MARC details
000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
03521cam a2200409 i 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
on1204267264 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20210219122454.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
201020s2021 nyua b 000 0 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2020047398 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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YDX |
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BDX |
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OCLCF |
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TOH |
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CGL |
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ILC |
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HHO |
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YDX |
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VP@ |
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NFG |
019 ## - |
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1179047426 |
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1224589064 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780593136270 |
Qualifying information |
hardcover |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0593136276 |
Qualifying information |
hardcover |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)1204267264 |
Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)1179047426 |
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(OCoLC)1224589064 |
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
Authentication code |
pcc |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
304.28 |
Item number |
K81 |
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
Holding library |
NFGA |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kolbert, Elizabeth, |
Relator term |
author. |
9 (RLIN) |
247569 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Under a white sky : |
Remainder of title |
the nature of the future / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Elizabeth Kolbert. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
First edition. |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Crown, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2021] |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
234 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations, maps ; |
Dimensions |
22 cm |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content Type Term |
text |
Content Type Code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media Type Term |
unmediated |
Media Type Code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier Type Term |
volume |
Carrier Type Code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Down the river -- Into the wild -- Up in the air. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face"-- |
Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. One way to look at human civilization, she says, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. He she explores the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. From the Mojave to Iceland and Australia, she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. -- adapted from jacket |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Nature |
General subdivision |
Effect of human beings on. |
9 (RLIN) |
12520 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Human ecology. |
9 (RLIN) |
12518 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Environmental protection. |
9 (RLIN) |
30993 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ecological engineering. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Sustainability. |
9 (RLIN) |
165146 |
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C0 |
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NFG |