Oceans category: 226 books
by Hap Tivey
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Nehalem explores the impact of illegal international fishing on a community where the ocean provides practical and spiritual meaning for local lives and relationships. Surfers and fishermen from a small Oregon harbor town respond to the threat of salmon extinction when miles of deadly drift nets begin...
The Gulf Stream
Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Coursing through the Atlantic Ocean is a powerful current with a force 300 times that of the mighty Amazon. Ulanski explores the fascinating science and history of this sea highway known as the Gulf Stream, a watery wilderness that stretches from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic. Spanning both...
by John Archer-Thomson, Julian Cremona
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Rocky Shores explores the species, communities and landscape of the narrow strip of land surrounding much of the British Isles. While it may be limited in extent, this habitat is incredibly biodiverse, and this insightful book details all the patterns of marine life that might be encountered on sheltered...
Protecting Sanibel and Captiva Islands
The Conservation Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
The vibrant Sanibel and Captiva Islands are ecological marvels compared to Florida's many overbuilt barrier islands. Development began with the construction of the Sanibel Island Lighthouse in 1884, when only the lighthouse keeper and assistant and their families lived on the island. Noted conservationist...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 2, Ocean and Coastal Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life. This second volume in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (a multivolumed work edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and...
ALACALUF
En famille au bout du monde
Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2013
C'est un sillage fabuleux qu'aura tracé Alacaluf. Une grande boucle, avec un passage obligé sur la terre de ses ancêtres, aux confins de la Patagonie. Et, pour le lecteur, c'est un livre en trois dimensions... Subaquatique lorsqu'il plonge avec Alain, en apnée ou en scaphandre, et se fond dans...
by A. Ganesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Water is the most sought resource for human use. Owing to rapid population growth and urbanization as well as rising needs of power generation and modern industry, water has been a major concern, as could be seen from the recent attempts in international cooperation in conserving and utilizing the...
Water and Light
A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
Haaienkoorts
de kunst van het vangen van een grote haai in een rubberbootje op de Noorse Zee
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Haaienkoorts van Morten A. Strøksnes is een avontuurlijk verslag over de zoektocht naar een grote haai op de Noorse zee. Op grote diepte in de oceaan zwemt de Groenlandse haai, die bijna acht meter lang kan worden en meer dan een ton kan wegen. Zijn vlees is giftig voor mens en dier, in zijn blauwe...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Coral reefs are an important tourism resource for many coastal and island destinations and generate a range of benefits to their local communities, including as a food source, income from tourism, employment and recreational opportunities. However, coral reefs are under increasing threat from climate...
Fishes of the Rainbow
Henry Compton's Art of the Reefs
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
In warm, shallow waters around the world, coral reefs teem with tens of thousands of marine species. Reefs rival rain forests in biodiversity, and about a third of the world’s marine fish species live part of their lives on coral reefs.
In the 1960s, marine biologist Henry “Hank” Compton...
by Gilles Fonteneau
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2006
A scientific expedition into unknown parts of the Caribbean to study the tectonic plates of the region answers the intriguing question: Is there a language of fish? Gilles Fonteneau, a longtime colleague of the legendary Jacques Cousteau's Calypso team, fulfilled a lifelong dream when in 2001 he launched...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
A symposium of the Royal Society of Canada was held in June 1962 to outline what is being done in Canadian oceanography to map salinity, temperature, and plankton in the waters around Canada and in the North Atlantic across to Europe. This volume, based on the symposium, emphasizes the interdisciplinary...
by Salma Rehman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Eddie and Jena were enjoying a regular summer day, playing hide-and-seek with their friends, Shayla and Sharky. They found Gus, the sperm whale, who was trapped in a net. Eddie and his friends had to find help for him soon or Gus will die. Their only hope was Bob the shark, but everyone was scared...