Author: John May
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Includes material on the Antarctic Treaty.

Author: John May
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959770223
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Catherine Barr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406395952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415970245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1274

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Author: John May
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Examines accidents and risk, the nature of chance and the oppressive weight of secrecy, official lies, and the true cost of atomic energy.

Author: Peter J. Beck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317700961
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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First published in 1986, this book considers the nature of international interest in Antarctica and the positions of those involved. It looks at the significance of the historical dimension, the development of the treaty system, the management of marine and mineral resources, the role of the United Nations and the impact of such non-governmental organisations as Greenpeace International. The Antarctic implications of the Falklands War of 1982 are also discussed, as well as the underlying relationship between America and the Soviet Union during the 1980s. With a truly international scope, this reissue will be of particular relevance to students with an interest in the political, legal, economic and environmental concerns surrounding the Antarctic region, both in the present and historically.

Author: Jessica O'Reilly
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150170835X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that inform each other, and the Antarctic environment—with its striking beauty, dramatic human and animal lives, and specter of global climate change—not only informs science and policy but also lends Antarctic environmentalism a particularly technocratic patina. Jessica O’Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the "Antarctic Gateway" city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program. O’Reilly also follows the journeys Antarctic scientists and policymakers take to temporarily "Antarctic" places such as science conferences, policy workshops, and the international Antarctic Treaty meetings in Scotland, Australia, and India. Competing claims of nationalism, scientific disciplines, field experiences, and personal relationships among Antarctic environmental managers disrupt the idea of a utopian epistemic community. O’Reilly focuses on what emerges in Antarctica among the complicated and hybrid forms of science, sociality, politics, and national membership found there. The Technocratic Antarctic unfolds the historical, political, and moral contexts that shape experiences of and decisions about the Antarctic environment.

Author: John May
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806974859
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A celebration tinged with tragedy. This reference, illustrated with color photographs, maps, and charts, combines information on the evolution, habits, intelligence, and anatomy of the dolphin with a survey of the growing threats to its survival. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Keith Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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This book explains the allure of the great wilderness of Antarctica, mostly unspoiled by people, its wildlife still incredibly trusting of us, and demonstrates why we must preserve it at all cost.

Author: Leslie Carol Roberts
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803267649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky conjures all these ideas and interweaves them with the experience and history of Antarctica, balancing the reality of the frigid outpost populated by a ragtag alliance of international researchers against the crystalline dreamscape of a continent at the bottom of the world. When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world. In the twenty years since then she has shifted to the no less difficult task of saving Antarctica itself, compiling memoirs and stories, learning the biology and geography of the icy land, and documenting her own journey. This book pieces together the tragic and heroic tales of nineteenth-century exploration, interviews with scientists, and the author’s personal observations. The result is a remarkable collage that evokes the beauty and the complexity, the perils and the rewards of a lifelong engagement with the earth’s last wilderness. A kaleidoscope of legends, stories, field notes, images, reports, history, letters, and research, the book renders an impression, at once vast and microscopic, of the effect of human beings on the land and ice we call Antarctica, and its effect on us.