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100 1 $aStreever, Bill.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001000530
245 10 $aCold :$badventures in the world's frozen places /$cBill Streever.
260 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Co.,$c2009.
300 $axii, 292 pages :$bmaps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-283) and index.
505 00 $gJuly.$tExplorers, victims of cold, and immersion in thirty-five-degree water north of the Arctic Circle -- $gAugust.$tA tunnel in ground frozen for forty thousand years, landscapes changing as temperatures rise, and animals harmed by warmth -- $gSeptember.$tThe Little Ice Age, the Pleistocene Ice Age, and the ancient ice age of Snowball Earth, when the entire planet was veiled in ice -- $gOctober.$tAnimals coping with cold, migrating by the millions, and hibernating with body temperatures below freezing -- $gNovember.$tSkis and skiing, a trail closed by a late-season bear, and freezing trees releasing a burst of heat and flushing the fluid from their cells -- $gDecember.$tOverheating in the depths of winter, shadows of Weddell seals in the sea ice, and Japanese ama divers in water cold enough to kill most humans -- $gJanuary.$tWeather patterns that cause frigid conditions, medieval weather forecasters burning at the stake, and a frozen ocean -- $gFebruary.$tPlummeting temperatures, the cooling of Westminster Abbey, and approaching absolute zero and the death of matter -- $gMarch.$tA search for polar bear dens near forty below zero, winter apparel, igloos, quinzhees, and a house instrumented to measure cold -- $gApril.$tFrost-heaved roads, broken pipes, crops destroyed by frost, and 143 caribou killed by an avalanche -- $gMay.$tThe end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, rising sea levels, howling winds, receding glaciers, and mammoth carcasses in thawing ground -- $gJune.$tFourier's greenhouse effect, Revelle's geophysical experiment, debating science, and the melting Beaufort Sea.
520 $aA narrative account of the author's forays into some of the world's coldest regions describes his encounter with an Arctic swimming hole, investigations into ancient and more recent ice ages, and examinations of animal hibernation habits.
651 0 $aArctic regions$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100947
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008045350-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008045350-d.html
852 00 $bmil$hG608$i.S69 2009