CTC Browsing Collection-Revisited!

Are you looking on ways to beat the winter doldrums? Winter is a great time to expand our horizons with a new book! This month the CTC iCommons is featuring books about winter. Here are a few of the titles:

Polar Bears: The Natural History of a Threatened Species

Author:  Ian Stirling

With 40 years of research author Dr. Ian Stirling explains the evolution, life history and behavior of polar bears. This beautiful book provides a diverse collection of polar bear photographs along with tables, maps and graphs. The book also touches on the current threat to their very existence due to global warming.

Winter Twigs

Author: Helen M. Gilkey and Patricia L. Packard

Winter Twigs is a fantastic resource for wintertime identification of deciduous trees and shrubs of Northwest Oregon and western Washington. Covered are 82 species readily identified by winter characteristics. It also includes a glossary of botanical terms and line drawings.

1912: The year the World Discovered Antarctica

Author: Chris Turney

This book revisits the exploits of five separate teams representing the old and new world in search of the South Pole. The author shows how these discoveries begin a new look at our understanding of the natural world while inspiring the public’s passion for exploration.

These books are available in the CTC iCommons! Stop by to see what other titles in our browsing collection are available to check out.

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