Books of Extinction (Biology)

Introduces the concept of extinction, discussing how extinction occurs, mass extinctions from the Earth's past and possible explanations, extinctions caused by humans, and current efforts to protect the endangered species of the present.

Survival of the Unfittest: How Wisdom Will Save Humans from Falling Into Extinction

By Pam Killeen

This book outlines the multiple factors that are reducing our chances of survival, including malnutrition, vegetarianism, overexercise, xenoestrogens, Internet addiction and the high youth unemployment rate.

Life After Logging: The Impacts of Commercial Timber Extraction in Tropical Rainforests

By Friends of the Earth, Joanna Haworth, Simon Counsell

Life After Logging: The Impacts of Commercial Timber Extraction in Tropical Rainforests

Extinction: Not the End of the World?

By Steve Parker

This book discusses today's key issues, from biodiversity and conservation to the threat of human extinction, and explores the major extinction events of the past, explaining how scientists know all this.

The Great Extinctions: What Causes Them and how They Shape Life

By Norman Macleod

The Great Extinctions explores the history of the subjects, its controversies, its current conclusions, and the meaning of those conclusions for our efforts to preserve the Earth’s current biodiversity.” –Back cover.

Meteorites: Flux with Time and Impact Effects

By Monica M. Grady

The impact of extraterrestrial material on Earth can lead to effects traceable in both the geological and biological record. This study describes meteorite flux with time, covering small and large bodies capable of producing craters.

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

By Annalee Newitz

Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.