Extinction


The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Last Chance to See
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
Dodo: A Brief History
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Migrations
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
The Ends of the World
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. OakesLost Feast by Lenore NewmanThe End of the Long Summer by Dianne DumanoskiOcean of Life by Callum RobertsInheritors of the Earth by Chris D. Thomas
THE 6th EXTINCTION
7 books — 2 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiWilding by Isabella TreeFeral by George Monbiot
Rewilding
80 books — 55 voters

Uprooted by Peter J. BoniWriting Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-LughodThe Resonance of Unseen Things by Susan LepselterSwamplife by Laura A. OgdenThe Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
MSU Cultural Anthropology
58 books — 3 voters
I Am Legend by Richard MathesonThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizziLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferThe Last Human by Lee Bacon
Last Human(s)
41 books — 16 voters

The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives by Alan TurnerMammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi AgustíSabertooth by Mauricio AntónDogs by Xiaoming WangThe Cave Bear Story by Björn Kurtén
Prehistoric Mammals in Nonfiction
41 books — 18 voters

Christopher Hitchens
I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew who she was. No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships—gone. She went on living, but with a tabula rasa as he ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

It is certain that such a revolution in thought - that is, such an expansion of consciousness, such an evolution of intelligence - is not the result of a whim. It is in fact a question of a cosmic influence to which the earth, along with everything in it, is subjected. A phase in the gestation of the planetary particle of our solar system is completed. Gaston Bachelard observes, in this connection, what he calls “a mutation of Spirit.” A new period must begin, and this is heralded by seismic mov ...more
Schwaller de Lubicz

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