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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Kolbert, Elizabeth. Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History. London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ©2015 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Kolbert |
ISBN: | 1408851237 9781408851234 |
OCLC Number: | 1193555182 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2014. |
Description: | 1 online resource (319 pages :) illustrations (black and white) |
Contents: | Cover; Praise for The Sixth Extinction; Title Page; Epigraph; Contents; Prologue; Chapter I: The Sixth Extinction; Chapter II: The Mastodonâ#x80;#x99;s Molars; Chapter III: The Original Penguin; Chapter IV: The Luck of the Ammonites; Chapter V: Welcome to the Anthropocene; Chapter VI: The Sea Around Us; Chapter VII: Dropping Acid; Chapter VIII: The Forest and the Trees; Chapter IX: Islands on Dry Land; Chapter X: The New Pangaea; Chapter XI: The Rhino Gets an Ultrasound; Chapter XII: The Madness Gene; Chapter XIII: The Thing with Feathers; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography. Photo/Illustration CreditsA Note on the Author; By the Same Author; Also Available by Elizabeth Kolbert; eCopyright. |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth Kolbert. |
Abstract:
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino some already gone, others at the point of vanishing. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankinds most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolberts book urgently compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
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