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Author : Mary M. Cerullo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0884482472
Follows marine photographer Bill Curtsinger as he dives under the ice at Antarctica to learn about the plants and animals that thrive in this extreme habitat.
Author : Norbert Wu,Jim Mastro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Marine biology
ISBN : 9780520235045
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Author : Veronika Meduna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300187007
Documents the scientific explorations of Antarctica, examining its unique climate, natural environment, and native life forms, and discusses how these studies can affect research in climate change, microbiology, and life on other planets.
Author : Alun Anderson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780061942549
New from Smithsonian Books, After the Ice is an eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to native peoples to animals and the very landscape itself. Author Alun Anderson explores the effects of global warming amid new geopolitical rivalries, combining science, business, politics, and adventure to provide a fascinating narrative portrait of this rapidly changing land of unparalleled global significance.
Author : Jean McNeil
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770908765
What do we stand to lose in a world without ice? A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent, Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth which is nobody's country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil's years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent. In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph.
Author : Mary M. Cerullo
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0884482464
Follows marine photographer Bill Curtsinger as he dives under the ice at Antarctica to learn about the plants and animals that thrive in this extreme habitat.
Author : Jayne Torvill,Christopher Dean
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471138713
When Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean collapsed to the ice at the climax of their routine to Bolero in the 1984 Winter Olympics, the judges could find no fault, awarding them 12 maximum scores of 6.0, while 24 million viewers watching at home in Britain simply looked on in amazement. Suddenly, we were all experts in figure skating, and we wanted to know more about the couple at the heart of it all. Despite intense interest in them, Torvill & Dean kept their lives private, with many still wondering if the pair were really a couple. They turned professional and would eventually spend eight years working on ITV's Dancing on Ice, but still much of their story remained unknown. Now, in Our Life on Ice, Torvill & Dean finally open up about the challenges they have faced and the pressures of life in the public eye: Jayne speaks candidly about her struggle with husband Phil to start a family, while Chris reveals the heartache in his family story. And of course, there is the skating, and the stories about what inspired their famous routines, and what the pair hope to achieve in the future as the approach their fortieth anniversary working together. It is the book their millions of fans have been waiting to read.
Author : Veronika Meduna
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781869405847
In Science on Ice, award-winning science broadcaster and writer Veronika Meduna follows deep-south scientists who huddle in tents and dive under ice to study ancient mud, fat fish, migrating penguins and fossilised forests. Meduna presents us with a fascinating frozen land - Antarctica's ice cap holds three quarters of the planet's fresh water, its layers of ice and sediment record past climate conditions going back millions of years, and the oceans around it drive the global food chain and a giant conveyor belt of currents that transports heat around the globe. The creatures that call Antarctica home have evolved to survive in conditions hostile to life, and the continent's permanently ice-covered lakes may even hold the secret to how life began on Earth - and what it might look like elsewhere. And though it is the only continent without permanent human habitation, Antartica may yet hold the key to our survival. In this lavishly illustrated book Meduna introduces us to an exhilarating landscape, to fascinating discoveries and to the people making them - those scientists tackling fundamental questions about life and the world around us from the frozen continent.
Author : Anna Prokos
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634401616
Have you ever wondered what the coldest place on Earth is like? Antarctica is a large ice-covered continent at the southernmost point on the planet. Readers will explore this icy land and learn about the various types of glaciers and icebergs.
Author : Gretchen Legler
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157131282X
"McMurdo Station, Antarctica, is home to eighty-mile-per-hour winds, minus seventy degree temperatures, and months of near-total darkness. Sent to Antarctica as an observer, Gretchen Legler tells the story of her season spent at McMurdo Station. Populated by people from all walks of life - bankers, MBAs, therapists, carpenters, scientists, laborers, and military brass - the individuals that Legler meets have gone to Antarctica to escape everything from parking tickets to angry spouses. Hoping to get away from the complexities of her own life, Legler arrives at McMurdo Station with the intention of researching the landscape; what she finds, instead, is a zany population of people." "Part sociological study, part historiography, and part love story, On the Ice is an exploration of one of the most unexplored places on earth and the people who are drawn to it."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John D. Castello,Scott O. Rogers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691074757
Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium organized by the editors in 2001, it comprises twenty chapters by internationally renowned scientists, including Russian experts whose decades of work has been rarely available in English."--Jacket.
Author : Claire Eamer
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781525301582
Earth’s melting ice contains unexpected discoveries! Some frozen places on Earth contain ice that’s hundreds or even thousands of years old. Now, as the planet warms, some of that ice is melting, revealing fascinating artifacts long preserved in its depths. Tools, clothing and human bodies have been discovered, shedding new light on the lives of our ancestors and the world that was. But researchers are in a race against time — because as soon as these treasures are exposed, they begin to disintegrate! A wealthy man buried 2500 years ago with his sixteen horses! Cave-lion cubs from a species extinct for 10 000 years! It’s amazing what’s been hidden in the ice!
Author : Alberto Flores d'Arcais,Marco Tedesco
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781615197002
For most of us, the Arctic is a vast, alien landscape; for research scientist Marco Tedesco, it is his laboratory, his life’s work—and the most beautiful, most endangered place on Earth. Marco Tedesco is a world-leading expert on Arctic ice decline and climate change. In The Hidden Life of Ice, he invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day in the field, he unearths the surprising secrets just beneath the icy surface—from evidence of long-extinct “polar camels” to the fantastically weird microorganisms that live in freezing cryoconite holes—as well as critical clues about the future of our planet. Not just a student of its secrets, Tedesco is an acolyte of the Arctic’s beauty—its “magnificence and fragility,” as Elizabeth Kolbert writes in her foreword. Alongside the sobering facts on climate change, Tedesco shares stunning photographs of this surreal landscape— as well as captivating legends of Greenland’s earliest local populations, epic deeds of long-ago Arctic explorers, and his own moving reflections. This is an urgent tribute to an awe-inspiring place that may be gone all too soon.
Author : Juleah del Rosario
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534442962
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Author : Jim Mastro
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805065172
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