Maloney, Brenna
Summary: "A humorous and engaging nonfiction book about bugs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 639.97 MALHannibal, Mary Ellen
Summary: "Award-winning writer Mary Ellen Hannibal has long reported on scientists' efforts to protect vanishing species, but it was only through citizen science that she found she could take action herself. As she wades into tide pools, spots hawks, and scours mountains, she discovers the power of heroic volunteers who are helping scientists measure-- and even slow-- today's unprecedented mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Th Experiment, LLC 2017
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Summary: "In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 BLARusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big onesyet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T. rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, and beyond. De-extinction - the ability to bring extinct species back to life - is fast becoming reality. Around the globe, scientists are trying to de-extinct all manner of animals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Nat PilcherSummary: "Information about some of the more important and interesting extinct animals, including the animal's common name and scientific name; also includes a glossary, additional resources, and an index"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer company 2014
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Summary: "A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth. Drawing on the latest research, this timely and original book lays out the current scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics and geology have transformed our knowledge of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously"--Publisher's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 BENKolbert, Elizabeth.
Summary: Draws on the work of geologists, botanists, marine biologists, and other researchers to discuss the five devastating mass extinctions on Earth and predicts the coming of a sixth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 KOLGísli Pálsson
Summary: "The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. G?sli P?lsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 598.33 GISBarnosky, Anthony D
Summary: Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs the way humans inhabit, exploit, and impact Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 BARWalsh, Bryan
Summary: What is going to cause our extinction? How can we save ourselves and our future? End Times answers the most important questions facing humankind. End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable--and inevitable--end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, 15-year veteran...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WALPowell, James Lawrence
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Freeman 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 POWWard, Peter Douglas
Summary: Presents the results of his investigations into the history of life and death on earth, describing three previous mass extinctions and evaluating the present devastation in which countless species are coming to the end of their evolution due to human action. --Book News, Inc.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 WARFlannery, Timothy Fridtjof
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Publisher / Publication Date: Braziller 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.9 FLAErickson, Jon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkmark Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 ERIFrankel, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.397 FRARaup, David M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560 RAUBright, Michael.
Summary: Introduces the concept of extinction, discussing how extinction occurs, mass extinctions from the Earth's past and possible explanations, extinctions caused by humans, and current efforts to protect the endangered species of the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.84 BRINewitz, Annalee
Summary: A speculative work suggests ways to promote the human race's survival of a mass extinction induced by climate change, pandemics, and catastrophic natural disasters, citing innovations ranging from the bacteria labs of St. Louis to the underground cities of central Turkey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 NEWFlannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof)
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.222 FLABarrow, Mark V.
Summary: As Mark V. Barrow Jr. reveals in "Nature's Ghosts", the threat of species loss has haunted Americans since the early days of the republic. Barrow shows how Americans came to understand that it was not only possible for entire species to die out, but that humans themselves could be responsible for their extinction. These fascinating stories of endangered animals and the dedicated individuals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2009
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Summary: "A book for young readers about how climate change is related to the extinction or potential extinction of many plants and animals."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1996
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Summary: "What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth. By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our geological awakening, of humanity's epic struggle to understand the nature of deep time, the meaning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TED Books, Simon & Schuster 2017