Fish Ocean Life category: 917 books
Fishes of the Maldives – Indian Ocean
Applicable to Central and Western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Seychelles, Mauritius/Reunion, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Chagos, Laccadives, Cocos Keeling Islands.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The only ebook you need for snorkelling and diving in the Maldives. Over 300 pages of stunning fish photography, concise expert information, diagrams and easy to reference icons. Written by a Marine Biologist Tim Godfrey and and Marine Expert, Rudi Kuiter. This new edition now features Sharks and...
by Elspeth Probyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a food politics that is overwhelmingly land based...
The Ocean of Life
The Fate of Man and the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)
Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads...
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...
by Richard Schweid, Richard Schweid
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
When pulled from the mud of creeks, ponds, rivers, or the sea, the eel, with its slick, snake-like body, emerges as an extremely mundane and even unappealing fish. But don’t let the appearance fool you—the eel has been one of the world’s favorite foods since ancient Greece, and the eel’s life...
Blue Urbanism
Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relationship between urban development and the ocean. Modern society...
In Pursuit of Giants
One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
For millennia the great fish—marlin, bluefin tuna, and swordfish—have reigned over the world’s oceans and awed human beings. Naturalists, photographers, sportfishermen, and writers from Zane Grey to Ernest Hemingway have been inspired by their beauty, power, and sheer size. But like much other...
What a Fish Knows
The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking...
Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
"A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review.
Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the...
In a Perfect Ocean
The State Of Fisheries And Ecosystems In The North Atlantic Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Recdecades have been marked by the decline or collapse of one fishery after another around the world, from swordfish in the North Atlantic to orange roughy in the South Pacific. While the effects of a collapse on local economies and fishing-dependcommunities have generated much discussion, little...
The Ocean World
Being a Description of the Sea and its Living Inhabitants (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
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"Our Planet is surrounded by two great oceans," says Dr. Maury, the eminent American savant: "the one visible, the other invisible; one is under foot, the other over head. One entirely envelopes it, the other covers about two-thirds of its surface." It is proposed in...
Fisherman's Blues
A West African Community at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE
An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.**
The sea is broken, fishermen say....
Sex in the Sea
Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
An Oprah.com "Best Book for National Reading Month"
Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full...
by David Helvarg
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
The oceans, and the challenges they face, are so vast that it’s easy to feel powerless to protect them. 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, written by veteran environmental journalist David Helvarg, focuses on practical, easily-implemented actions everyone can take to protect and conserve this vital resource....