The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Book by Elizabeth Kolbert
Originally published: February 11, 2014
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
Genres: Non-fiction and Popular science
Dewey Decimal: 576.8/4
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9299-8
LC Class: QE721.2.E97 K65 2014
Pages: 319
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In a vivid chapter Kolbert locates an artificial ecosystem set up by scientists in Panama where the last few hundred golden frogs survive. By now the fungus is ...
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The Sixth Extinction. An Unnatural History. Author: Elizabeth Kolbert. Award Winner. Awards. NPR Best Book of the Year; L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner; Pulitzer ...
The book argues that the Earth is in the midst of a modern, man-made, sixth extinction. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and ...
A remarkable work of nonfiction storytelling that exposes the cascade of blunders that doomed America's misbegotten intervention in Afghanistan. Age of Ambition ...
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Feb 11, 2014 · In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, The New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings ...
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A harrowing look at the damage humanity can do, The Sixth Extinction uses science and billions of years of evidence to create a compelling and damning narrative ...
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The real meat of the book is Kolbert's travels to different parts of the world and her reporting of what seem like extinctions of specific species. In one ...
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7 days ago · Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.