The Sixth Extinction. An Unnatural History (Kolbert Elizabeth); Bloomsbury, 2015

A major book about the future of the world, blending natural history, field reporting and the history of ideas and into a powerful account of the mass extinction happening today

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth.

Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species – including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino – some already gone, others at the point of vanishing.

The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolbert's book urgently compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781408851241
Автор(ы)	Kolbert Elizabeth
Вес	0.26
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2015
Жанр	нехудожественная литература
Издатель	Bloomsbury
Издательство	Bloomsbury
Кол-во страниц	324
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	324
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая