Book: The World Without Us
Author: Alan Weisman
Reviewer: Michael Andrew Kastellec, NCSU Libraries Fellow

Fascinating and well-written, with both breadth and depth.  Weisman avoids the preachy tone which colors so many other books on the environment.  In fact, it’s only subtly Environmentalist — I appreciate the way it’s so factual and plainly stated (but not dry!), showing the world as it is, not as how anyone might want it to be.  It sort of backs into the imperative that something has to change, or else we’re doomed.  And yet it’s not a depressing book.  Just go read it. I bet you’ll like it.