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  • The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

    Edited by Adrian Howkins, Peder Roberts ...
    The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of ... Read more

    $149.99 CAD

  • Antarctica and the Humanities

    Edited by Lize-Marié van der Watt, Adrian Howkins, Roberts Peder ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Polar Imperative

    A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

    by Shelagh D. Grant ...
    Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent’s polar regions. This engaging, timely history examines:the unfolding implications of major climate changesthe impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoplesthe ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Thin Ice

    by Richard Ellis ...
    From "a graceful writer who’s written some of the best natural history books of the past decade” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an urgent, stirring celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of one of earth's greatest natural treasures.Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Future History of the Arctic

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition, the remaking of global trade ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Antarctic

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas of continental space not claimed by any nation-state. Scientifically, the continental ice sheet has provided us with vital evidence about the Earth ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • After the Ice

    Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic

    by Alun Anderson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ice and Water

    Politics Peoples And The Artic Council

    by John English ...
    As the Far North assumes an increasingly important role in international politics, so too does Canada’s role in its governance. In 1991, eight countries signed the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy: Canada, the United States, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland. This was the first step in the formation of the Arctic Council, which was formally established in 1996 to act as ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Book of Unconformities

    Speculations on Lost Time

    by Hugh Raffles ...
    From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present.Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Unfreezing the Arctic

    Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

    by Andrew Stuhl ...
    This account of a region transformed—and threatened—offers "a timely historical reflection on the important social role of science and scientists."— Historical GeographyIn recent years, environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, many commentators mislabel them as ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oceanic Histories

    Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Series series Cambridge Oceanic Histories
    Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A History of the Arctic

    Nature, Exploration and Exploitation

    by John McCannon ...
    Cold and isolated, yet home to some 4 million people; harsh and unyielding, yet disintegrating with every passing year: the Arctic defies definition. In the modern mind it represents the quintessentially timeless – its landscape imagined both as a realm of crystalline purity and as a frozen kingdom of dread and death. A unique ecosystem that hosts such beloved creatures as the polar bear and the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD