Diane Ackerman

We are thrilled to welcome Emmy Award-winner Randy Cohen, widely known as the original writer of “The Ethicist” for New York Times Magazine, back to Poets House for a second live recording of his beloved public radio show, which interviews popular public figures about one person, place, and thing they find meaningful. Poet, essayist, and naturalist, guest Diane Ackerman is the author of two dozen works of nonfiction and poetry.Join us for a special evening of live music and great stories. (rmharris)… (more)

Adventures by the Book is pleased to announce that renowned author Diane Ackerman has been selected as the 2015 Carlsbad Reads author, and you are invited to the launch event. Join Diane as she discusses and signs her newest book, The human age: The World Shaped by Us. In this landmark book, Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. It takes the reader on an exciting journey to understand this bewildering new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating, perhaps saving, our future. Carlsbad Reads Together brings community members together and engages them in discussion about the same book at the same time.

Location: Street: Carlsbad City Library Additional: 1775 Dove Lane City: Carlsbad, Province: California Postal Code: 92011 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join New York Times bestselling author, Diane Ackerman, for a reading and signing of her new book, The human age.

Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented reality that one prodigiously intelligent and meddlesome creature, Homo sapiens, is now the dominant force shaping the future of planet Earth. Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness." We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a "frozen ark," equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us. With her distinctive gift for making scientific discovery intelligible to the layperson, Ackerman takes us on an exhilarating journey through our new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating-perhaps saving-our future and that of our fellow creatures.

A beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives, The human age is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.

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Location: Street: 210 East 400 South Additional: Salt Lake City Main Library City: Salt Lake City, Province: Utah Postal Code: 84111 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

From dams to urban sprawl, genetically engineered species to artificial intelligence, the very shape of the planet and its creatures have become as much products of human design as they are the givens of nature. In her tour of the world as we continue to remake it, Ackerman, bestselling author of The Zookeeper’s Wife, A Natural History of the Senses, and many others, celebrates human creativity. (W.W. Norton)

Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

What's better than talking about a book with a group of friends? Talk about a book with a group of friends during Happy Hour at Opa (2050 S. Lamar Blvd)! Come hang out with Mandy and Joel the last Thursday of every month at 5:30pm where we'll discuss books over cocktails. This month's book is The zookeeper's wife By Diane Ackerman. (Due to Halloween, we're meeting one day early this month, on Wednesday 10/30.)

Monthly book club picks are 10% off for people who attend the discussion!

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Diane Ackerman discusses One Hundred Names for Love.

Bestselling author of THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE, DAWN LIGHT, A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES and others has written her memoir based on the experience she shared when her husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he suffered with aphasia—loss of language—and could utter only a single syllable. The standard therapies produced little results and Diane soon found that by using their deep knowledge of each other and her scientific understanding of language and the brain, she could guide Paul back to the world of words. This book is both a medical miracle story and a love story that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart; and reminds us that healing is possible and that lives can be rebuilt. (jasbro)… (more)

Diane Ackerman reads from One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing.

Tuesday, April 5, 6:00 p.m., Rabb Lecture Hall, Diane Ackerman on One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage and the Language of Healing In One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage and the Language of Healing, Diane Ackerman explains how she discovered that with love and scientific understanding, she could guide her husband back to the world of words after he suffered a disabling stroke. Ackerman is a poet, essayist, and naturalist; and is the author of over two dozen works of nonfiction and poetry, including the acclaimed A Natural History of the Senses. (timspalding)… (more)