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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101620409887

ISBN-139781620409886

eBay Product ID (ePID)202565648

Product Key Features

Book TitleField Notes from a Catastrophe : Man, Nature, and Climate Change

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicEnvironmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), General, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Science

AuthorElizabeth Kolbert

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsIf you have time this year for just one book on science, nature, or the environment, this should be it., "Among the few irreplaceable volumes yet written about climate change." -- Boston Globe "If you have time this year for just one book on science, nature, or the environment, this should be it." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "A perfect primer on global warming. It might be the most important book you read this year." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Among the few irreplaceable volumes yet written about climate change." -Bill McKibben, Boston Globe "If you have time this year for just one book on science, nature, or the environment, this should be it." - San Diego Union-Tribune "A perfect primer on global warming. It might be the most important book you read this year." - Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Among the few irreplaceable volumes yet written about climate change." -- Bill McKibben, Boston Globe "If you have time this year for just one book on science, nature, or the environment, this should be it." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "A perfect primer on global warming. It might be the most important book you read this year." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Dewey Decimal363.738/74

SynopsisA new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" ( Boston Globe ). Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker . She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. But in the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding grows. Now, Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She has added a chapter bringing things up-to-date on the existing text, plus three new chapters--on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral--making it, again, a must-read for our moment., A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters and timed to publish with the paperback of her bestselling The Sixth Extinction .

LC Classification NumberQC981.8.G56K655 2015