Internationally renowned deep-sea pioneer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia A. Earle, in consultation with experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is our peerless guide. This atlas is geared to the popular reader and geography buff rather than to expert oceanographers and geographers. The ...
This important book explores the ocean and its myriad creatures from Earle's perspective of wonder and excitement as one of the world's leading advocates of ocean ecology. Spanning more than 30 years, her adventures paint a brilliant portrait about the critical role of our planet's largest natural resource. Photos.
The author relates some of her adventures studying and exploring the world's oceans, including tracking whales, living in an underwater laboratory, and helping to design a deep water submarine.
In "Chihuly: Seaforms," Artforum art critic Seeman Robinson discusses Chihuly's most exquisite and ethereal series, invoking the spontaneous automatic drawings of the Surrealists, the water lilies of Claude Monet, the action painting of Jackson Pollock, and Henri Matisse's "Swimming Pool." Oceanographer and explorer, Sylvia Earle, former chief ...
As we enter the new millennium, discover in this definitive resource for the ocean, the wonders of the world offshore through more than 200 maps, diagrams, photographs, and satellite images. With deep-sea pioneer and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, Sylvia Earle, discover a world as challenging and untapped as space, as vital to our ...
Let the lives and the wisdom of the Celtic saints teach you to pray. An excellent resource for individuals or groups who want to learn from the masters.
Beginning readers encounter a fascinating array of "sea critters" representing the major categories of life on earth. Includes full-color photos, art, and maps. Full color.
This engaging memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells the story of his life as a pioneering aquarist. From handling great white sharks to ...
By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed - of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction - is the story that unfolds in ...
Prager and Earle, both scientists and divers in their own right, make the ocean world and aquastudies accessible to any reader. This is a thorough introduction to the elegance and importance of oceanography.
This gorgeous gift book offers a glimpse of the ocean world with photos, capturing in pairs a diverse array of marine life. Includes informative captions and essays and an introduction by esteemed oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer Sylvia Earl.
The National Marine Sanctuary system provides an underwater counterpart to America''s National Parks system. In this book, world-acclaimed biologist Sylvia A. Earle explores these 12 sites.'
A jewel-toned parrotfish guides a young snorkeler through the stunning underwater realm of coral reefs. Readers encounter an amazing array of fish, sharks, worms, dolphins, turtles, and other creatures that live in and among the coral--and see how these various animals relate to one another. During this colorful tour, children also discover how ...
This text explains how the study of oceans is more than just oceanography - it must deal with everything from plate tectonics to air pressure to wildlife biology. It offers an exploration of oceans from their origins to the complicated issues surrounding the harvesting of energy and food.
This wondrous tour of the coral reefs of the world contains brief, informative text and dazzling close-up photos that introduce readers to 12 different species of fish that reside in coral reefs. Full-color photos.
The Jump Into Science book, Babies, looks at what babies can and can't do, their development, growth, and more. It follows a newborn home from the hospital under the watchful gaze of his older sister. As she learns, we learn. How fast do babies grow? What do they eat? How do we take care of them? Readers will learn amazing baby facts, such as: ...
This collection of great marine photography by famous underwater photographers includes works by Scott Frier, chief expedition photograper for the Cousteau Society, and Flip Nicklin, the "premier whale photographer in the world". 225 photos.
If humankind were given a mandate to do everything in our power to undermine the earth's functioning, we could hardly do a better job than we have in the past thirty years on the world's oceans, both by what we are putting into it-millions of tons of trash and toxic materials-and by what we are taking out of it-millions of tons of wildlife. Yet ...
Although the ocean provides living space for about 97 percent of life on Earth, less than 5 percent of the ocean below the surface has actually been seen, let alone explored. Now, using the geogrpahic information system (GIS), marine scientists are gaining new insights into a once-mysterious world. A technologically sophisticated database, ...
In coastal cities, you'll see them--giant-size murals celebrating whales and their habitat, painted by Wyland, one of the world's premier environmental artists. Reproductions of many of Wyland's most striking murals are collected in this gorgeous volume. 110 color photos.
Celtic spirituality, with its rich history, sense of wonder, reverence for nature, and colorful personalities, has an enduring appeal for Christians and others in the world today. The Celtic prayer tradition is practical and down-to-earth, and at the same time thoroughly sacramental. It is a way of prayer that remains living and vital for the new ...
Just one hundred and ten miles south of the Texas-Louisiana border, beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, lie two coral reefs, together called the Flower Garden Banks. This coral community, the northernmost reef system in the United States and a national marine sanctuary, is home to hundreds of kinds of fish and other tropical sea life. Manta ...
In the same way GIS has helped make analysis and mapping of the earth's surface more accessible and powerful, GIS technology allows experts to see that large portion of the planet that is underwater. This collection of works from experts in marine biology, oceanography, aquatic resource management, and other fields charts the ways in which GIS is ...
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