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On thin ice : the changing world of the polar bear / Richard Ellis.
Van Pelt Library QL737.C27 E47 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Richard, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polar bear.
- Polar bear--Effect of human beings on.
- Global warming.
- Global environmental change.
- Physical Description:
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Summary:
- A profile of the habitat and life cycle of the polar bear covers he species' venerated position in Inuit culture, its reproductive habits, and the environmental factors that are compromising its ability to survive.
- Contents:
- Europeans "discover" the polar bear (and the bear discovers them)
- The great ice bear
- Polar bear nations
- The Eskimo and the polar bear
- Hunting the hunter
- In the zoo and the circus
- On the whiteness of the bear
- Global warming and the bear
- Is the polar bear doomed?.
- Notes:
- "Borzoi book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-381) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307270597
- 0307270599
- OCLC:
- 316029814
- Publisher Number:
- 99935586951
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