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Mariana Gosnell

Ice

The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance

576 pages, 19 halftones, 33 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2005, 2007

Paper $18.00

ISBN: 9780226304960   Published May 2007
Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada

Introduction
 
Chapter One: Lakes
Chapter Two: Rivers
Chapter Three: Great Lakes
Chapter Four: Loading
Chapter Five: Breakup 
Chapter Six: Alps        
Chapter Seven: Surging Glaciers
Chapter Eight: West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Chapter Nine: Coring                                       
Chapter Ten: On Glaciers        
Chapter Eleven: Icebergs I       
Chapter Twelve: Icebergs II     
Chapter Thirteen: Sea Ice I      
Chapter Fourteen: Sea Ice II                
Chapter Fifteen: Ground Ice I  
Chapter Sixteen: Ground Ice II
Chapter Seventeen: Plants                    
Chapter Eighteen: Animals I                             
Chapter Nineteen: Animals II   
Chapter Twenty: Animals III    
Chapter Twenty-One: Animals IV
Chapter Twenty-Two: Human I
Chapter Twenty-Three: Human II
Chapter Twenty-Four: Games I
Chapter Twenty-Five: Games II
Chapter Twenty-Six: Uses I
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Uses II
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Uses III
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Other Forms of Ice
Chapter Thirty: Atmosphere I   
Chapter Thirty-One: Atmosphere II
Chapter Thirty-Two: Atmosphere III
Chapter Thirty-Three: Space I
Chapter Thirty-Four: Space II  
Chapter Thirty-Five: Ice Ages
Chapter Thirty-Six: Lake of the Woods
 
Acknowledgment
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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