Oceanography (seas and oceans) Books
Beacon Press Junk Raft An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of
Book SynopsisAn exciting account of a scientist’s expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft” in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution A scientist, activist, and inveterate adventurer, Eriksen and his co-navigator, Joel Paschal, construct a “junk raft” made of plastic trash and set themselves adrift from Los Angeles to Hawaii, with no motor or support vessel, confronting perilous cyclones, food shortages, and a fast decaying raft. As Eriksen recounts his struggles to keep afloat, he immerses readers in the deep history of the plastic pollution crisis and the movement that has arisen to combat it. The proliferation of cheap plastic products during the twentieth century has left the world awash in trash. Meanwhile, the plastics industry, with its lobbying muscle, fights tooth and nail against any changes that would affect its lucrative status quo, instead defending poorly designed products and deflecting responsibil
£15.29
University of Hawai'i Press Surf Science An Introduction to Waves for Surfing
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£37.95
Tilbury House,U.S. The Pier at the End of the World
Book SynopsisThe Pier at the End of the World follows a day in the life of the creatures lurking in the cold, tide-swept waters beneath a remote pier on the edge of a northern sea. From dawn to darkness, bizarre and beautiful animals crawl, swim, lurk, and slither thr
£9.65
Red Deer Press The Living Beach Life Death and Politics Where the Land Meets the Sea
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£19.89
Leete's Island Books,U.S. The Once and Future Ocean
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£16.10
Leete's Island Books,U.S. The Once and Future Ocean
Book SynopsisTrade Review"We live on an ocean planet, though most of us rarely remember it; that blindness is one of the reasons we've stood by as the seas acidified, one of the great environmental crises in human history. This powerful book reminds us that our maritime identity is one important way we can start rebuilding a damaged planet." Bill McKibben, author, Eaarth ; founder, 350.org"I recommended this book to all my friends and co-workers, no matter what their background; the book speaks to everyone and provides guidance on how we can take steps at home and in our workplace to start initiating this change. The book had a deep impact on me personally; I have started to do more to play my part and have included my son on our journey towards contributing to a new hydraulic society." Mireille Chiasson, Regional Manager, Oceans Management & Ecosystem Management, Fisheries and Oceans, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada"In the spirit of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us , Neill not only raises concern for our rapidly deteriorating marine environment, but also offer the concept of a 'New hydraulic society' and its great potential for a world looking for an alternative solution." Dr. Paul Mayewski, Director, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine"This book represents an interesting and important contribution for a better public awareness of the great importance of the Oceans -- and Water itself -- for the survival of our Planet. It is essential to change into a new development paradigm, based on the values of sustainability and democracy." Mario Soares, Chair, Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans
£19.76
Leete's Island Books,U.S. Aqua Terra
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Big governments, big economies, and big polluters are coming to the realization that the Blue-Green recovery is the smart choice. With the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration getting underway next year, we should prepare ourselves for good works ahead. Personal voices can move us to partake in those good works. Through his personal reflections and 'oceanic feelings', Peter Neill gives us inspiration through this collection of ocean essays." Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy for the Ocean"With a passion for all things ocean, Peter Neill takes us on an informative and inspirational journey through time and space, history and Nature. This is without question one of the most thought-provoking and motivating books about the ocean I have read." Wendy M. Watson-Wright, PhD IOC-UNESCO; Ocean Frontier Institute"True to his title, Peter Neill gives us a new, universal vocabulary for understanding our complex relationship with the waters of the world. Aqua Terra is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to refine their bonds with the world ocean." Lincoln Paine, author of The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
£13.25
McGraw-Hill Companies Loose Leaf for Investigating Oceanography
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£147.82
Johns Hopkins University Press The Science of Ocean Waves
