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Volume 29 - October 1993

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Sea mammals and oil: confronting the risks. Joseph R. Geraci and David J. St Aubin (editors). 1990. San Diego: Academic Press, xvi + 282 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-12-280600-X. $65.00 (US).

Captain Simon Metcalfe: Pioneer Fur Trader in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and China. Rhys Richards. 1991. Fairbanks and Kingston, Ontario: The Limestone Press (Alaska History Series 37). 234 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-919642-37-3.

Glacial Marine Sedimentation: Paleoclimatic Significance. John B. Anderson and Gail M. Ashley (Editors). 1991. Boulder: Geological Society of America (Special Paper 261). viii + 232 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-8137-2261-6. US$47.50.

Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses. Irving M. Mintzer (Editor). 1992. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiv + 381 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-521-42109-8. £19.95, US$34.95.

Global environmental change: understanding the human dimension. P.C. Stern, O.R. Young, and D. Druckman (editors). Washington: National Academy Press. 308 p, hard cover. ISBN 0-309-04494-4.

Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered Peoples. Finn Lynge. 1993. Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, xiv + 118 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-87451-588-2. US$16.95.

Hero in Disgrace: The Life of Arctic Explorer Frederick A. Cook. Howard. S. Abramson. 1991. New York: Paragon House, xix + 250 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-55778-322-5. US$21.95.

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Across the Top of the World. David E. Fisher. 1992. New York and Toronto: Random House.256 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-679-41116-X. US$25.00.

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The history of Siberia from Russian conquest to revolution. Alan Wood (editor). 1991. London: Routledge. xiv + 192 p, maps, hard cover. ISBN 0-415-05873-2. £35.00.

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The Island of South Georgia. Robert Headland. 1992. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xv + 293 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-521-42474-7. £19.95; US$39.95.

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Climate System Modeling. Kevin E. Trenberth (Editor). 1992. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xxix + 788p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-521-43231-6. £35.00.

Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary Geology & Climate. Alastair G. Dawson. 1992. London and New York: Routledge. 293 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-415-01567-7. US$25.00.

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Traditional Greenlandic Music. Michael Hauser. 1993. Sisimiut: Forlaget Kragen/ULO. 294 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 87-89160-01-0.

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The petrels: their ecology and breeding systems. John Warham. 1992. London: Academic Press, viii + 440 p, illustrated with maps, tables, Figures, and photographs, hard cover. ISBN 0-12-735420-4. £28.50 or $59.95 (US).

A History of Antarctic Science. G.E. Fogg 1992. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xxi + 483 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-521-36113-3. £55.00.

Readings in Saami History, Culture and Language III. Roger Kvist (Editor). 1992. Umeå: Center for Arctic Cultural Research, Umeå University (Miscellaneous Publications 14). iii + 142 p, illustrated, soft cover.

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Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences. J.G. Baretta-Bekker, E.K. Duursma, and B.R. Kuipers (Editors). 1992. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. 311 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 3-540-54501-8.

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Pollution of the Arctic Atmosphere. W.T. Sturges (editor). 1991. London and New York: Elsevier Science Publishers, xii + 334 p, diagrams, hard cover. ISBN 1-85166-619-2. £70.00.

Antarctica: Exploration, Perception and Metaphor. Paul Simpson-Housley. 1992. London and New York: Routledge. xviii + 131 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-415-08225-0. £16.99.

Wildlife management and subsistence hunting in Alaska. Henry P. Huntington. 1992. London: Belhaven Press, in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute; Seattle: University of Washington Press, xvii + 177 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85293-246-5. £32.00.

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