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c2012., Adult, Pantheon Books Call No: 550 C537a Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it. In this riveting narrative, Childs makes clear that ours is not a stable planet, that it is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. Alternate futures, many not so pretty, are constantly waiting in the wings. Childs refutes the idea of an apocalyptic end to the earth and finds clues to its more inevitable end in some of the most physically challenging places on the globe. He travels from the deserts of Chile, the driest in the world, to the genetic wasteland of central Iowa to the site of the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, uncovering the micro-cataclysms that predict the macro: forthcoming ice ages, super-volcanoes, and the conclusion of planetary life cycles. Childs delivers a sensual feast in his descriptions of the natural world and a bounty of unequivocal science that provides us with an unprecedented understanding of our future."--Provided by publisher.
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By Grady, Waynec2006., McClelland & Stewart Call No: 304.2 G733b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2007], Grove Press Call No: 599.222 F585c Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Conservationist Flannery draws on three decades of travel, research, and field work to craft a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique and beloved inhabitants: the kangaroo. Crisscrossing the continent, Flannery shows us how the destiny of this extraordinary creature is inseparable from the environment that created it. Along the way he uses encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures and eccentric fossil hunters, farmers and scientists, kangaroo advocates and kangaroo hunters, to explore how Australia's deserts and rainforests have shaped human responses to the continent--and how kangaroos have evolved to handle the resulting challenges. A synthesis of memoir, travel, natural history, and evolutionary science.--From publisher description.
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2009., Mariner Books-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Mil Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the publisher. As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people {8212} from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers {8212} but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and finally to begin breaking into zoos across the country, where he finds solace in the presence of animals on the brink of extinction.
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[2010], Éditions J'ai lu Call No: FR Fic Hou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: J'ai lu Volume: 5602.
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-- 6th extinction :2014., Adult, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: 576.8 K81s Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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; ... it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. -- Provided by publisher.
