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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kress, W. John, editor. | Stine, Jeffrey K., editor.

Title: Living in the anthropocene : earth in the age of humans / edited by W. John Kress and Jeffrey K. Stine; foreword by Elizabeth Kolbert; afterword by Edward O. Wilson; essays by Richard B. Alley [and others].

Description: Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, in association with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016059274 | ISBN 9781588346018 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781588346025 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Human ecology. | Nature—Effect of human beings on. | Global environmental change.

Classification: LCC GF75 .L575 2017 | DDC 304.2—dc23

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