Main entry:

Kolbert, Elizabeth, author.

Title & Author:

The sixth extinction : an unnatural history / Elizabeth Kolbert.

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Publication:

New York : Picador, Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
©2014

Description:

319 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index.
Author's note -- Prologue -- I: The sixth extinction -- II: The mastodon's molars -- III. The original penguin -- IV. The luck of the ammonites -- V: Welcome to the anthropocene -- VI: The sea around us -- VII: Dropping acid -- VIII: The forest and the trees -- IX: Islands on dry land -- X: The new Pangaea -- XI: The rhino gets an ultrasound -- XII: The madness gene -- XIII: The thing with feathers -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Photo/Illustration credits -- Index.
Pulitzer Prize, 2015.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Reproduction of (manifestation): Kolbert, Elizabeth. Sixth extinction. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014 (DLC) 2013028683

Summary:

Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. She provides a moving account of the disappearances of various species occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up to Lyell and Darwin, and 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.

ISBN:

9781250062185 (pbk.)
1250062187 (pbk.)
9780805092998
0805092994
9780805093117
0805093117
9780805099799
0805099794
9781408851234
1408851237
9781408851227
1408851229
9781408851210
1408851210
9781408857113
1408857111

Subject:

Mass extinctions.
Extinction (Biology)
Environmental disasters.
Human ecology.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Extinct animals.
Extinction, Biological
Extinctions massives.
Extinction (Biologie)
Catastrophes écologiques.
Écologie humaine.
Homme Influence sur la nature.
man-made disasters.
human ecology.
SCIENCE Environmental Science.
SCIENCE Life Sciences Evolution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293701
Call No.: BIB 238852
Status: Available