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  • Antarctica and the Humanities

    Modifié par Lize-Marié van der Watt, Adrian Howkins, Roberts Peder ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $70.49 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $149.59 CAD

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  • Polar Imperative

    A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • On Thin Ice

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • The Future History of the Arctic

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Antarctic

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Klaus Dodds ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • After the Ice

    Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ice and Water

    Politics Peoples And The Artic Council

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Book of Unconformities

    Speculations on Lost Time

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Unfreezing the Arctic

    Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Oceanic Histories

    Modifié par David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • A History of the Arctic

    Nature, Exploration and Exploitation

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD