The Resource The sixth extinction : an unnatural history, Elizabeth Kolbert
The sixth extinction : an unnatural history, Elizabeth Kolbert
Resource Information
The item The sixth extinction : an unnatural history, Elizabeth Kolbert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The sixth extinction : an unnatural history, Elizabeth Kolbert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- Provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Contents
-
- Islands on dry land
- The new Pangaea
- The rhino gets an ultrasound
- The madness gene
- The thing with feathers
- The sixth extinction
- The mastodon's molars
- The original penguin
- The luck of the ammonites
- Welcome to the Anthropocene
- The sea around us
- Dropping acid
- The forest and the trees
- Isbn
- 9780805092998
- Label
- The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
- Title
- The sixth extinction
- Title remainder
- an unnatural history
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kolbert, Elizabeth
- Dewey number
- 576.8/4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QE721.2.E97
- LC item number
- K65 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mass extinctions
- Extinction (Biology)
- Environmental disasters
- Label
- The sixth extinction : an unnatural history, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Islands on dry land
- The new Pangaea
- The rhino gets an ultrasound
- The madness gene
- The thing with feathers
- The sixth extinction
- The mastodon's molars
- The original penguin
- The luck of the ammonites
- Welcome to the Anthropocene
- The sea around us
- Dropping acid
- The forest and the trees
- Control code
- ocn853618709
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805092998
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013028683
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)853618709
- Label
- The sixth extinction : an unnatural history, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Islands on dry land
- The new Pangaea
- The rhino gets an ultrasound
- The madness gene
- The thing with feathers
- The sixth extinction
- The mastodon's molars
- The original penguin
- The luck of the ammonites
- Welcome to the Anthropocene
- The sea around us
- Dropping acid
- The forest and the trees
- Control code
- ocn853618709
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9780805092998
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013028683
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)853618709
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Yuma County Foothills LibraryBorrow it13226 E. South Frontage Rd, Yuma, AZ, 85367, US32.6700283 -114.4724746
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Main Library - Yuma County Library DistrictBorrow it2951 S. 21st Dr, Yuma, AZ, 85364, US32.7053273 -114.6461849
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