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1) Polar bears
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Feel the power and the beauty of this mighty animal as award-winning narrator Dion Graham narrates this instructive and absorbing examination of this amazing animal.
2) Polar bears
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40 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
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English
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Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of the polar bear.
4) Polar bears
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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Simple text and photographs introduce polars bears and their icy habitat.
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203 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm
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English
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Written by an acclaimed nature photographer and featuring 175 remarkable color photographs this is a season-by-season account of the life of polar bears, including hunting, mating, rearing cubs, and journeying to and from the ice. A powerful predator, revealed here by an acclaimed nature photographer. The polar bear is the largest terrestrial carnivore, uniquely adapted to thrive in the harsh environment of the Far North. In The World of the Polar...
8) Polar bears
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55 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
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English
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Photographs and captions present the life of polar bears across the four seasons of the year. Topics covered include habitat activities, diet, anatomy, and survival.
11) To the Arctic
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1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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To The Arctic takes you on a never before seen journey through the power of the IMAX lens into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
12) Polar bears
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Learn about polar bears including details regarding their behavior, families, and environment.
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xiii, 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm
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English
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"Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Join veteran guides and conservation officers as they keep tourists and wildlife photographers safe while the guides are providing up-close access to the 1,000 polar bears that migrate every fall through Churchill, Manitoba, a Northern frontier town on Canada's Hudson Bay.
Profiles the polar bear migration that takes place each year in Churchill, Manitoba.
15) Polar bear night
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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After wandering out at night to watch a magical star shower, a polar bear cub returns home to snuggle with her mother in their warm den.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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USGS scientist Todd Atwood and his team explore why polar bears have been turning up in record numbers in northern Alaska in addition to the 40% decline in the polar bear population in the South Beaufort Sea since 2006, discovering connections with climate change and exploration for untapped fossil fuels.
Examines the yearly gathering of polar bears in Kaktovik, Alaska, and the effect of their presence on the local people.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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A backyard snow bear becomes an integral part of a little girl's slumber. She explores the arctic landscape in the bear's company and awakens to question the authenticity of the experience. Was her excursion fantasy or reality?
19) The polar bear
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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Learn about polar bear bodies, habits, and habitats.
Polar bears are enormous, wild, beautiful creatures. Inhabitants of the Arctic, they live in an alien world of freezing temperatures, snow, and ice. Yet they have the same body temperature as our own. They are able to keep warm because of their enormous size and their abundant fat and fur, which insulate and protect them. A gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book about polar bears, this is both...
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