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Author	Ellis, Richard, 1938-
Title	On thin ice : the changing world of the polar bear / Richard Ellis.
Publication Info.	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	599 E	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	400 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-381) and index.
Contents	Europeans "discover" the polar bear (and the bear discovers them) -- The great ice bear -- Polar bear nations -- The Eskimo and the polar bear -- Hunting the hunter -- In the zoo and the circus -- On the whiteness of the bear -- Global warming and the bear -- Is the polar bear doomed?.
Subject	Polar bear.
	Polar bear -- Effect of human beings on.
	Global warming.
	Global environmental change.
Added Title	Changing world of the polar bear
ISBN	9780307270597
	0307270599

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