{"id":17824,"date":"2016-04-19T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T13:46:55","slug":"the-sixth-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/17824","title":{"rendered":"The Sixth Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Kolbert<\/a><\/strong>, journalist and author of The sixth extinction: An unnatural history<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, for which she won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction will deliver the last Contemporary Issues Lecture<\/a> of the year at 7pm on Wed, Apr 20, in the Irvin L Young Auditorium.<\/p>\n

Andersen Library has a copy of The Sixth Extinction<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QE721.2.E97 K65 2014), and UWW students and staff also may request copies from other UW campus libraries via the free UW Request<\/a> service (requested items arrive in 2-5 weekdays). A preview<\/a> is available online via Google Books.<\/p>\n

Andersen Library can help you can learn more! Other publications by Kolbert are available, including her book Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QC981.8.G56 K655 2006) and many articles, such as “Building the ark<\/a>” (National Geographic<\/em>, 2013, vol.224:no.4, pp.132-155), “Unnatural selection<\/a>” (New Yorker<\/em>, 2016, vol.92:no.10, pp.22-28), “The acid sea<\/a>” (National Geographic<\/em>, 2011, vol.219:no.4, pp.100-121), and “Enter the Anthropocene Age of Man<\/a>” (National Geographic<\/em>, 2011, vol.219:no.3, pp.60-85).<\/p>\n

There are several interviews available online, including these:<\/p>\n