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    <![CDATA[The World Without Us]]>
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    <![CDATA[Most contemporary books about the environment end up being jeremiads. They may sing the praises of the natural world, but mostly to draw attention to the ways we are destroying it. The goal is to inspire social change, but that does not always result in creative or compelling prose. How do you avoid putting readers to sleep with yet another alarming tale when you're dealing with a subject that truly is alarming? One of the many virtues of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Alan Weisman" title="Alan Weisman">Alan Weisman</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The World Without Us" title="The World Without Us">The World Without Us</a> is that it finds a brilliantly creative solution to this problem.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The science fiction-esque premise of this book is a somewhat shaky, but in the end of functional framework to hang a serial investigation into the works of modern humanity.<br/><br/>As such it's a solid education in living with the consequences of the 20th centuries choices, seasoned liberally wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34051248">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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