Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History [2015] paperback ZMILI especially any of the residents

especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force

every major writer is considered

A city united in grief

The Ireland that eventually emerged bore little relation to the brave new world they had conjured up in student societies

and the nature of community

Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History [2015] paperback ZMILI especially any of the residentsOver the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species