Product Description: To live in the Arctic, people have had to adapt to a freezing climate of ice and snow. Learn how Arctic communities have survived for thousands of years in this harsh environment. Discover how villagers find food in a land with few animals and plants...read more

Product Description: Bitter cold and constant snow. Polar bears, seals, and killer whales. Victor Frankenstein chasing his monstrous creation across icy terrain in a dogsled. The arctic calls to mind a myriad different images. Consisting of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, the United States, Russia, Greenland, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the arctic possesses a unique ecosystem—temperatures average negative 29 degrees Fahrenheit in winter and rarely rise above freezing in summer—and the indigenous peoples and cultures that live in the region have had to adapt to the harsh weather conditions...read more

Product Description: This informative series takes a look at the Earth's changing climate in various locations across the globe

Focuses on the human inhabitants of the Arctic and their struggle for existence in one of the most inhospitable areas of the world. This book confirms the richness and diversity of the Arctic's history, culture, wildlife and landscape and looks at its future.

Details the fascinating history and culture of North American Indian culture areas, providing numerous box features and sidebars that highlight important people, events, and topics, as well as including a timeline, a list of museums and sites related to the tribes, and a further reading list.

Product Description: The native people of northern Japan call themselves “Ainu” meaning “humans” in their language. Today, the island of Hokkaido remains the only homeland of the Ainu people, most of whom live in small villages scattered in different areas of this island...read more

Describes the Native nations that have lived for thousands of years in the northernmost part of present-day North America, where the frigid climate impacts every aspect of daily life for such groups as the Inuit, Yupik, and Inupiat.

Describes the Native nations that have lived for thousands of years in the northernmost part of present-day North America, where the frigid climate impacts every aspect of daily life for such groups as the Inuit, Yupik, and Inupiat.

Describes arctic peoples and the ways they have adapted to their inhospitable climate, and includes projects such as making a kayak and Aleutian baskets.

Discusses people who live in the Arctic regions of the world and how it affects their lives.

Describes arctic peoples and the ways they have adapted to their inhospitable climate, and includes projects such as making a kayak and Aleutian baskets.

Describes the land, history, domestic life, and customs of the Arctic peoples and provides instruction for crafts such as snow goggles and Inuit carvings. (view table of contents)

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Describes life in the Arctic regions of the world and how humans have adapted to the harsh conditions there

Offers a look at the traditional life and landscape of different Arctic cultures from Greenland, Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, and the United States (view table of contents)

Product Description: Throughout the northern circumpolar tundras and forests, and over many millennia, human populations have based their livelihood wholly or in part upon the exploitation of a single animal species-the reindeer. Yet some are hunters, others pastoralists, while today traditional pastoral economies are being replaced by a commercially oriented ranch industry...read more