Oceans category: 226 books
Oceans
and the Future of the Human Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
We have lived with the Oceans and utilized its services since time immemorial. We are drawn to the sea, for the coasts offer many benefits to local communities. Indeed we don't need to live near the beach to be connected to the Ocean. Oceans, a critical player in the basic elements we need to survive,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives. The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment is a...
by Hseham Amrahs
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
It is often said that our world resides in a small seed. In the same way, a small seed has a whole tree inside it. These trees and plants are our first mothers. Their leaves, flowers, roots, fruits and seeds are a part of our daily diet and provide us nutrition. Without these trees our world is incomplete....
by Joe Kraynak, Kim W. Tetrault
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Although our oceans are some of the most beautiful and diverse environments in the world, most people know very little about the ocean's ecology or just how much humans depend on the oceans for survival.
The Complete Idiot's Guide' to the Oceans will be a marine-lover's reference for mapping...
Oceans
Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago. This book explains how our oceans continue to support and influence life in important ways: by providing the largest global source...
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...
Protecting the World's Oceans
From Vision to Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The World Ocean Conference (WOC) 2009 and Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) Summit week was the first large-scale international event to bring together both ocean and climate change stakeholders and specialists. The presentations and panel discussions held during WOC 2009 highlighted the central role...
Oceana
Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe—the massive destruction...
The Whale Warriors
The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars
For the crew of the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat, any day saving a whale is a good day to die. In The Whale Warriors, veteran adventure writer Peter Heller takes us on a hair-raising journey with a vigilante crew on their mission...
by Michele Oka Doner
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A book that reveals the wondrous marine creatures deep in the heart of the endangered oceans that cover most of our planet.
With the oceans covering over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, our planet can be called a marine planet. Beneath the waves are millions of remarkable creatures—beautiful...
Wild Sea
A History of the Southern Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
“The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessible part of the planetary ocean, the only part...
Junk Raft
An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
An exciting account of an activist scientist’s unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft”
News media brought the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution...
Two Oceans
A guide to the marine life of southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
For over two decades Two Oceans has been the pre-eminent book to which scientists, students, divers and beachcombers turn to identify and learn about marine life, from sponges to whales and seaweeds to dune forests. In this exuberantly colourful, fully revised fourth edition, over 2 000 species are...
by Frank Sherwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The oceans may well be Earth’s final frontier. These dark and sometimes mysterious waters cover 71 percent of the surface area of the globe and have yet to be fully explored. Under the waves, a watery world of frail splendor, foreboding creatures, vast mountains, and sights beyond imagination awaits....