Oceans category: 226 books

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Oceanography and Coastal Informatics

Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018

To date, a vast amount of the world’s oceans remains uncharted. With water covering more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, maritime and oceanographic exploration and research is vital. Oceanography and Coastal Informatics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is a critical source of academic...
Cover of Let Food be the Medicine for Healthcare and Climate
by Peter A.J. Holst MD PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018

Increased consumption of energy, animal fat and red meat has occurred in different regions of the world after the transition to a more industrialized diet and fast food in these countries. USA Western Europe The Netherlands Middle East East Asia Polynesia Fast...
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Ocean Outbreak

Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease

by Drew Harvell
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

There is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. Marine epidemics have the potential to cause a mass die-off of wildlife from the bottom to the top of the food chain, impacting the health of ocean ecosystems as well as lives on land. Fueled by sewage...
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by Owen Chase
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Of the 21 men who entered the 3 flimsy whale-boats, only...
Cover of A Voyage For Madmen
by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn...
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Jacques Cousteau

The Sea King

by Brad Matsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009

An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality.   Inventor of the aqualung and fearless scuba diver, Jacques Cousteau opened up the ocean to a mass audience for...
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Sightlines

A Conversation with the Natural World

by Kathleen Jamie
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish “byways and hills” to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays....
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by Arthur Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012

Orca the killer whale is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. He hunts in packs, like a wol. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengenance across seas, across time, across all obstacles. Orca is in print and film.
Cover of Kupe et les Coraux / Kupe ke te Toka
by Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamiño
Language: French
Release Date: August 13, 2014

Kupe and the Corals is the story of Kupe, a young boy who undertakes an amazing voyage of discovery to learn about corals and the importance of coral reefs to all of the many animals that depend upon them. One night while he is fishing with his father, Kupe observes an astonishing event, thousands...
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by Eleanor Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Winner of the National Book Award “[Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and literature both.”  — Los Angeles Times Book Review On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel,...
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The Breath of a Whale

The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants

by Leigh Calvez
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019

From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales. Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates...
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by Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller: Explore earth’s most precious, mysterious resource—the ocean—with the author of Silent Spring.   With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in...
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Fatal Forecast

An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

by Michael J. Tougias
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007

A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eight young fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again. On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small Massachusetts lobster boats...
Cover of Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
by Robert Kunzig
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000

A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader. The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species...
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