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Transportation Research Board National Research Rockfall
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National Academies Press CrossCutting Themes for U.S. Contributions to the
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NATL ACADEMY PR Oil in the Sea IV Inputs Fates and Effects
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National Academies Press Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States
Book SynopsisAddressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. The United States has a historic opportunity to lead the way in decarbonization by transforming its current energy system to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide. Recent legislation has set the nation on the path to reach its goal of net zero by 2050 in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. However, even if implemented as designed, current policy will get the United States only part of the way to its net-zero goal. Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States provides a comprehensive set of actionable recommendations to help policymakers achieve a just and equitable energy transition over the next decade and beyond, including policy, technology, and societal dimensions. This report addresses federal and subnational policy needs to overcome implementation barriers and gaps with a focus on energy justice, workforce development, public health, and public engagement. The report also presents a suite of recommendations for the electricity, transportation, built environment, industrial, fossil fuels, land use, and finance sectors. Table of ContentsFront MatterExecutive SummarySummary1 Introduction2 Energy Justice and Equity3 Public Health Co-Benefits and Impacts of Decarbonization4 Workforce Needs, Opportunities, and Support5 Public Engagement to Build a Strong Social Contract for Deep Decarbonization6 The Essential Role of Clean Electricity7 The Built Environment8 Land Use9 Transport10 Industrial Decarbonization11 Aligning the Financial Sector and Capital Markets with the Energy Transition12 The Future of Fossil Fuels13 Enhancing and Realizing the Climate Ambitions and Capacities of Subnational Actors: State and Local Government PerspectivesAppendixesAppendix A: Committee Member Biographical InformationAppendix B: Disclosure of Unavoidable Conflicts of InterestAppendix C: First Report Policy RecommendationsAppendix D: Public MeetingsAppendix E: Decarbonization Technologies and Related Equity and Justice ConcernsAppendix F: Equity and Justice Scorecard: Inflation Reduction Act ProvisionsAppendix G: Disadvantaged Community as Defined by Implementers of Justice40 Covered ProgramsAppendix H: Public Health Provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction ActAppendix I: Public Engagement Scorecard: Current Federal Policy PortfolioAppendix J: Select Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act Provisions Implicating Subnational EntitiesAppendix K: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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National Academies Press Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities
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National Academies Press A Vision for ContinentalScale Biology
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National Academies Press Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation
Book SynopsisFor more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the U.S., including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible precipitation, termed Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP). Failure of any one of the more than 16,000 high-hazard dams and 50 nuclear power plants in the United States could result in the loss of life and impose significant economic losses and widespread environmental damage, especially under the pressures of climate change. While PMP estimates have provided useful guidance for designing critical infrastructure, weaknesses in the scientific foundations of PMP, combined with advances in understanding, observing, and modeling extreme storms, call for fundamental changes to the definition of PMP and the methods used to estimate it. Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimation recommends a new definition of PMP and presents a vision for a methodology relevant for design, operation, and regulat
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National Academies Press Increasing the Utility of Wastewaterbased Disease
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National Academies Press Forecasting the Ocean
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National Academies Press Climate Change and Human Migration
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Zondervan Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible
Book SynopsisThe Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible by Carl G. Rasmussen is a concise, full-color atlas filled with stunning multidimensional and three-dimensional maps, photos, and charts designed to help you better understand the history and places of the Bible and its world.
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Zondervan A Christians Guide to Planet Earth
Book SynopsisFrom conservation to protecting endangered species to sustainable living, A Christian''s Guide to Planet Earth offers a faith-based framework for viewing our responsibility to the natural world as well as practical, biblical ways we can care for the magnificent creation around us.Drawing on science and Scripture, this hope-filled and reader-friendly guide helps us navigate questions about caring for and respecting God''s world. With a focus on real-life solutions, this book explores answers to questions such as: What does the Bible say about food shortages, forests, and pollution? How can we make ethical choices about what we eat and what we wear? Why is reducing our carbon footprint a way of loving others? What do animals tell us about God''s design for the earth? What simple choices can we make to help recover God''s beauty in creation? Four-color infographics throughout highlight theTrade ReviewThis is a practical and inspiring book. With admirable brevity, Betsy Painter takes us on a journey around the wonders of creation, along the way providing a balanced assessment of the challenges we face and informed, detailed advice about how we can faithfully care for God's beautiful earth. It's rare to find such a rich combination of the scientific, biblical and practical in a compact and accessible format. Highly recommended! * Dr. Jonathan Moo, Professor of New Testament and Environmental Studies, Whitworth University *
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St Martin's Press A Voyage Long and Strange
Book Synopsis A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America''s history vividly to life. What happened in North America between Columbus''s sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims'' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn''t have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the wild era when Europeans first roamed the New World in quest of gold, glory, converts, and eternal youth. Horwitz tells the story of these brave and often crazed explorers while retracing their steps on his own epic trek--an odyssey that takes him inside an Indian sweat lodge in subarctic Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, on a road trip fueled by buffalo meat, and into sixty pounds of armor as a conquistador reenactor in Florida.
