The sixth extinction [sound recording] : an unnatural history / Elizabeth Kolbert.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442369450 :
- ISBN: 1442369450
- Physical Description: 8 sound discs (ca. 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Audioworks, p2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. Compact disc. Duration: 8:30:00. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director and producer, Robert Kessler ; associate producer, Joanna Solotaroff. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Anne Twomey ; with a prologue by the author. |
Summary, etc.: | Provides an 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. |
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Subject: | Mass extinctions. Extinction (Biology) Environmental disasters. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 11 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beacon Falls Public Library | AUD 576.84 KOL (Text) | 33120143469929 | Adult Fiction Audio Book | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | CDBOOK 576.8 KOLBERT, E. (Text) | 32544072332207 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | BCD 576.84 Kol (Text) | 33160102496752 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | CDBOOK 576.84 KOLBERT (Text) | 34030130256685 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | CD BK 576.8 KOL (Text) | 34014137475498 | Adult Book on CD | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
Chester Public Library | BCD 576.84 KOL (Text) | 33210000371084 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | AUDIO CD 576.84 KOL (Text) | 33400130698163 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | CD 576.84 KOL (Text) | 31953127955352 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | CDA 576.8 K (Text) | 32518129842038 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Sherman Library | ABCD 576.8 KOL (Text) | 34060116054184 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Library Journal Review
The Sixth Extinction
Library Journal
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In this deeply felt and well-researched report, Kolbert (Field Notes from a Catastrophe) argues that, unlike prior mass extinction events that were caused by natural disasters, the current accelerated disappearance of animal and plant species can be blamed on human activities. Adopting the term Anthropocene, as first coined by Eugene F. Stoermer, Kolbert contends that the advent of humans as the dominant species on Earth marks a distinct geologic age during which the environment is shaped not by nature but by humans. She further explains that environmental changes are happening at a rate faster than that which can be accommodated by normal evolutionary processes, hastening the demise of species ranging from amphibians to bats to coral reefs. The narration by Anne Twomey is solid, if occasionally robotic. verdict An important book, highly recommended. ["This solid, engaging, multidisciplinary science title should appeal to a broad range of science enthusiasts, particularly those interested in environmental conservation," read the starred review of the Holt hc, LJ 2/15/14.]-Forrest E. Link, Coll. of New Jersey, Ewing Twp. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
New York Times Review
The Sixth Extinction
New York Times
December 14, 2014
Copyright (c) The New York Times Company
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert/Henry Holt & Company, $28. Kolbert reports from the front lines of the violent collision between civilization and our planet's ecosystem - from the Great Barrier Reef to her own backyard - in this, her third, book. Traveling to some of the world's remotest corners, she examines how man-made climate change threatens to eliminate 20 to 50 percent of all living species on earth within this century. This is environmental writing at its most rigorous and richly detailed - and as riveting as any thriller.