Martha did not lay the white egg that could have prolonged this story. Neither she nor he
wanted to hatch and then feed the little being who would have emerged—during those …

Title: Extinction studies: stories of time, death, and generations/edited by Deborah Bird
Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew. Description: New York: Columbia …

A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after
extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the …

This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that
imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary …

The story of Passenger Pigeon, and what we can learn from its demise 100 years ago.
September 1st, 2014 marked the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in …

'Utterly gripping'-The Guardian'Fascinating'-The Sunday Times' Moving'-
Scotsman'Engrossing'-Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor …

14 Undead Page 1 14 Undead Ellis Hanson Heckling from the Pit This was the shocking thing;
that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated …

History is full of people who just didn't. They said no thank you, turned away, escaped to the
desert, lived in barrels, burned down their own houses, killed their rapists, pushed away …

The current obsession with the'end of the millennium'illustrates the enduring power of the
idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply dismissed as faulty logic, a form of …

Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large
mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and …