books

Nearly fifteen years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter and endanger our environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature but with ourselves. He explores the frontiers of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology--all of which we are approaching with astonishing speed--and shows that each threatens to take us past a point of no return. We now stand, in Michael Pollan's words, "on a moral and existential threshold," poised between the human past and a post-human future. McKibben offers a celebration of what it means to be human, and a warning that we risk the loss of all meaning if we step across the threshold. Instantly acclaimed for its passion and insight, this wise and eloquent book argues that we cannot forever grow in reach and power--that we must at last learn how to say, "Enough."

About the Author

Bill McKibben writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Natural History, The New Republic, and many other publications. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 after being excerpted in The New Yorker and was a national bestseller. His other books include The Age of Missing Information, Maybe One, and Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously. He lives with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and daughter in Vermont.

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