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The ocean of life : the fate of man and the sea / by Roberts, Callum,author.(CARDINAL)331270;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-391) and index.Traces the human race's relationship to the ocean, identifying the consequences of modern fishing, pollution, and climate change on marine life while making urgent recommendations for reversing damage.
Subjects: Ocean and civilization.; Ocean;
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The ocean of life : the fate of man and the sea / by Roberts, Callum.(CARDINAL)331270;
MARCIVE 7/3/12Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Changing seas. Four and a half billion years ; Food from the sea ; Fewer fish in the sea ; Winds and currents ; Life on the move ; Rising tides ; Corrosive seas ; Dead zones and the world's great rivers ; Unwholesome waters ; The age of plastic ; The not so silent world ; Aliens, invaders, and the homogenization of life ; Pestilence and plague ; Mare incognitum ; Ecosystems at your service -- pt. 2. Changing course. Farming the sea ; The great cleanup ; Can we cool our warming world? ; A new deal for the oceans ; Life renewed ; Saving the giants of the sea ; Preparing for the worst ; Epilogue : the sea ahead -- Appendix 1. Seafood with a clear conscience -- Appendix 2. Conservation charities working to protect ocean life.Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time.
Subjects: Ocean and civilization.; Ocean;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The unnatural history of the sea / by Roberts, Callum.(CARDINAL)331270;
Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Explorers and Exploiters in the Age of Plenty: The end of innocence ; The origins of intensive fishing ; Newfound lands ; More fish than water ; Plunder of the Caribbean ; The age of merchant adventures ; Whaling : the first global industry ; To the ends of the Earth for seals ; The great fisheries of Europe ; The first trawling revolution ; The dawn of industrial fishing -- pt. II. The Modern Era of Industrial Fishing: The inexhaustible sea ; The legacy of whaling ; Emptying European seas ; The downfall of king cod ; Slow death of an estuary: Chesapeake Bay ; The collapse of coral ; Shifting baselines ; Ghost habitats ; Hunting on the high plains of the open sea ; Violating the last great wilderness -- pt. III. The Once and Future Ocean: No place left to hide ; Barbequed jellyfish or swordfish steak? ; Reinventing fishery management ; The return of abundance ; The future of fish."Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by 15th century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas."--Jacket.
Subjects: Ocean and civilization.; Ocean;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The new ocean : the fate of life in a changing sea / by Barnard, Bryn,author.(CARDINAL)763585;
Includes bibliographical references."The Earth--our home--is covered mostly with water: the wide, deep, salty, and very blue ocean. It regulates our climate in a way that makes life as we know it possible. This huge ocean is full of an amazing amount of life, most of which is too small to see."--NC1070LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Ocean and civilization.; Ocean;
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The power of the sea : tsunamis, storm surges, rogue waves, and our quest to predict disasters / by Parker, Bruce B.(CARDINAL)526681;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-284) and index.When the sea turns against us : escaping the sea's fury through prediction -- The earliest predictions for the sea : the tide -- The moon, the sun, and the sea : the tide predictions for D-Day -- The sea's greatest killer : predicting storm surges -- Defending our coasts : flooded cities -- Stormy seas : predicting sea, swell, and surf -- "Holes" in the surface of the sea : rogue waves -- The sea;s response to an unpredictable Earth : trying to predict tsunamis -- December 26, 2004 (part 1) : tragic surprise in the Indian Ocean -- December 26, 2004 (part 2) : learning from a tragedy -- Predicting the future-- and saving lives : El Niño, climate change, and the Global Ocean Observing System."Classics from Moby Dick to A Perfect Storm have sought to capture mankind's obsession with the might and the mystery of the sea. And the greatest minds for centuries, including Isaac Newton, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin, have worked to understand and predict when its next act of destruction will occur. The awesome power of the earth's oceans have been at the forefront of everyone's minds in recent years, from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (230,000 dead) to the devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to the unknown consequences of the melting of thousands of glaciers as the Earth's temperature slowly rises. Bruce Parker, former Chief Scientist for the National Ocean Service, brings together the breathtaking history of man's relationship with the sea with the latest scientific breakthroughs to explore in this wide-sweeping, fascinating narrative"--
Subjects: Ocean and civilization.; Ocean.; Ocean;
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The boundless sea : a human history of the oceans / by Abulafia, David,author.(CARDINAL)681454;
Includes bibliographical references and index."David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regionalcommunication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"--
Subjects: Ocean and civilization; Trade routes; Navigation;
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Pacific [large print] : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers / by Winchester, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)124439;
Incudes bibliographical references (pages 659-693).The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.
