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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Sixth Extinction

By Elizabeth Kolbert ,

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Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
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Earth's Wild Music

By Kathleen Dean Moore ,

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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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The Ends of the World

By Peter Brannen ,

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What We Owe the Future
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What We Owe the Future

By William MacAskill ,

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The Riddle of the Dinosaur
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The Riddle of the Dinosaur

By John Noble Wilford ,

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Prehistoric Animals
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Prehistoric Animals

By J. Augusta , Z. Burian ,

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Extinct Birds
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Extinct Birds

By Julian Hume ,

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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

By Annalee Newitz ,

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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

By Walter Alvarez ,

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The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
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The Worst of Times

By Paul B. Wignall ,

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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

By Lisa Randall ,

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Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
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Extinctions

By Michael Hannah ,

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The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
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The Human Planet

By Simon L. Lewis , Mark A. Maslin ,

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Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution
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Life on Earth

By Steve Jenkins ,

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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution
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How to Build a Dinosaur

By Jack Horner , James Gorman ,

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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
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How to Clone a Mammoth

By Beth Shapiro ,

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Rebirding: Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation: Restoring Britain's Wildlife
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Rebirding

By Benedict MacDonald ,

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The Ghost in the Machine: Poems of Love, Loss, Life and Death
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The Ghost in the Machine

By Barbara Lennox ,

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The History of Bees
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The History of Bees

By Maja Lunde ,

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Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals
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Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals

By Daniel Hudon ,

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Evolving Planet: Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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Evolving Planet

By Erica Kelly , Richard Kissel ,

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The Cave Bear Story: Life and Death of a Vanished Animal
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The Cave Bear Story

By Björn Kurtén ,

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Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found
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Tyrannosaurus Sue

By Steve Fiffer ,

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The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History
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The Fate of the Mammoth

By Claudine Cohen , William Rodarmor (translator) ,

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Extinct Birds
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Extinct Birds

By Errol Fuller ,

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Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics
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Why Most Things Fail

By Paul Ormerod ,

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Project Hannibal
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Project Hannibal

By Kathryn Hoff ,

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Where You Linger & Other Stories
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Where You Linger & Other Stories

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To 2040
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To 2040

By Jorie Graham ,

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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
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Hope for Animals and Their World

By Jane Goodall , Thane Maynard , Gail Hudson

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Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody
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Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody

By Charles Panati ,

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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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The Island of Dr. Moreau

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