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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 changes • the impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoples • the current high-stakes game for control...
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In Deep Freeze, Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice.
In the tense 1950s, even as the world was locked in the Cold War, U.S. scientists, maintained by the Navy's Operation Deep Freeze, came together in Antarctica with counterparts...
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Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual "race for resources"? Or will the Arctic become a region governed by mutual benefit, international law, and the...
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The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century's frontier.
In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf, Arctic policy expert Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon examines the political, legal, and scientific aspects of Canada's efforts to delineate its Arctic extended continental shelf. The quality and quantity of the data collected and analyzed by the scientists and legal...
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This book in itself is testimony to transition in the affairs of the north circumpolar region. Written in 1988 and updated in 1990, the papers assembled here have been overtaken by events. Non-military or civil requirements thus seemed to warrant a new and far more important place in our understanding of security. It's appropriate to explore not only the potential of civil cooperation in countering the force of militarism, but the utility of a comprehensive...
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This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada's polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada's territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada's history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this land, and the area will only become more strategically and economically important in the future. This bundle provides an in-depth crash course, including titles...
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When author Michaela Stith left her home in Alaska to visit the Lower 48, she learned that many people think of the Arctic as an icy wasteland devoid of people and filled with polar bears. Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities challenges that misconception-by inviting you to witness a side of the Arctic few southerners ever get to see.
Through intimate interviews, laugh-out-loud stories, and Stith's own keen observations, this travel memoir...
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“The Dawn in Russia” is a travelogue by British journalist Henry Woodd Nevinson, published in 1905. In the book, Nevinson recounts his experiences traveling through Russia during the early 20th century, particularly focusing on the social and political changes occurring in the country. He describes the poverty and harsh conditions endured by peasants and workers, as well as the tensions between different ethnic and religious groups. Nevinson also...
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A swashbuckling narrative of treachery and obsession involving pirates, fur seals, competing governments, and near war.
"Roar of the Sea vividly recreates one of the earliest battles between commerce and conservation: the struggle over the fate of the Pribilof Islands fur seals, once considered 'America's most valuable wildlife.' In this engrossing and timely book, Deb Vanasse shows how ego, ambition, and misinformation can collide with good science...
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