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100 _a Edward O Wilson
245 _aThe Future of Life
260 _bAbacus
_c2003
300 _a xxiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
500 _aWinner of Natural World Book Prize 2002 Short-listed for Natural World Book of the Year 2002
520 _aOur world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the 21st century. E.O. Wilson describes exactly which treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and what we can do right now to save them.
650 _a Endangered species. Nature conservation. Environmental degradation.
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