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Tiefsee

Reise zu einem unerforschten Planeten

by Leo Ochsenbauer
Language: German
Release Date: October 8, 2012

Die Tiefsee - ein geheimnisvoller, fremder Planet, unbekannter als das Weltall und unerforschter als der Mond. Tief in den Weltmeeren leben die ungewöhnlichsten Tiere, die kostbare Heilmittel bergen können. Unzählige Wracks, die stummen Zeugen der Vergangenheit, liegen dort auf Grund, und längst...
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Was lebt an Strand und Küste?

142 Arten einfach bestimmen

by Ute Wilhelmsen
Language: German
Release Date: December 9, 2016

Der praktische Naturführer enthält Pflanzen und Tiere im Portrait. Durch den Kosmos-Farbcode ist ein sicheres Bestimmen möglich.
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Hundherum glücklich

Ein Freund. Ein Buch.

by Mara Andeck
Language: German
Release Date: October 11, 2013

Ein Hund ist ein echter Freund - und den möchte man möglichst gut kennen. Hundherum glücklich ist darum kein Ratgeber, sondern eine unterhaltsame Sammlung von Fakten rund um den Hund, überraschend, schlau und voller Witz. Hier bekommen Hundebesitzer Antworten auf all die Fragen, die sie sich beim...
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Thau oasis de vie

Écosystèmes, patrimoines et paysages sous-marins

by Frédéric Maxant, Jean-Pierre Quignard, Rémi Gantès
Language: French
Release Date: April 15, 2004

Ce livre d’exception "Thau, oasis de vie" réunit les clichés d’un des meilleurs photographes subaquatiques et les textes des plus grands spécialistes de la biologie sous-marine, de la géologie et de l’histoire de cette région. Thau, ni mer ni lagune, est tout à la fois...
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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 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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The Finest Hours

The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

by Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009

The true story of an incredible disaster and heroic rescue at sea told by two masterful storytellers. In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril. In...
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The Great Sea

A Human History of the Mediterranean

by David Abulafia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself:...
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How to Read Water

Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

by Tristan Gooley
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016

A New York Times Bestseller A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016 Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds like a Polynesian—with a little help from the “natural navigator”!   In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural...
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by James A. Michener, A. Grove Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some...
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不平靜的太平洋:大航海時代的權力競技場,牽動人類命運的海洋史

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

by 賽門‧溫契斯特(Simon Winchester)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: June 8, 2017

**研究古代歷史,不可不知地中海;綜觀今時國際,不可不知大西洋 想掌握未來世界,一定要了解太平洋! 從日不落國至日落帝國的黃昏,殖民到獨立的世界新秩序形成 政治分斷、軍事角逐、氣候變遷、能源環境、物種發現的新研究 太平洋──絕非「太平無事」的海洋 這片美麗、脆弱、巨大的海洋 面臨諸多潛在挑戰與危機,左右著人類的前途 《紐約時報》暢銷書作家 溫契斯特 繼膾炙人口的暢銷書《大西洋》《美國統一功臣》後,最新力作 精彩而生動地探討太平洋的過去、現在,以及它所牽動的未來 深究太平洋現代史上十大關鍵事件 風靡西方國家的電晶體收音機、衝浪活動、化學武器汙染、極端氣候、深海熱泉、珊瑚白化、南北韓分裂、香港回歸、澳洲政局、南海爭奪等** 太平洋廣大得令人難以想像,它是迄今世上最大水域,覆蓋地球表面積近三分之一,對全球的影響亦十分巨大:不僅是世界氣候模式的源頭,也是最危險板塊碰撞運動的核心,海面下一萬多公尺處更有全球最深的海溝。它是西方人發現的最後一座海洋,也是牽引世界前途的大洋,這片幅員廣達1.8億平方公里的水域所發生的一切,攸關著人類全體的命運。 知名作家與探險家溫契斯特,詳述這片複雜得令人目不暇給的巨洋,自1950年代以降所經歷的種種關鍵時刻,以及影響迄今的重大趨勢和事件。讀者首先看到比基尼環礁舉行原子彈試爆後,因遭輻射汙染而成為徒留某種超現實景觀的無人島。書中除了介紹令全球年輕人趨之若鶩的衝浪活動由來背景,也揭露小型電晶體收音機如何點燃從日本東京延燒到美國矽谷的數位革命,進而改變人類的生活,還提到澳洲大堡礁的驚人發現和海底神祕噴口的探勘活動,對於太平洋周邊領土的地緣政治變化、流氓國家北韓的興起、英國殖民時代的結束亦有所著墨,並兼論環境惡化與氣候變遷為這個龐大水域帶來的威脅。 溫契斯特長期接觸太平洋及周邊區域,憑藉淵博的歷史學識和無人能出其右的敘事長才,以生動的文筆為這片浩瀚無垠、美麗神祕、引人遐思的大海寫下這部禮讚之作。 《不平靜的太平洋》首先揭露太平洋絕非「太平無事」的海洋,它其實是個原子海。第二章敘述電晶體收音機的發明和索尼公司的成立經過。第三章提到令全世界年輕人趨之若鶩的衝浪活動。第四章描述早年的北韓政權極度渴望自食其力,邁向經濟與文化獨立,如今該政權因國內政治殘暴、國際行為乖張而淪為笑柄,它持續不斷對外挑釁固然讓今日的太平洋蒙塵,卻具有關鍵性的影響力。隨著殖民列強在擾嚷不安中陸續撤出太平洋區,近年來日本人與其他原住民──美洲印第安人、澳洲土著、毛利人、太平洋諸島居民──又重新投入太平洋事務的運作。第五章以一艘英國遠洋郵輪在太平洋英屬殖民地海域發生重大火災事故拉開序幕,接著提到法國人撤出中南半島、美國人撤離越南、荷蘭人與葡萄牙人揮別其他殖民地,以及領土遍布世界的大英帝國放棄各處殖民地以後,太平洋居民終於獲得早在幾百年前就該享有的自主權。第七章探討澳洲將來會扮演何種角色,會不會在短期之內、長期之後,或是永久、持續運用某種區域勢力? 第六、第八、第九章論及太平洋是形成世界氣候模式的根源,以及爆發危險板塊運動的核心,它蘊藏了大量可供全世界掠奪或維護的海底資源,卻首當其衝遭遇了全球難以逃避的環境危機。第十章是最值得關注的話題:中國。 ※...
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The Lost Fleet

The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy

by Barry Clifford, Kenneth Kinkor
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010

On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy. Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean...
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by Peter Lehner with Bob Deans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5 000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico the 560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then on April 20 2010 BP's dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion...
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The Atlantic Coast

A Natural History

by Harry Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011

Winner of the Lane Anderson Award for Best Science Writing An authoritative and fascinating exploration of the natural history of the east coast of North America. The North Atlantic coast of North America -- commonly known as the Atlantic Coast -- extends from Newfoundland and Labrador...
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