The Red Book: the extinction crisis face to face.

Gland: Cemex/IUCN, 2001.
Large quarto, dustwrapper, 310 pp. 256 colour photographs.

This publication combines awe-inspiring imagery with soild science and factual accounts. Drawing on the 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species, the world's most objective and authoritative inventory of species at risk of extinction, it describes the extinction process, its causes, and the measures needed to reverse it in terms accessible to everyone.