The Bear: Culture, Nature, Heritage (Web PDF) von Owen Nevin

Investigations into the cultural significance of that most familiar and charismatic group of animals, bears.

Foreword: The Bear: A Cultural and Natural Heritage - Barrie K. Gilbert
Introduction: What is a Bear? - Ian Convery and Owen Nevin and Peter Davis and John Kitchen and Melanie Clapham
The Spirit Bear - Philip Charles
Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: the Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness - Mike Jefferies
Bears within the Human Landscape: Cultural and Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Bear Parts in Cambodia and Laos - Elizabeth O. Davis
Bears within the Human Landscape: Cultural and Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Bear Parts in Cambodia and Laos - Jenny Anne Glikman
Bears in Gay Culture: Histories, Discourses and Anthropomorphism - Gareth Longstaff
Bears, Wildmen, Yeti and Sasquatch - Jeff Meldrum
Bears in Children's Literature - Tracy Hayes and Heather Prince and Ian Convery
Knowing Individual Bears - Owen Nevin and Ian Convery and John Kitchen
Bears Behind Bars: Captive Bears throughout History - Koen Cuyten and Ian Convery
The Bear in the Museum - Peter Davis
Museum Polar Bears and Climate Change - Henry McGhie
On the Oblique Imperative: What Revealing Conceals and Concealing may Reveal - Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir
Visitations: The Social and Cultural History of Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic - Kristinn Schram
Visitations: The Social and Cultural History of Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic - Jón Jónsson
Chemical Signalling in Brown Bears - Melanie Clapham and Owen Nevin and Ian Convery
Reducing Uncertainty in Bear Management - Sarah Elmeligi and Owen Nevin and Ian Convery
Living with Bears in Europe - Miha Krofel
Citizen Science and Bears - Sarah Elmeligi and Owen Nevin and Ian Convery
Understanding Local Folklore and Attitudes in Apennine Brown Bear Conservation - Jenny Anne Glikman and Beatrice Frank
Reducing Human Impacts on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation - Samantha A. Young
Reducing Human Impacts on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation - Russell C. Van Horn
Reducing Human Impacts on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation - Jenny Anne Glikman
Afterword: 'It's Me Bear': Reflections on a Unique Career Working with Bears - Lynn Rogers