Subjects: Large print books.; Winchester, Simon; Ocean and civilization.;
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Pacific [sound recording] : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers / by Winchester, Simon.(CARDINAL)124439; Harper Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)539013; Recorded Books, LLC.(CARDINAL)561790;
The great thermonuclear sea -- Mr. Ibuka's radio revolution -- The ecstasies of wave-riding -- A dire and dangerous irritation -- Farewell, all my friends and foes -- Echoes of distant thunder -- How goes the lucky country? -- The fires in the deep -- A fragile and uncertain sea -- Of masters and commanders -- Epilogue: the call of the running tide.Read by Simon Winchester.The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Winchester, Simon; Ocean and civilization.;
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Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers / by Winchester, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)124439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-463) and index.The great thermonuclear sea -- Mr. Ibuka's radio revolution -- The ecstasies of wave-riding -- A dire and dangerous irritation -- Farewell, all my friends and foes -- Echoes of distant thunder -- How goes the lucky country? -- The fires in the deep -- A fragile and uncertain sea -- Of masters and commanders -- Epilogue: the call of the running tide.The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.A colorful and provocative exploration of the modern Pacific Ocean--what it has been, and the grip it holds on our future. Simon Winchester tackles this "oceanic behemoth of eye-watering complexity" by focusing on key moments since 1950 that speak to the greater trends and larger truths about the ocean's significance to us today. He leads us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands in between. He recounts the atomic tests on Bikini, which created a surreal landscape that must still be left vacant. He takes us to the launch of "Gidget" and her surfboards, which would forever change how the world's youth views a rising wave. Pacific also tells the story of the transistor radio and how it sparked the digital revolution, from Japan to Silicon Valley, altering the ocean's destiny. Winchester includes tales of alarming discoveries on the Great Barrier Reef and grand expeditions to mysterious vents on the ocean's floor. He examines the geopolitical shifts that shaped the ocean's vast land areas and addresses the environmental degradation and climate shifts that now threaten this majestic body of water. Along the way, he looks at the political turmoil in Australia, the relationship between the Koreas, and recent confrontations that engaged China and the United States. Calling upon Winchester's many journeys throughout the Pacific and its surrounding areas, his formidable historical understanding, and his singular talent for storytelling, Pacific is a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty and myth that has long captured the imagination.--Adapted from book jacket.
Subjects: Winchester, Simon; Ocean and civilization.;
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Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories / by Winchester, Simon.(CARDINAL)124439;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-477) and index.Preface: The leaving of Liverpool -- Prologue: The beginnings of its goings on -- From the purple isles of Mogador -- All the shoals and deeps within -- Oh! the beauty and the might of it -- Here the sea of pity lies -- They that occupy their business on great waters -- Change and decay all around the sea -- The storm surge carries all before -- Epilogue: Falls the shadow, fades the sea.Kirkus StarredLibrary JournalPublisher's WeeklyBooklist, September 2010Kirkus Starred, August 2010Library Journal, September 2010Publisher's Weekly, September 2010Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by Europe and Africa to the East. This book is a biography of this immense space, of a sea which has defined and determined so much about the lives of the millions who live beside or near its tens of thousands of miles of coast. The Atlantic has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists and warriors, and it continues to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. The author chronicles that relationship, making the Atlantic come vividly alive.--From publisher description.Adult
Subjects: Winchester, Simon; Ocean and civilization.; Civilization.;
Available copies: 36 / Total copies: 38
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