The polar world
| Author | : Georg Ludwig Hartwig |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 614 |
| Release | : 1869 |
| Genre | : Antarctica |
| ISBN | : |
The Polar World
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The World of the Polar Bear
| Author | : Norbert Rosing |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781554076314 |
Praise for the second edition: "Norbert's gift as a photographer is his great curiosity about the natural world. His magic is displayed in photographs that weave light, color and action into a tapestry that tells volumes about life in the Far North."-- National Geographic Magazine "Highly recommended."-- Library Journal (starred review) The polar bear is the largest terrestrial carnivore in the world, uniquely adapted to thrive in the harsh environment of the Far North. In The World of the Polar Bear, renowned nature photographer Norbert Rosing follows the polar bear through each season of the year. This timely third edition has been fully updated and features more than 20 terrific new photographs. With its thorough and engaging text and spectacular photography, The World of the Polar Bear includes: A season-by-season account of the life of the polar bear, including feeding, mating and rearing of cubs A new chapter featuring the polar bears of Svalbard, Norway An intimate look at the animals that share the polar bear's environment, including seals, arctic foxes, walruses and muskoxen A section on such northern sky phenomena as sun dogs and northern lights Many anecdotes and insights about the polar bear -- at once a loving parent, a fierce predator and a natural jester Polar bears are seriously threatened by global warming, and this book continues to explore this critical issue. The World of the Polar Bear is quite simply the best book ever published on the polar bear.
A Polar Bear's World
| Author | : Caroline Arnold |
| Publisher | : Capstone |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 2015-02-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1479582085 |
The arctic wind howls, but the two polar bear cubs are warm inside their den. They snuggle tight against their mother and drink her milk. Three months later, they tumble outside for their first walk in the snow. Bundle up and find out what happens in a polar bear's world.
Polar Worlds
| Author | : Five Mile Press Pty Limited, The |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781742114262 |
Using state-of-the-art digital imagery, the breathtaking spreads in these books feature an arresting design that is complemented by fascinating, up-to-date information in a user-friendly format. Expertly written and packed with layered, dynamic illustrations, it will have readers poring over pages of stunning images that present each topic in surprising new angles and dimensions. With state-of -the art-illustrations and innovative design, the stimulating spreads will engage young readers.
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics
| Author | : Øystein Tunsjø |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2018-02-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0231546904 |
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back to bipolarity—a system in which no third power can challenge the top two. The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics surveys the new era of superpowers to argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century. Tunsjø expands Kenneth N. Waltz’s structural-realist theory to examine the new bipolarity within the context of geopolitics, which he calls “geostructural realism.” He considers how a new bipolar system will affect balancing and stability in U.S.-China relations, predicting that the new bipolarity will not be as prone to arms races as the previous era’s; that the risk of limited war between the two superpowers is likely to be higher in the coming bipolarity, especially since the two powers are primarily rivals at sea rather than on land; and that the superpowers are likely to be preoccupied with rivalry and conflict in East Asia instead of globally. Tunsjø presents a major challenge to how international relations understands superpowers in the twenty-first century.
The European Union in a Multipolar World
| Author | : M. Dee |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2015-05-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137434201 |
Presenting a critical overview of what 'emerging multipolarity' means for the world's foremost global trading bloc and economic power, the European Union, this book offers new insights into how the rise of the emerging economies has impacted the EU and its role within the World Trade Organization.
The News at the Ends of the Earth
| Author | : Hester Blum |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2019-04-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1478004487 |
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.
China as a Polar Great Power
| Author | : Anne-Marie Brady |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2017-08-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107179270 |
This book explores China's growing strength at the poles and how it could shift the global balance of power. The strategic plans of China are of interest to a broad audience of scholars, policymakers, and international entities, and this well-researched work will be an important resource.
The Polar World
| Author | : Georg Hartwig |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 593 |
| Release | : 2014-05-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108073360 |
This 1869 book describes the geography and climate, as well as the survival strategies for life, in extreme polar environments.
At the Centre of the World
| Author | : John Michell |
| Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : British Isles |
| ISBN | : 9780500016077 |
The powers of ancient rulers emanated from the ritual center of the tribal territory. This center was also regarded as the birthplace of the tribe and belonged to the people as a whole. Installed upon this sacred rock (the omphalos or "navel of the world"), at the polar axis around which all revolved, the king could survey his realm, ordered from the center according to the divisions of the cosmos itself, reflecting the harmony and balance of paradise. Akhenaten's city in Egypt, Megalopolis of Ancient Greece, the world-centers of Roman Gaul and Celtic Cornwall, all provide clues to lead John Michell to the geographical and sacred criteria for locating a center. From studies of symbolic geography, particularly that of Celtic and Norse territories, he has discovered the leading principle for the siting of the "Thing" places, the main centers of religious and state ritual in Shetland, Orkney, the Faroe Islands and the Isle of Man. He considers the possible locations of the most hallowed centers of ancient Druidry and of the High Kings of Ireland. Finally, the esoteric foundation plan for these ancient societies is disclosed: the sacred geometry, the symbolic numbers. Symbols of the center are among the most persistent elements of myth and belief between cultures widely separated in time and space. Now John Michell traces their genesis, and suggests that their reflection of the ideal Platonic order of the universe can be relevant to the modern world.
