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. |
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- 10 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation.
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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 | In transit | - |
Electronic resources
The Sixth Extinction
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Author Notes
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award and a National Academies communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner. She has written several books including Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography)