Sharon Levy

Once & Future Giants

What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals

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Produktbeschreibung

At the close of the last Ice Age - right as the first humans reached the Americas - a whole menagerie of giant beasts vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, Sharon Levy argues that understanding this mass extinction will be critical to the protection of threatened species worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9780199931163
• ISBN-10: 019993116X
• Artikelnr.: 36126876

Autorenporträt

Sharon Levy is a freelance science writer who specializes in making natural resource and conservation issues accessible for a broad audience. She is a contributing editor at OnEarth magazine and writes regularly for National Wildlife, BioScience, and New Scientist. Her work has appeared in Nature, Natural History, Audubon, High Country News, and Discovery Channel Online. She lives in Humboldt County, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Elegy for the Mastodon
2. Mammoth Tracks
3. Giants Down Under
4. Wild Dreams
5. Wild Realities
6. The Big Heat
7. Dead Beasts Walking
References
Index