{"title":"Elizabeth Kolbert","description":"Elizabeth Kolbert is the bestselling author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, and Under a White Sky, which was named a top ten book of the year by The Washington Post. For her work at The New Yorker, where she's a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.","products":[{"product_id":"life-on-a-little-known-planet-dispatches-from-a-changing-world-hardcover","title":"Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth,\" \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e has advised, \"you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert.\" From her National Magazine Award-winning series \u003ci\u003eThe Climate of Man\u003c\/i\u003e to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e, Kolbert's work has shaped the way we think about the environment in the twenty-first century. 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We meet a biologist who believes we can talk to whales, an entomologist racing to find rare caterpillars before they disappear, and a climatologist who's considered the \"father of global warming,\" amongst other scientists at the forefront of environmental protection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe threats to our planet that Kolbert has devoted so much of her career to exposing have only grown more serious. Now is the time to deepen our understanding of the world we are in danger of losing.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376895983839,"sku":"9798217086061","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OCLxH1GrLa9798217086061.webp?v=1789228892"},{"product_id":"the-sixth-extinction-10th-anniversary-edition-an-unnatural-history-paperback","title":"The Sixth Extinction (10th Anniversary Edition): An Unnatural History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, \u003ci\u003e The Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the Sixth Extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert 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. 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