Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History

Name: Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History
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ISBN: 9780805092998

ISBN-10: 0805092994

ISBN-13: 9780805092998

Edition: 2014

Authors: Elizabeth Kolbert

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A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Mastodon's Molars , two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 2/11/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.49" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award and a National Academies communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner. She has written several books including Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.