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Published to coincide with the International Polar Year, Vanishing World is an unprecedented visual record of life in the Arctic. Five years in the making, this book is both a celebration of the wildlife that inhabits this harsh and unforgiving climate and a cautionary tale of global warming. Rising temperatures have put areas such as the Artic at risk and the livelihoods of the animals that live there are increasingly threatened.
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library’s large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the us… More >>
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Provide your students with an insight into the science of our atmosphere and the effects of humanitys actions on the Earth system. A scientific perspective on climate change will also help students separate fact from fiction in popular accounts of global warming in order to make informed decisions about products and lifestyle choices that affect the Earth system. We look at the makeup of the Earths atmosphere to better understand the causes of Global Warming as well… More >>