Oceans category: 226 books
by Jules Michelet
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2019
La Mer est un ouvrage écrit par l'historien français Jules Michelet (1798 – 1874).
Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.
Ebb and Flow
Tides and Life on Our Once and Future Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Ebb and Flow was named one of 2007's "best science books" by Peter Calamai, science editor of the Toronto Star [Dec. 30, 2007]. He calls it a "wonderful resource book…. Tom Koppel seems to have visited or read about every place with unusual tides and water currents, yet he wears this...
by Kimberly Peters
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Whale watching is one of the most popular vacation and nature activities in many parts of the world. To see these beautiful creatures in all their glory provides an experience one is not likely to forget.
Their sheer size and grace is truly a sight to be experienced by anyone at any age. It...
Singing Whales and Flying Squid
The Discovery Of Marine Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Two-thirds of this planet is covered by water inhabited by an incredible variety of living organisms, ranging in size from microbe to whale, and in abundance from scarce to uncountable. Whales and dolphins must surface to breathe, and some fishes occupy surface waters and can easily be seen from boats...
by Dario Giardi, Francesco Aloe
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Narrativa - racconto lungo (29 pagine) - Un viaggio introspettivo attraverso i luoghi leggendari della Bretagna.
Con Respirando l’oceano l’autore riprendere in mano il diario di un viaggio in Bretagna per ripercorrere fascino, ricordi e sogni che la monotonia della quotidianità ha forzatamente...
by Mahesh Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
If one eye of a ‘Lobster’ grasshopper is destroyed, then a new one emerges. The eyes of female grasshopper are found in her tail. Found in New Guiana, this grasshopper’s length is 35 cm. It remains alive only for 14 days and during this period does not eat anything. A fish named ‘Jaculus’...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
The Albatross and the Fish
Linked Lives in the Open Seas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast stretches of seemingly empty seas, the albatross remains a legend for most people. And yet, humans are threatening the albatross family to such an extent that it is currently the most threatened bird group...
Governing Transboundary Waters
Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award!
With almost the entire world’s water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one’s neighbor is of global relevance. For Indigenous communities, whose...
Red Coral
Extreme Diving and the Plunder of Red Coral in the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
For Captain Leonardo Fusco the discovery of the sea started at the age of nine. Years later while snorkeling off the coast of Palinuro, he discovered a branch of Corallium Rubrum (red coral) that for centuries has been widely traded and highly valued in the jewelry industry. As a result of this...
Razor Clams
Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes. In the course of his investigation, Berger brings...
by Tomas Tomascik, Anmarie J. Mah
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas distills for the first time the information found in thousands of scholarly works relevant to an understanding of the sustainable use of marine and coastal resources in these islands-many of them available up to now only in Dutch, German or Indonesian. It is an invaluable...
Washed Up
The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The ocean gives up many prizes, just setting them on our beaches for us to find. From rubber ducks that started out somewhere in Indonesia to land Venice Beach, to an intact refrigerator makes it way to the Jersey Shore. Chunks of beeswax found on the Oregon coast are the packing remnants of 18th...
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2000
When not writing his famous Western novels, Zane Grey was an insatiable angler. Tales of Southern Rivers recounts his tales of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Everglades, and on remote rivers in the jungles of Mexico. With many of these venues being some of today's most popular...