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Book of Sixth Extension: A Natural History
Writer: Elisabeth Kolbert
Publishers: Main Library Gramedia
Mold: 2020
Page: 312 pgs
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
Condition: New, original, and sealed book
Price: Rp. 108.000

Synopsis:
For the last half billion years, it has occurred five life mass extinctions on Earth. The artists around the world now monitor the sixth extinction, predict to the largest since the asteroid collision that emits dinosaur. Elizabeth Kolbert combines direct coverage from the field, notion history, as well as the works of geologists, botanicals, and marine biology to convey a dozen species-including Panama gold frog and silk rhinoceros-some are destroyed, almost exhausted. The sixth extermination can be the most lanna heritage of humanity survive, and Elizabeth Kolbert book forces us to think again regarding basic questions: what it means to be human.
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"Awesome Books and shows clearly that sudden major changes can happen and not something impossible. It used to happen, and it could happen again:"
- Obama Barack

"Amaze... The author shows on his book pages that he can write an elegy poetry regarding creatures suffering on the planet, but the actual power of his book is in the harsh science and historical context he presents, recording the immense loss caused by Human."
- The New York Times

"Scientist Paraes declare that there has been a linena of great extinction events throughout Earth history (think the asteroids that separate dinosaur), and Kolbert indicate that human activities cause sixth:'
- Bill Gates