HALF-EARTH : our planet's fight for Life
by Wilson Edward O
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1631490826
- ISBN 13
- 9781631490828
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,, 2016. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,. cloth, dust jacket, 259 pages : illustrations , first edition (so stated) CONTENTS:The problem. The world ends, twice ; Humanity needs a biosphere ; How much biodiversity survives today? ; An elegy for the rhinos ; Apocalypses now ; Are we as gods? ; Why extinction is accelerating ; The impact of climate change : land, sea, and air ; The most dangerous worldview - The real living world. Conservation science ; The Lord God species ; The unknown webs of life ; The wholly different aqueous world ; The invisible empire ; The best places in a biosphere ; History redefined -- The solution. The awakening ; Restoration ; Half-earth : how to save the biosphere ; Threading the bottleneck ; What must be done..
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- Bookseller
- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11257078
- Title
- HALF-EARTH : our planet's fight for Life
- Author
- Wilson Edward O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1631490826
- ISBN 13
- 9781631490828
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 2016
- Size
- 8 vo,
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Environmentalism.Biodiversity conservationBiosphere reserves..Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
About Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Mail order only. 51 years as a bookseller
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