Extinction (Biology)
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Extinct & Endangered: Insects in Peril
$45.00 Read moreExtraordinary images by master macro photographer Levon Biss capture a vanishing world of insects from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York
Insects are at once our mo- Author: Biss, Levon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1419759639
- Language: English
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Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic
$22.95 Read moreExploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change–thawing permafrost–and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
Climate scientists point to permafrost as a
- Author: Wrigley, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911826
- Language: English
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A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
$29.95 Read moreFollowing the trails of Hawai’i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction.
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet- Author: Van Dooren, Thom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0262047020
- Language: English
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Extinction: A Radical History
$16.95 Read moreWith a new introduction by the author
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and ar
- Author: Dawson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1682192997
- Language: English
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The Late, Great Endlings: Stories of the Last Survivors
$21.95 Read more★”This beautiful dedication to these special animals brings the reality and the irreversible finality of extinction to the forefront and calls on readers to act now, before so many other animals
- Author: Kerbel, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 145982766X
- Language: English
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If Polar Bears Disappeared
$19.99 Read moreThe freezing ecosystem in the far north of the globe is home to many different kinds of animals. They can be
Strong, like a walrus
Tough, like a lemming
Resilient, like an arctic fox But no arctic anima- Series: If Animals Disappeared
- Author: Williams, Lily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1250143195
- Language: English
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Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
$16.95 Read moreAt once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore’s distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climat… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095306
- Language: English
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Extinction: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMost people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct…. [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wignall, Paul B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0198807287
- Language: English
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Extinction: Our Fragile Relationship with Life on Earth
$45.00 Add to cartSchlossman combines unique photographs of specimens from the Field Museum in Chicago with informative and insightful text about the species themselves, reasons for decline and the conservation efforts… [more below]
- Author: Schlossman, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1781454531
- Language: English
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
$19.95 Add to cartSixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized de
- Series: Princeton Science Library #39
- Author: Alvarez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169667
- Language: English
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Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
$39.95 Add to cartTrilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled marine invertebrates inhabited the primal seas of
- Author: Secher, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 023120096X
- Language: English
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
$14.95 Add to cartAn insider’s view on bringing extinct species back to life
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary- Series: Princeton Science Library #107
- Author: Shapiro, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209006
- Language: English
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The History of Bees
$20.00 Add to cart“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) novel follow… [more below]
- Author: Lunde, Maja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1501161385
- Language: English
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Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
$34.95 Add to cartThis timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed ou
- Author: Benton, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0500025460
- Language: English
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The Sixth Extinction (Young Readers Adaptation): An Unnatural History
$24.99 Add to cartIn 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 in
- Author: Kolbert, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250793424
- Language: English