Book SynopsisZirker is that rare animal who can both communicate the most demanding technical detail and make it accessible.-New ScientistTrade ReviewFrom ocean scientists and surfers-to whom it brings some different and interesting ways of looking at things; to the amateur who's always been slightly curious... You'll never look at the sea in the same way again. -- Chris Almond Weather This fascinating book is hard to put down... [ The Science of Ocean Waves] is an interesting read for scientists and laypeople, and it would make a great book for an undergraduate oceanography class. Choice In his new book, The Science of Ocean Waves: Ripples, Tsunamis, and Stormy Seas, J. B. Zirker offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of a familiar phenomenon whose complexity is hardly appreciated by nonscientists. Zirker's deep insights, historic perspectives, and excellent narrative, which he provides with minimal graphics and without a single equation, make the book a fascinating read... The Science of Ocean Waves is truly a remarkable achievement. It has a great chance to become a standard text for students, scientist, weather and ocean forecasters, engineers, climate modelers, and anyone else whose curiosity or professional interests relate to ocean waves. -- Alexander Babanin Physics TodayTable of ContentsPreface1. A Walk along the Beach2. What Exactly Is a Wave?3. How the Wind Generates Ocean Waves4. A Touch of Reality: How Big Waves Behave5. Observations at Sea: The Postwar Boom6. Forecasting and Monitoring Storm Waves7. Breaking Waves8. Freaks and Rogues9. Tsunamis10. Internal Waves and El Niño11. The Tides12. The Currents13. Ship Waves14. Renewable Energy from Waves and Tides15. The FutureGlossaryIndex
£37.50
National Geographic Society National Geographic Ocean
Book SynopsisDiscover the world's ocean--from tides and currents to the creatures living in it to the impact it has on our lives, whether we know it or not--in this richly illustrated overview of the life force that defines and sustains our planet, written by world-renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle. Everything you want to know about the ocean can be found inside these beautiful and dynamic pages. National Geographic Ocean unveils the power and significance of our planet's watery essence: the fundamental importance of the ocean in shaping Earth's climate and chemistry as well as its vital role in supporting a multitude of life-forms, including our own human race. World-renowned oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer in Residence Sylvia Earle--affectionately called 'Her Deepness'--guides readers with her lyrical style and inspiring wisdom, describing the evolution, beauty, and impact of our ocean; the challenges it faces, such a
£49.50
Chronicle Books Paper Sumo
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£12.75
Capstone Press Ocean Discoveries
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£999.99
Fitzhenry & Whiteside The North Atlantic Right Whale: Disappearing
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£21.21
Bunker Hill Publishing Inc Diappearing Giants: The North Atlantic Right
Book SynopsisThe North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is the most endangered large whale in the oceans today. Fewer than 350 are left in their breeding and feeding grounds, which extend from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico. Survivors of hundreds of years of commercial exploitation, the right whales we see in the ocean today are barometers for the plight of whales in the 21st century. For over 900 years, beginning about a.d. 1000, whalers from Europe and the Americas hunted North Atlantic right whales almost out of existence. By 1935, when they were at last given international protection as an endangered species, some scientists suspected that there were fewer than 100 right whales left in the North Atlantic Ocean. Most thought the right whale was doomed to extinction. Disappearing Giants: The North Atlantic Right Whale describes and illustrates an ongoing story of science and rediscovery, of survival and protection, and of research, without which we cannot hope to protect the right whale's habitat along 1,400 miles of the east coast of North America, from Nova Scotia to Florida. Disappearing Giants: The North Atlantic Right Whale also describes in great detail the history and current status of the species, from the reason for its name, to the way each individual can be recognized, the species' feeding and breeding habits, migration, and life in the wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean. Scott Kraus is the director of research and Kenneth Mallory is the editor-in-chief of the publishing program at the New England Aquarium. Between them they have published books and numerous scientific papers as well as children's books, one of which they wrote together, Search for the Right Whale, published in 1992.
£7.95
Regal House Publishing LLC Changing Tides
Book SynopsisPact Press brings you Changing Tides, the fourth anthology in a series designed to spark conversation, promote awareness, and generate funds to advance social and environmental justice and amplify the voices of the marginalized. The poems, essays, and personal reflections in Changing Tides detail moving accounts of the human impact on our ocean environment and demonstrate the heightened need for individual, community, and global action in addressing what has become a collective crisis for life on this blue planet. Pact Press is proud, through the sale of this anthology, to support the work of the Coral Restoration Foundation™, a 501 3 (c) non-profit organization that was founded in 2007 in response to the widespread loss of the dominant coral species on the Florida Reef Tract. Coral Restoration Foundation™ (CRF) now manages the largest coral restoration program in the world. The contributors include Jared Benjamin, Susan Bruce, Kersten Christianson, Lorraine Jeffrey, Olivia Kingery, Liberty Lawson, Jayne Marek, Anthony Panegyres, Gerard Sarnat, Christina Stefan, Franciszka Voeltz, Tonya Wiley, Juliet Wilson, Sheree Winslow, and Mandy-Suzanne Wong.
