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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Contains 28 essays from 20 different periodicals. Articles range in topic from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hidden in our own bodies. The mix of hard...
author: Richard Preston, editor |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2005 edition of the annual series. Includes essays on NASA and space expoloration, psychology, global warming, medicine and medical research, and a computer hacker.
author: Jonathan Weiner, editor & Tim Folger series editor |
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Deep - The Extraordinary Creatures of the AbyssClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Over 200 color photos of deep-sea creatures give this book a stunning realism. Text by some of the most respected researchers examines the biology of deep-sea organisms, the ecology of deep-sea habit...
author: Claire Nouvian, editor |
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Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the AbyssClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Strikingly illustrated by the author, this book introduces us to the abyssal zone of the Atlantic Ocean (everything below 4000 m). Divided into two sections, it first delves into the history of explo...
author: Richard Ellis |
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Diving to a Deep-Sea VolcanoClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Enter the world of scientists as they spin slowly downward inside a research submarine to more than a mile below the ocean surface where they explore submarine volcanoes, thermal vents and the animals...
author: Kenneth Mallory |
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Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An historical account of the lives, demise , and in some cases the conservation and re-population, of the fishes, turtles, pelagic birds, marine mammals and coral reefs of the oceans. A natural histor...
author: Richard Ellis |
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Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep Sea ExplorationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Ballard's own account of his exploration of the ocean depths and discovery of ancient treasures. Includes color and black & white photographs.
author: Robert D. Ballard with Will Hively |
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Great Waters: An Atlantic PassageClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A thrilling natural history of the Atlantic Ocean and the reliance of humans upon it form the Gulf of Maine to the Sargasso Sea.
author: Deborah Cramer |
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Ice Scientist - Careers in the Frozen AntarcticClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores different careers in the Antarctic using examples of real scientists in the field. Chapters profile an ecologist, paleontologist, geologist, glaciologist, astrophysicist, marine biologist, an...
author: Sara L. Latta |
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Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the US Navy in World War IIClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Highlights the achievements of four women who served in the US Navy during WWII: Mary Sears, oceanographer; Florence von Straten, meteorologist; Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist; and Mina Spieg...
author: Kathleen Broome Williams |
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Mapping the Deep - The Extraordinary Story of Ocean ScienceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The ocean, covering seven-tenths of the planet, is largely unexplored, yet explorations of its hidden depths over the last 50 years have completely transformed our view of it. Kunzig explores what is...
author: Robert Kunzig |
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North Pole Was Here - Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin accompanies a team of scientists studying global warming to the North Pole, and this amazing book chronicles his adventures as well as their work. Includes accou...
author: Andrew C. Revkin |
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Quest: Gulf of Maine (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Quest takes the viewer on a journey to view the life beneath the waves and explores the dynamic web of life in the Gulf of Maine. Concerns about cod, right whales and invasive Asian crabs are feature...
author: Maine PBS |
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Sea Around UsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A naturalist's account of the beginnings of the sea and its life zones, to the tides, and the scientific undersea exploration of the oceans that was first ignited by WWII. Includes black & white pho...
author: Rachel L. Carson |
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Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. HunleyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A story of the mystery, bravery, bone, and gold that surround the history of Civil War submarine, H. L. Hunley, and of the team of scientists who, in 1995, raised the vessel from its watery grave, rec...
author: Sally M. Walker |
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Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of the HMS ChallengerClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A captivating account of the 1872 voyage of the HMS Challenger to map the ocean floor. Filled with adventure, mishap, and pioneering discoveries.
author: Richard Corfield |
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters along the World's Coasts and Beneath the SeasClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An epic personal narrative of a global journey to discover the condition of the ocean... and of mankind.
author: Carl Safina |
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Swimming with Hammerhead SharksClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Another in the "Scientist in the Field" series, this book follows marine biologist Pete Kimley and an IMAX film team as they swim and shoot footage for the film "Island of the Sharks". Vivid photograp...
author: Kenneth Mallory |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Contains 28 essays from 20 different periodicals. Articles range in topic from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hidden in our own bodies. The mix of hard...
author: Richard Preston, editor |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2005 edition of the annual series. Includes essays on NASA and space expoloration, psychology, global warming, medicine and medical research, and a computer hacker.
author: Jonathan Weiner, editor & Tim Folger series editor |
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The Deep - The Extraordinary Creatures of the AbyssClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Over 200 color photos of deep-sea creatures give this book a stunning realism. Text by some of the most respected researchers examines the biology of deep-sea organisms, the ecology of deep-sea habit...
author: Claire Nouvian, editor |
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The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An historical account of the lives, demise , and in some cases the conservation and re-population, of the fishes, turtles, pelagic birds, marine mammals and coral reefs of the oceans. A natural histor...
author: Richard Ellis |
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The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep Sea ExplorationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Ballard's own account of his exploration of the ocean depths and discovery of ancient treasures. Includes color and black & white photographs.
author: Robert D. Ballard with Will Hively |
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The North Pole Was Here - Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin accompanies a team of scientists studying global warming to the North Pole, and this amazing book chronicles his adventures as well as their work. Includes accou...
author: Andrew C. Revkin |
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The Sea Around UsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A naturalist's account of the beginnings of the sea and its life zones, to the tides, and the scientific undersea exploration of the oceans that was first ignited by WWII. Includes black & white pho...
author: Rachel L. Carson |
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The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of the HMS ChallengerClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A captivating account of the 1872 voyage of the HMS Challenger to map the ocean floor. Filled with adventure, mishap, and pioneering discoveries.
author: Richard Corfield |
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Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean MotionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A seafaring adventure that follows the work of oceanographer, Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, as he tracks trash floating the world's oceans, a project turned career, inspired by his inquisitive mother, that i...
author: Loree Griffin Burns |
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VenomClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Learn about the variety of venomous creatures, where they can be found, and how their toxins work. Whether biting, stinging, spraying, or just oozing their poison, these animals serve different purpo...
author: Marilyn Singer |
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Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale ScientistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Another in the "Scientists in the Field" series, which gives young people a close up look at scientists, the work they do, and how they came to do that work. This book follows John Craighead George, s...
author: Peter Lourie |
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