Glaciers

  • Glaciers
    By Peter Knight

    ... to find out more about the beds of contemporary glaciers including the Antarctic ice streams (Blanken- ship et al., 1986), accommodation of deforming bed theory into the glaciological mainstream was relatively, if belatedly, rapid.

  • Glaciers
    By M. J. Hambrey, Jürg Alean

    Glaciers are among the most beautiful natural wonders on Earth, as well as the least known and understood, for most of us. Michael Hambrey describes how glaciers grow and decay, move and influence human civilization.

  • Glaciers
    By Jürg Alean, Michael J. Hambrey

    Looks at the history, structure, and movement of glaciers, and discusses avalanches, glacial erosion, and the wildlife that lives around glaciers The book is a fine introduction to the world of glaciers.

  • Glaciers
    By Alexis Smith

    Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel’s sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf.

  • Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
    By Jorge Daniel Taillant

    The book is a quest to educate general society about the basic science behind glaciers, outlines current and future risks to their preservation, and reveals the intriguing politics behind glacier melting debates over policies and laws to ...

  • Glaciers
    By Barbara A. Somervill

    This book uses math and science to help students learn about glaciers. Math challenge questions provide students with the opportunity to apply math skills as they learn about the characteristics of glaciers.

  • Glaciers
    By Sally M. Walker

    This Early Bird Earth Science title explains what glaciers are and how they form. The book discusses different kinds of glaciers, how glaciers move, and the way glaciers shape Earth's surface.

  • Glaciers
    By Sandy Sepehri

    Explores Different Types Of Glaciers, Where They Are Located, How They Move, Shows Wildlife Found On Glaciers And Explains The Effect Of Global Warming.

  • Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
    By Jorge Daniel Taillant

    "Glaciers is a volume about the role glaciers play in our daily lives (often without us knowing), the risks posed to glaciers from natural and anthropogenic activity (including climate change and industrial pollution), and policies and ...

  • Glaciers
    By Alexis M. Smith

    Line by line, in and out of time, this is a haunted, joyful, beautiful book—a true gift.” —Karen Russell “Her story could be told in other people’s things. The postcards and the photographs.

  • Glaciers
    By Alexis M. Smith

    The beautifully told story of a day in the life of Isabel, a twenty-something from Portland, Oregon, that has all the hallmarks of a cult favourite Isabel lives in Portland, Oregon and works in a library, repairing damaged books.

  • Glaciers
    By Peter Knight

    This book offers a comprehensive and detailed summary of our knowledge and understanding of glaciers and sets them within a global environment context.

  • Glaciers: Nature's Icy Caps
    By David Lee Harrison

    An exciting look at one of the earth's most extraordinary forces of nature reveals how glaciers--enormous and destructive sheets of ice--have impacted our planet.