{"product_id":"scatter-adapt-and-remember-how-humans-will-survive-a-mass-extinction-9780307949424","title":"Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize Finalist in Science \u0026amp; Technology\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? In this brilliantly speculative work of popular science, Annalee Newitz, editor of io9.com, explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. \u003ci\u003eScatter, Adapt, and Remember\u003c\/i\u003e explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow, from simulating tsunamis or studying central Turkey's ancient underground cities, to cultivating cyanobacteria for \"living cities\" or designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever our future holds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annalee Newitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307949424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014 pg. 468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnalee Newitz is the founding editor of the science Web site io9.com and a journalist with a decade's experience in writing about science, culture, and the future for such publications as \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePopular Science\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eShe's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Geeky Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Annalee Newitz \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48552034992285,"sku":"9780307949424","price":26.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_657f0795-522f-4d0d-bb0d-29e3d6af2090.jpg?v=1782827969","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/scatter-adapt-and-remember-how-humans-will-survive-a-mass-extinction-9780307949424","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}