£12.56
University of Utah Press,U.S. Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean
Book SynopsisThe world is at a critical moment, when humans must grapple with thinking about the planet’s oceans from ecological, physical, social, and legal perspectives. Warming ocean temperatures, changing currents, cultural displacement, Indigenous resilience, melting polar ice, habitat loss, are but a few of the global issues reflected in the planetary ocean as a front line in the unfolding drama of climate change. Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean brings together leading scientists, lawyers, humanists, and Indigenous voices to tell of the ocean’s precarious position in the twenty-first century. The contributors affirm that the planetary ocean is crucial to our well-being and overdue for a positive change in public action to enhance the world’s resilience to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors. These essays begin that crucial work of positively re-imagining the ocean in the Anthropocene. This volume brings diverse perspectives to the planet’s ocean future. New essays are contextualized with narratives woven from earlier ocean writers, showing readers how past perceptions of the ocean have led us to where we are today in terms of both problems and potential new visions. In this one volume, readers experience both the history of humanity’s multi- and interdisciplinary interactions with the ocean, find new perspectives on that history, and discover ideas for looking forward.Trade ReviewThe book makes a unique contribution in bringing together thinkers across a wide range of disciplines, from oceanography to law to literary criticism. There are a number of new voices contributing insights into ocean management, ocean protection, and ocean narrative."—Anastasia M. Telesetsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo “This collection is unique and innovative in coordinating the knowledge of scholars from the sciences and the humanities, as well as notably in highlighting the importance of a legal perspective. The writing is engaging and replete with pithy citations along with memorable, helpful details. Re-envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean is at once enjoyable, sobering, and thought-provoking."—Margaret Cohen, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents 1. Introduction: Why Re- envision the Anthropocene Ocean? By Robin Kundis Craig and Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy Part I. Re- envisioning the Ocean as Connection Editors’ Introduction to Part I 2. Literary Oceans: Ship, Crew, Climate by Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy 3. Creating Ocean: Planetary Immersion and Premodern Globalization by Steve Mentz 4. Minds Tossing on the Ocean: Venice, the Sea, and the Crisis of Imagination by Shaul Bassi 5. Mobilizing Vessels and Voices: “A Climate Movement in the Pacific, for the Pacific, and with the Pacific” by Taylor Cunningham Part II. Re- envisioning Ocean Protection Editors’ Introduction to Part II 6. Humanity’s Changing Relationship with the Ocean by Jeremy B. C. Jackson 7. A Reservation of Water by Thomas Michael Swensen 8. Re-envisioning the Value of Marine Spaces in Law: Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association v. Ross by Robin Kundis Craig 9. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Reforming the National Ocean Policy for the Twenty- First Century by Nathaniel E. Broadhurst 10. Rights of Nature: The Answer to Our Oceanic Issues? by Abigail Benesh Part III. Re- envisioning Ocean Action Editors’ Introduction to Part III 11. Plastic in the Pacific: How to Address an Environmental Catastrophe by Christopher Finlayson 12. Recrafting Narratives to Disrupt the Oceanic Plastic Plague by Brenda B. Bowen 13. Adaptive and Interactive Futures: Developing “Serious Games” for Coastal Community Engagement and Decision-Making by Kathryn K. Davies, Benjamin A. Davies, Paula Blackett, Paula Holland, and Nicholas Cradock- Henry 14. The Human Face of the Ocean: Creative Collaboration for Conservation Tierney Thys 15. Conclusion: Ocean Wildlife Photography as a Metaphor for the Anthropocene Ocean by Robin Kundis Craig Appendices: Inspiring Ocean Voices Editors’ Introduction Appendix A: A Deeper Historical Perspective 1. Excerpt from The Free Sea, by Hugo Grotius 2. “They that Occupy Their Business on Great Waters,” excerpt from Atlantic, by Simon Winchester 3. “From Davy Jones’ Locker to the Foot Locker: The Case of the Floating Nikes,” excerpt from The Social Construction of the Ocean, by Philip E. Steinberg Appendix B: A Broader Global Perspective 1. “Our Sea of Islands,” by Epeli Hau‘ofa 2. “Just Where Does One Get a License to Kill Indians?,” excerpt from The Sea Is My Country, by Joshua L. Reid 3. “Praise Song for Oceania,” by Craig Santos Perez 4. Excerpt from “Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small Island States,” by Maxine Burkett Appendix C: A Snapshot of the Last Century of Scientific Calls to Arms 1. “The Encircling Sea,” excerpt from The Sea Around Us, by Rachel Carson 2. “Summary for Policymakers,” excerpt from Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change About the Contributors Index
£999.99
Phaidon Press Océanos (Ocean) (Spanish Edition)
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£55.24
Dry Climate Studios Beach Chairs Art Print 11x14
£13.46
Dry Climate Studios Puget Sound Orca Mother and Baby Art Print 11x14
£13.46
Massey University Press Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning
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£24.79
