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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Culture
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Pages : 116
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Tuktuk
Author: Robin Currie
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1628558792
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
As the sun begins to set, arctic animals scurry to prepare for six months of darkness and cold. Tuktuk the collared lemming is almost ready for the long winter night – all he needs is warm fur to line his nest. When one furry kamik (boot) slips off an Inuit driver’s sled, Tuktuk is in luck! But as he drags it home, Putak the polar bear, Aput the arctic fox, and Masak the caribou eye this little lemming’s prize and want it for their own. Can Tuktuk outwit the other animals and convince them that one furry kamik is no good for anyone bigger than a lemming?
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1628558792
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
As the sun begins to set, arctic animals scurry to prepare for six months of darkness and cold. Tuktuk the collared lemming is almost ready for the long winter night – all he needs is warm fur to line his nest. When one furry kamik (boot) slips off an Inuit driver’s sled, Tuktuk is in luck! But as he drags it home, Putak the polar bear, Aput the arctic fox, and Masak the caribou eye this little lemming’s prize and want it for their own. Can Tuktuk outwit the other animals and convince them that one furry kamik is no good for anyone bigger than a lemming?
Chasing Molecules
Author: Elizabeth Grossman
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597263702
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national atten
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597263702
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national atten
Polar Colonization
Author: Henry W. Howgate
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Raising Kane
Author: Mark Metzler Sawin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Here is the cultural biography of Elisha Kane, a sickly physician, who transformed himself into an internationally celebrated Arctic explorer and author before his untimely death in 1857. This book is an important reinterpretation of the life of a prototypically American figure. Following Kane’s exploits from the Mexican War through his arctic adventures and ill-fated romance with the Spiritualist medium Margaret Fox, author Sawin ties this Kane into the main currents of mid-19th cent. popular culture, opening a new vista on the meanings of masculinity, celebrity, and heroism. This is an exhaustive research work into the life and accomplishments of a remarkable adventurer, and a sociological analysis of popular perceptions of Kane’s work and feats. Illus.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Here is the cultural biography of Elisha Kane, a sickly physician, who transformed himself into an internationally celebrated Arctic explorer and author before his untimely death in 1857. This book is an important reinterpretation of the life of a prototypically American figure. Following Kane’s exploits from the Mexican War through his arctic adventures and ill-fated romance with the Spiritualist medium Margaret Fox, author Sawin ties this Kane into the main currents of mid-19th cent. popular culture, opening a new vista on the meanings of masculinity, celebrity, and heroism. This is an exhaustive research work into the life and accomplishments of a remarkable adventurer, and a sociological analysis of popular perceptions of Kane’s work and feats. Illus.
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada
Author: Noel Dyck
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773563717
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The essays in Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada provide a comprehensive evaluation of past, present, and future forms of anthropological involvement in public policy issues that affect Native peoples in Canada. The contributing authors, who include social scientists and politicians from both Native and non-Native backgrounds, use their experience to assess the theory and practice of anthropological participation in and observation of relations between aboriginal peoples and governments in Canada. They trace the strengths and weaknesses of traditional forms of anthropological fieldwork and writing, as well as offering innovative solutions to some of the challenges confronting anthropologists working in this domain. In addition to Noel Dyck and James Waldram, the contributing authors are Peggy Martin Brizinski, Julie Cruikshank, Peter Douglas Elias, Julia D. Harrison, Ron Ignace, Joseph M. Kaufert, Patricia Leyland Kaufert, William W. Koolage, John O'Neil, Joe Sawchuk, Colin H. Scott, Derek G. Smith, George Speck, Renee Taylor, Peter J. Usher, and Sally M. Weaver.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773563717
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The essays in Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada provide a comprehensive evaluation of past, present, and future forms of anthropological involvement in public policy issues that affect Native peoples in Canada. The contributing authors, who include social scientists and politicians from both Native and non-Native backgrounds, use their experience to assess the theory and practice of anthropological participation in and observation of relations between aboriginal peoples and governments in Canada. They trace the strengths and weaknesses of traditional forms of anthropological fieldwork and writing, as well as offering innovative solutions to some of the challenges confronting anthropologists working in this domain. In addition to Noel Dyck and James Waldram, the contributing authors are Peggy Martin Brizinski, Julie Cruikshank, Peter Douglas Elias, Julia D. Harrison, Ron Ignace, Joseph M. Kaufert, Patricia Leyland Kaufert, William W. Koolage, John O'Neil, Joe Sawchuk, Colin H. Scott, Derek G. Smith, George Speck, Renee Taylor, Peter J. Usher, and Sally M. Weaver.
Three Screenplays
Author: E. L. Doctorow
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872013
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Published here for the first time, the scripts to "The Book of Daniel, Ragtime" and "Loon Lake" reveal a new aspect of Doctorow's remarkable talents and offer film students insight into the complex relationship between literature and motion pictures.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872013
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Published here for the first time, the scripts to "The Book of Daniel, Ragtime" and "Loon Lake" reveal a new aspect of Doctorow's remarkable talents and offer film students insight into the complex relationship between literature and motion pictures.
Humble Giants (Alien)
Author: Dave Rhodes
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450003052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
With great anticipation, the Starship Orion headed into the dark void that was before them. Surprisingly, the Ultra Intelligent Beings (UIB) declared that they were in a very different place as they looked at the stars around them. The starship was excited as they may come into contact with life – a new civilization. Everybody in the starship wondered what that would be like. Are they like us? What will transpire in this meeting? Author Dave Rhodes’ third book of a trilogy, Humble Giants –Alien, invites us to go aboard the Starship Orion to find out the answers to these intriguing questions.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450003052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
With great anticipation, the Starship Orion headed into the dark void that was before them. Surprisingly, the Ultra Intelligent Beings (UIB) declared that they were in a very different place as they looked at the stars around them. The starship was excited as they may come into contact with life – a new civilization. Everybody in the starship wondered what that would be like. Are they like us? What will transpire in this meeting? Author Dave Rhodes’ third book of a trilogy, Humble Giants –Alien, invites us to go aboard the Starship Orion to find out the answers to these intriguing questions.
International Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service in the North Atlantic Ocean
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Category : Sea ice
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Sea ice
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Bulletin
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Category : Marine service
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Marine service
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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