This is the second picture book of b.wing published by SCMP Books. This time, b.wing is going to delve into another life issue with her readers. 'Let me tell you a little story, about the boy, A: he has narrow sloping shoulders and he spends most of his time with his star. This summer, he is petrified. All of a sudden, maybe his world is not so bad after all? Saying goodbye is never easy. I look and wave my hand in the air. I can still feel the ethereal kiss on my cheek. I am counting my fingers and hoping that you might stay. To get every second, minute, hour and day for life is short. Trying to go on like life is normal. It is a war that goes on in my heart and nobody will ever know. Dear B, Just for your information, I will walk to the moon and be back if it makes you smile. I will talk to you just so I can hear your voice again. The other day, I heard that it was supposed to be the end of the world this year (!) This made me think to myself that I don't want to die without you next to me, but the worth thing is, what if we both survived but we were still so far apart and didn't know if the other was alive? I guess I'd better walk to the moon fast. Wave and smile, A

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York’s subways would start eroding the city’s foundations, and how, as the world’s cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dali Lama, and paleontologists---who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths---Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth’s tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman’s narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.