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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents 
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Whither the Snows of Yesteryear?
• 2. Ice Afloat—Ice Shelves, Icebergs, and Sea Ice
• 3. Impermanent Permafrost
• 4. Darkening Mountains—Disappearing Glaciers
• 5. The Greenland Ice Sheet
• 6. Antarctica: The Giant Ice Locker
• 7. From Greenhouse to Icehouse
• 8. Return to the Greenhouse
• 9. The Importance of Ice
• Appendix A. Anticipating Future Climate Change
• Appendix B. Eyes in the Sky—Monitoring the Cryosphere from Above
• Appendix C. Geologic Time Scale
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index