"In The Last Polar Bear, photographer Steven Kazlowski has struck just the right chord. By combining lively photographs of polar bears and other Arctic wildlife with essays from articulate experts, Kazlowski has produced a book that presents both a call to the heart and a call to arms… The essays accompanying the stunning photographs are, in addition to being rich in information, accessible." "By revealing the immediate impact of climate change-what's happening now, instead of what may theoretically happen-on polar bears, the Inupiaq, and other Arctic inhabitants, Steven Kazlowski and the writers included in The Last Polar Bear have produced an enduring lesson plan on how to recognize and help cure the earth's fever. The clearest message a reader will gain from this book? Despair is not an option. Only through hope will we change the world." "A coffee-table quality hardcover." "The accompanying essays [in The Last Polar Bear] are short of preaching and conjecture, long on fact and science [and]…this book is filled with facts that will intrigue the thinking reader…[in short,] Kazlowski's book is worth reading. The essays are thoughtful and well written, with facts laid out and arguments presented logically and objectively. The message is clear, but the messengers understand that beating us to death with rhetoric and hyperbole might not be the best way to go about things." "Kazlowski's photos are superb-elegant, breathtaking, magnificent-all the hyperbole not used in the text can be attached to the pictures. They are stunning visual compositions that show the Arctic in all its savage, raw, beautiful wonder. The bears pictured here are not stuffed toys or marketing creations. They are Nature's creatures, playful and loving at times, savage and wild at others. If ever a cause had a face, it would be this." "Kazlowski's photos, obtained over eight years at great risk and personal discomfort, compose a fascinating account of this little-understood species." "The color photographs are stunning-and the message is urgent." "[Stephen Kazlowski, a] Seattle-based photographer collects his finest work [in this] dramatic volume." "[The Last Polar Bear] is the culmination of Kazlowski's driving obsession with the polar bears of northern Alaska. Sometimes obsessions end badly; this one has resulted in a stunning book." "Nine strenuous and sometimes perilous years of photographing polar bears in the Arctic have produced a stunning new coffee-table book." "In this oversize book, wildlife photographer Kazlowski provides an attractive portfolio of photographs of polar bears and other Arctic wildlife, unprecedented in their variety and propinquity - the result of much labor, patience, and endurance." "Remarkably, Kazlowski manages not only to present a pretty picture of a photogenic animal in a starkly beautiful landscape, but also convey a great deal of information about the polar bears as a species… This beautiful, well-written photo essay book is well worth the time to peruse its pages, both for its insights into one of the world's most magnificent animals, and for the knowledge of the challenge it faces." "An intriguing and heartwrenching presentation on the direct effects of human action on animal climates." "This is not just a cuddly cub coffee-table book. Rather, this is a cry from a heart wrenched by the dramatic changes the photographer has observed." "[Kazlowski's] photographs allow us to see into this remote and beautiful world and to experience the changes threatening the wildlife and humans who call this area home. The Sierra Club is pleased to honor Steven with the Ansel Adams Award, and we hope that like the pictures of the award's namesake, Steven's pictures inspire people to take action to address the greatest threat facing our world." "The Last Polar Bear is an eye-opening look at the changing landscape in the Arctic regions, along the Beaufort and Chuchki seas, and what it means for its animal inhabitants, as well as the world's changing climate." "The Last Polar Bear, published by Braided River, is an eye-opening look at the changing landscape in the arctic regions and what climate change means for its animal inhabitants."