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Elizabeth Kolbert, Wesley Allsbrook (illus.)
Climate change resists narrative and yet we must see clearly what's happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act
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Elizabeth Kolbert
Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we’ve had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world’s forests…
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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…
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD…
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"In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
The tenth-anniversary edition of the multiaward-winning book The Sixth Extinction features a new epilogue. Elizabeth Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the…
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In twenty-six essays--one for each letter of the alphabet--the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a haunting journey through the history of climate change and the…
In this young readers edition of the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the…
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE…
An anthology of accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole.
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert’s career as an environmental writer–updated with three new chapters and timed to publish with the paperback of her bestselling The…
A brilliant description of the realities of global warming and a passionate plea for action while there is still time
Portions of this work originally appeared in The New Yorker –T.p. verso.
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time…
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Originally published in hardcover the United States by Crown…in 2021 –Title page verso.
In this young readers adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet…
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of…
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The Sixth Extinction: by Elizabeth Kolbert - Key Takeaways, Analysis & ReviewPreview The Sixth Extinction is a book by award winning journalist, Elizabeth Kolbert. In this book, the author…
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Sixth Extinction tells you what you need to know–before or after you read Elizabeth Kolbert’s book.
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Writers on Earth is a collection of reflections, essays, stories, and poems that captures the heart of Gen Z’s relationship with the environmental issues of the 21st century.
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Joel Sartore
Joel Sartore’s quest to photograph all the animal species under human care celebrates its 15th year.
Marco Tedesco,Alberto Flores d'Arcais
A pioneering glaciologist’s illuminating account of a single day’s work researching in the Arctic, capturing the urgency of his work and revealing the secret history and ever-more-inevitable future of Greenland’s…
Marco Tedesco
A pioneering researcher’s illuminating account of Arctic ice–its secret history and dire future Barely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues…
Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.
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David Liittschwager
Features photographs that take us to places both familiar and exotic and instill new awareness of the life that abounds all around.
