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Eyewitness books volume 57
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Shows and describes wildlife found in the polar regions, looks at Inuit clothing and artifacts, and depicts the equipment used by polar explorers.
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An anti-globalization activist learns how to artificially trigger a polar shift. He plans to use the event to jolt industrialized nations into corrective action. Unfortunately, unless NUMA Special Assignment Team can stop him, his "wake-up call" could annihilate the entire population of the world.
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The Arctic and Antarctic remain the greatest wildernesses on Earth. The scale and beauty of the scenery and the sheer power of the elements, the weather, the rough ocean and the ice, is unmatched anywhere else on our planet. tells the compelling story of animals such as the wandering albatross, the adelie penguin and the polar bear, and paints a portrait that will take your breath away, at a moment when, melting fast, the frozen regions of our planet...
12) Frozen worlds
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Explore arctic environments, polar landscapes, animals, and people in and around the North and South Poles.
13) Ice hunt
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Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close -- and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted facility, something whose survival...
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AVp2s fiction readalong volume 53
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Learn why the Earth is heating up and threatening the polar bears.
17) Thank you, Santa
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A little girl (in Australia) becomes Santa's pen pal throughout the course of one year and learns some interesting facts about polar animals.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called 'Third Pole, ' the pole of altitude, located in unexplored heights of the Himalaya. Before the calendar turned,...