The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
576.84/KOLBERT,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
319 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780805092998 (hardback), 0805092994 (hardback)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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