The Age of Missing Information - Hardcover

McKibben, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394589335 ISBN 13: 9780394589336

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1992

Synopsis

An extended essay on what we miss by watching too much television. The author compares his experiences in a 24 hour period spent watching TV and another spent outdoors. Many might also compare (and prefer) that outdoor experience to spending time with this book. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes often for Harper's Magazine, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global-warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called "the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history." He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0394589335
• ISBN 13: 9780394589336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1