Author: Michael Boulter
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: man, evolution, extinction
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0231128371
ISBN-13: 9780231128377

The head of the team analyzing Fossil Record 2, the largest database of information on extinct animals and plants, brings us a thoroughly researched introduction to the new developments in the science of life and a chilling account of the effects that humans have had on the planet based on his experience and research.

Author: Albert Barume
Publisher: IWGIA
Keywords: extinction, towards, heading
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 8790730313
ISBN-13: 9788790730314

Author: David Black
Publisher: Forge Books
Keywords: event, extinction
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-05-25
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0765322617
ISBN-13: 9780765322616

After Jack Slidell’s discovery of his law partner’s death in an apparent drug/sex killing, he and the beautiful Caroline Wonder are suddenly hurled into a race for their lives, a hair-raising odyssey filled with outrageous characters and violent suspense.  Hit men and sinister government agencies hunt them at every turn, but their quest for justice determines more than the guilt or innocence of a dead friend: the fate of the earth and humanity’s survival hang in the balance.A page-burning, pulse-pounding chase-thriller of earth-shattering dimensions, The Extinction Event is

Author: Ray Brassier
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: extinction, enlightenment, unbound, nihil
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2010-03-15
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 023052205X
ISBN-13: 9780230522053

This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the ’post-analytic’ consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism.

Author: Jeremy Robert Johnson
Publisher: Swallowdown Press
Keywords: journals, extinction
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2006-04-17
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1933929014
ISBN-13: 9781933929019

You can survive a nuclear blast. All you need is some luck, and maybe a customized business suit coated in cockroaches. It could work. At least that’s what Dean believed before the bombs actually dropped and his suit led him to murder a Very Important Man at the foot of a blackened obelisk. Now D.C. is looking awfully empty. Life on Earth is pretty much coming to an end. All of which leaves Dean with a single question-"What now?" The answer to that question will take him on an uncanny voyage across a newly nuclear America where he must confront the problems associated with lonel

Authors:John H. Lawton, Robert M. May,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: rates, extinction
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1995-02-09
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 019854829X
ISBN-13: 9780198548294

As the need increases for sound estimates of impending rates of animal and plant species extinction, scientists must have a firm grounding in the qualitative and quantitative methods required to make the best possible predictions. Extinction Rates offers the most wide-ranging and practical introduction to those methods available. With contributions from an international cast of leading experts, the book combines cutting-edge information on recent and past extinction rates with treatments of underlying ecological and evolutionary causes. Throughout, it highlights apparent differences in extinc

Author: David M. Raup
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: luck, genes, extinction
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1992-11-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393309274
ISBN-13: 9780393309270

The science of extinction is a lively and moveable feast of scientific speculation and research. Scientist/author David Raup takes the subject of nature’s disappearing act to task, covering everything from the Ice Age Blitzkreig to the fate of the marshes on Martha’s Vineyard, the extinction of flying reptiles to mankind’s impact on tropical reefs. Graphs.