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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History [Audiobook] download free by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Audiobook download free by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Listen audiobook: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Release date: 2014/8/5
  • Publisher: HENRY HOLT & COMPANY
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
  • ISBN: 9780805092998
  • Rating: 8.6 of 10
  • Votes: 630
  • Review by: Ricky Fernandez
  • Review rating: 9.13 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/8
  • Duration: 4H2M41S in 256 kbps (63.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-31
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP4, WMA, MPEG4, ATRAC, FLAC, MP3 (compression CHM, RAR, ZIP, ACE, AZW, CPIO, CBR)
  • Total pages original book: 319
  • Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 21M47S (5.6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA 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 eyesOver 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 Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert 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; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Biodiversity, Applied Ecology, Evolution, Social Impact Of Environmental Issues, Social Forecasting, Future Studies, Endangered Species & Extinction Of Species, Earth: Natural History General, Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology, Natural History Books
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 32.87 USD
  • Dimensions: 162x243x28mm
  • Weight: 567g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New York, United States

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