Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change / by Kolbert, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Author's Note -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I - Nature -- 1 Shishmaref, Alaska -- 2 A Warmer Sky -- 3 Under the Glacier -- 4 The Butterfly and the Toad -- Part II - Man -- 5 The Curse of Akkad -- 6 Floating Houses -- 7 Business as Usual -- 8 The Day After Kyoto -- 9 Burlington, Vermont -- 10 Man in the Anthropocene -- Part III - Time -- 11 Ten Years On -- 12 The Darkening Sea -- 13 Unconventional Crude -- 14 The Island in the Wind -- Further Reading -- Chronology -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography and Notes -- A Note on the Author -- Copyright Page -- Backcover.…”
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