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Author: Ruth Soffer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1997-07-10
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780486298931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"44 realistic, accurately rendered illustrations of plants and animals found in the polar regions" -- Cover verso.
Author: Ruth Soffer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0486494306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForty-four realistic illustrations: terns, humpback whales, baby harp seals, a sea spider, king and emperor penguins, and other creatures of the polar regions. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 3–5.
Author: Barbara Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 0789458500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows and describes wildlife found in the Polar regions, looks at Inuit clothing and artifacts, and depicts the equipment used by Polar explorers.
Author: Wendy Trusler
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0062395041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis stunning chronicle of the first civilian Antarctic clean-up project, with contemporary and historic anecdotes and photographs, journal entries, and more than forty delicious recipes, is an intricately woven ode to the last wilderness. With more than 130 full-color photographs
Author: Jeffrey D Stilwell
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2011-10-12
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 064310402X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo other continent on Earth has undergone such radical environmental changes as Antarctica. In its transition from rich biodiversity to the barren, cold land of blizzards we see today, Antarctica provides a dramatic case study of how subtle changes in continental positioning can affect living communities, and how rapidly catastrophic changes can come about. Antarctica has gone from paradise to polar ice in just a few million years, a geological blink of an eye when we consider the real age of Earth. Frozen in Time presents a comprehensive overview of the fossil record of Antarctica framed within its changing environmental settings, providing a window into a past time and environment on the continent. It reconstructs Antarctica’s evolving animal and plant communities as accurately as the fossil record permits. The story of how fossils were first discovered in Antarctica is a triumph of human endeavour. It continues today with modern expeditions going out to remote sites every year to fill in more of the missing parts of the continent’s great jigsaw of life.
Author: Maggie Kate
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1998-12-23
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 0486404641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompilation of 688 black-and-white illustrations from 16 Dover nature coloring books.
Author: Lloyd Spencer Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1643131710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today’s leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers. George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history. A century later, Lloyd Spencer Davis rediscovers Levick and his findings during the course of his own scientific adventures in Antarctica. Levick’s long-suppressed manuscript reveals not only an incredible survival story, but one that will change our understanding of an entire species. A Polar Affair reveals the last untold tale from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. It is perhaps the greatest of all of those stories—but why was it hidden to begin with? The ever-fascinating and charming penguin holds the key. Moving deftly between both Levick’s and Davis’s explorations, observations, and comparisons in biology over the course of a century, A Polar Affair reveals cutting-edge findings about ornithology, in which the sex lives of penguins are the jumping-off point for major new insights into the underpinnings of evolutionary biology itself.
Author: Dover Publications Inc
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2005-02-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 0486996697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith more than 400 accurate black-and-white renderings of 310 species from around the world, this collection will appeal to designers and craftspeople as well as to nature enthusiasts. Includes the Anhinga, Bateleur, Chickadee, American Black Duck, Bald Eagle, Purple Finch, Gadwall, Killdeer, Lammergeier, Mallard, Oldsquaw, Pigeon, Robin, Shoebill, Towhee, and many more.
Author: Lisa E. Bloom
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2022-08-08
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 147801864X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant melting ice and desperate polar bears, artists such as Katja Aglert, Subhankar Banerjee, Joyce Campbell, Judit Hersko, Roni Horn, Isaac Julien, Zacharias Kunuk, Connie Samaras, and activist art collectives take a more complex poetic and political approach. In their films and visual and conceptual art, these artists link climate change to its social roots in colonialism and capitalism while challenging the suppression of information about environmental destruction and critiquing Western art institutions for their complicity. Bloom’s examination and contextualization of new polar aesthetics makes environmental degradation more legible while demonstrating that our own political agency is central to imagining and constructing a better world.
Author: Madeleine Dunphy
Publisher: Web of Life Children's Book
Published: 2012-10-24
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0988330202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPenguins, whales, seals, fish, and many other animals are all part of Antarctica’s food web. In this striking picture book, Madeleine Dunphy uses a cumulative approach, combining lyrical verse with repetition to reveal the region's interdependency of life. Tom Leonard's gorgeous illustrations, from the flash of orange on a penguin's beak to iridescent icebergs jutting from the sea, capture a wondrous miracle — the circle of life. Here Is Antarctica educates as it entertains, inspiring children to explore this fascinating ecosystem page by page.
