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008 130114s2013 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 _a2012042409
020 _a0385535910 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _a9780385535915 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z0385535929 (ebk.)
020 _z9780385535922 (electronic)
035 _a(OCoLC)800040203
040 _aDLC
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092 _a576.84
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100 1 _aNewitz, Annalee,
_d1969-
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245 1 0 _aScatter, adapt, and remember :
_bhow humans will survive a mass extinction /
_cAnnalee Newitz.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bDoubleday,
_c[2013]
300 _a305 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aAre we all going to die? -- A history of mass extinctions. The apocalypse that brought us to life ; Two ways to go extinct ; The Great dying ; What really happened to the dinosaurs ; Is a mass extinction going on right now? -- We almost didn't make it. The African bottleneck ; Meeting the Neanderthals ; Great plagues ; The hungry generations -- Lessons from survivors. Scatter : footprints of the diaspora ; Adapt : meet the toughest microbes in the world ; Remember : swim south ; Pragmatic optimism, or, Stories of survival -- How to build a death-proof city. The mutating metropolis ; Disaster science ; Using math to stop a pandemic ; Cities that hide ; Every surface a farm -- The million-year view. Terraforming Earth ; Not in our planetary backyard ; Take a ride on the space elevator ; Your body is optional ; On Titan's beach.
520 _a"In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?"--Dust jacket flap.
650 0 _aExtinction (Biology)
_983961
650 0 _aSurvival.
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942 _cBOOK
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