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St Martin's Press No Impact Man
Book SynopsisBill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man''s decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one yearwhile still living in New York Cityto see if it''s possible to make no net impact on the environment.In No Impact Man, a guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasonsloving wife along for the ride. And that''s just the beginning. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no air-conditioning, no television . . .What would it be like to try to live a no-impact lifestyle? Is it possible? Could it catch on? Is living this way more satisfying or less satisfying? Harder or easier? Is it wor
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St. Martins Press-3pl MELTING WORLD
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St Martin's Press Part of the Pride
Book SynopsisIn Part of the Pride, Kevin Richardson, recently dubbed The Lion Man on 60 Minutes, tells the story of how he grew from a young boy who loved animals to become a man able to cross the divide between humans and predators, looking some of the world''s most dangerous animals directly in the eye, playing with them and even kissing them on the nose-all without ever being attacked or injured. As a self-taught animal behaviorist, Richardson has broken every safety rule known to humans when working with these wild animals. Flouting common misconceptions that breaking an animal''s spirit with sticks and chains is the best way to subdue them, he uses love, understanding and trust to develop personal bonds with them. His unique method of getting to know their individual personalities, what makes each of them angry, happy, upset, or irritated has caused them to accept him like one of their own into their fold. Richardson allows the animals'' own stories to share center stage as he tells rea
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St Martin's Press Why the West RulesFor Now
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA remarkable book . . . an important book?one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start right here.?The EconomistSometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West''s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules?for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines?from ancient history to neuroscience?not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
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St Martin's Press Merchant Kings
Book SynopsisCommerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people.The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue''s gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded appr
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St. Martins Press-3PL rewildingtheworld
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Unnatural Disasters
Book SynopsisEntries clearly describe each disaster by defining the cause, the consequences, and the clean-up efforts.Readers will learn who the responsible parties were, the effect on the environment and people living in the immediate area, and the economic impact of each disaster.
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ABC-CLIO The Pursuit of Ecotopia Lessons from Indigenous
Book SynopsisThe world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world.Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term, narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a long-term, global view of ecotopiaa conception in which the destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and stewardship.In this controversial and brilliantly writteTrade ReviewEssential. All levels/libraries. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface 1 People in Nature 2 Learning from Others 3 Rationality, Emotion, and Economics 4 Political Ecology 5 Environmental Justice 6 "All Politics Is Local," and All Is Now Global 7 Going Past the Land Ethic 8 New Moral Codes Notes References Index About the Author
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Little, Brown & Company The Neighborhood Project
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Little, Brown & Company Countdown
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Back Bay Books The End of Night
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Little, Brown & Company The Water Will Come
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Little, Brown & Company Soul Full of Coal Dust
Book SynopsisDecades have passed since black lung disease was recognized as a national disgrace and Congress was pushed to take legislative action. Since then, however, not much has changed. Big coal companies-along with their allies in the legal and medical professions-have continually flouted the law and exposed miners to deadly amounts of coal dust, while also systematically denying benefits to miners who suffer and die because of their jobs. Indeed, these men and their families, with little access to education, legal resources, and other employment options, have long been fighting to wrench even modest compensation and medical costs from our nation''s biggest mining interests-all to combat a disease that could have been eradicated years ago. Tracing their heroic stories back to the very beginning, Chris Hamby, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on this issue, gives us a deeply troubling yet ultimately triumphant work that promises to do for Black Lung what Beth Macy did for t
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Hachette Books Granite Mountain
Book SynopsisThe true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A unique and bracing (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona''s disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 hotshots -- firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. Despite the crew''s skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh''s firm but loving encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and dedication, going on to suc
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Little Brown and Company The Rift
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Little, Brown & Company Shoot for the Moon
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Little Brown and Company The Ground Beneath Us From the Oldest Cities to
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Back Bay Books Natural Capitalism
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Little, Brown Spark Eat Poop Die
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Hachette Books The Dinosaur Artist
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Back Bay Books Show Me a Hero
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Back Bay Books Kings of the Yukon One Summer Paddling Across the
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Little, Brown Spark Rivers of Power
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Little, Brown & Company The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States
Book SynopsisLearn all you need to know about identifying and attracting finches with this comprehensive, gloriously colorful field guide from America?s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Following the extraordinary finch superflight of 2020-2021, birders across the country became obsessed with finches. With The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada, you can gain expert knowledge on these beautiful birds and bring them into your own yard. Thisfully illustrated guide tells you all you need to know about attracting, observing, and protecting finches. The book also includes: A special section on endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper finches, plus other rare and vagrant species Detailed identification information on each finch species? plumages, subspecies, and voice The most complete and up-to-date range maps, including maps of core occurrence and irruption ranges for all red crossbill call types, which have never before been published in a guide Complete life history information Scientific studies on finch migrations and conservation More than 345 stunning full-color photographs and over 50 range maps covering 43 species
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Little, Brown & Company Rooted
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperilled, beloved earth?Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt''s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways-from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness-and wildness-that sustains humans and all of life.In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.
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Back Bay Books Utopia for Realists
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Hachette Books The Precipice
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Hachette Books The Precipice
Book SynopsisIn this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times). Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last.'A book that seems made for the present moment.' —New Yorker
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Little, Brown & Company The Heat Will Kill You First
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND THE ECONOMIST FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM, AND THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD FOR LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING.New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a 'masterful, bracing' (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at stake if we fail to act. “When heat comes, it’s invisible. It doesn’t bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it’s arrived…. The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you.” The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. It’s up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open. The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event— one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic. As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell’s new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it. Masterfully reported, mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Jeff Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before.
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Little, Brown & Company Death in the Air
Book SynopsisA real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson''s debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his de
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Little, Brown & Company Granite Mountain
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Little Brown and Company Ask an Astronaut My Guide to Life in Space
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Little, Brown Spark Not the End of the World
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Little, Brown & Company In Oceans Deep
Book SynopsisFull of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening in earth''s almost incomprehensibly vast oceans.From the bottom of the Challenger Deep (the deepest known point in the ocean), to the earliest submarine technologies and exploratory deep dives, into the world of competitive breath-hold divers and the riskiest thrill seekers on the planet, In Oceans Deep is a human history, and a natural history of the earth''s last true frontier. With treasure ship wrecks, the echoing pings of trapped submariners, and the vast expanse of otherworldly robots and oil rigs that dominate the oceanic landscape, In Oceans Deep is a rare and fascinating trip to the wild, strange, night-dark place that lies beneath the waves.
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