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Freezing point; cold as a matter of life and death.

Title: Freezing point; cold as a matter of life and death.
Author: Kavaler, Lucy.
Publication: New York, John Day Co. [1970]

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416 pages illustrations; 23 cm

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Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 379-394.

Contents

It Is a Noble Subject -- 1. Introduction: The Strange Ways of Cold -- Part One: Cold As an Environment -- 2. Man-A Tropical Creature in a Cold World -- 3. Conquering Cold with Cunning -- 4. Animal Adaptations -- 5. Migration, Hibernation, or Mass Death -- 6. Growth in Cold Soil -- Part Two: Cold and a New Era in Medicine -- 7. Take a Cold Heart -- 8. Chilled Bodies -- Part Three: Cold, a Mystery Unraveled -- 9. The Hidden History of a Cold Continent -- 10. Microbes in a World of Ice -- Part Four: Cold As a Means of Survival -- 11. Sex without Contact -- 12. Banking Life -- 13. Cells and,Squirrels -- 14. "Nothing That Has an End Is Long" -- Part Five: Cold, the Healer -- 15. The Freeze That Brings Health -- 16. Freedom from Pain -- Part Six: Cold, Food's Keeper -- 17. "To Cap the Jubilation, Dishes of Ice Cream" -- 18. Of Nero, TV Dinners, and the Iceman -- 19. Space Food -- Part Seven: Cold and Its Unlimited Horizons -- 20. Can Life Begin on a Cold Planet? -- 21. Human Hibernators.

LCCN

78107206

OCLC

ocm00091097
91097
SCSB-2115871

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library