Oceans Seas category: 226 books
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...
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 Richard Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Combining exquisite natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, a portrait of a fish whose story is closely intertwined with our own
The Atlantic salmon is an extraordinary and mysterious fish. Here, Richard Shelton combines memoir and deep scientific...
by Tomas Tomascik, Anmarie J. Mah
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas distills for the first time the information found in thousands of scholarly works relevant to an understanding of the sustainable use of marine and coastal resources in these islands&8212;many of them available up to now only in Dutch, German or Indonesian. It...
The Albatross and the Fish
Linked Lives in the Open Seas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast stretches of seemingly empty seas, the albatross remains a legend for most people. And yet, humans are threatening the albatross family to such an extent that it is currently the most threatened bird group...
by Tomas Tomascik, Anmarie J. Mah
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas distills for the first time the information found in thousands of scholarly works relevant to an understanding of the sustainable use of marine and coastal resources in these islands-many of them available up to now only in Dutch, German or Indonesian. It is an invaluable...
What Do We Know About Animals? Life in the Seas
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ANIMALS?, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Animals are everywhere including in the seas. Explore the world of sea creatures in this amazing book.
The Tragedy of the Commodity
Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association
Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and...
Spineless
The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
"Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future."...
The Living Shore
Rediscovering a Lost World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada's western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Along the western side of Vancouver Island, Kingzett nosed into an isolated pocket beach where...
The Omega Principle
Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
By the bestselling author of Four Fish and American Catch, an eye-opening investigation of the history, science, and business behind omega-3 fatty acids, the "miracle compound" whose story is intertwined with human health and the future of our planet
Omega-3 fatty acids have long been celebrated...