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Oceans

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NONFICTION
Released: July 17, 2012
SOUNDINGS: THE STORY OF THE REMARKABLE WOMAN WHO MAPPED THE OCEAN FLOOR
by Hali Felt
"A well-researched, engaging account of an important scientific discovery that should also find a place on women's-studies shelves."
A complex, rich biography of a groundbreaking geologist who discovered "a rift valley running down the center of the Atlantic," essentially transforming 20th-century geophysics despite "mid-century American gender bias" and scientific rivalries. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 24, 2012
THE OCEAN OF LIFE: THE FATE OF MAN AND THE SEA
by Callum Roberts
"A timely wake-up call."
Roberts (Marine Conservation/Univ. of York; The Unnatural History of the Sea, 2009) warns that "the oceans have changed more in [the] last thirty years than in all of human history before." Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: April 19, 2012
GARBOLOGY: OUR DIRTY LOVE AFFAIR WITH TRASH
by Edward Humes
"An important addition to the environmentalist bookshelf."
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Humes (Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution, 2011, etc.) examines how wastefulness is built into the American way of life. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2012
IN PURSUIT OF GIANTS: ONE MAN'S GLOBAL SEARCH FOR THE LAST OF THE GREAT FISH
by Matt Rigney
"A dramatic account that will appeal to the sportsman and conservationist alike."
A sport fisherman's search for his game provides the backdrop to this exploration of the damage to the ocean's fish and animal stocks caused by large-scale commercial fishing operations. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2010
DEEP BLUE HOME: AN INTIMATE ECOLOGY OF OUR WILD OCEAN
by Julia Whitty
"A lovely, soft-spoken book about the "joy, inspiration, wonder, laughter, ideas" that come from relating to Earth's "nonhuman world.""
Mother Jones correspondent Whitty (The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific, 2007, etc.) looks at the life of the oceans and the sea creatures she has observed over the past 30 years. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
OUR DYING PLANET: AN ECOLOGIST'S VIEW OF THE CRISIS WE FACE
by Peter F. Sale
"Sale provides much food for thought in this provocative look at a hotly debated subject."
A marine biologist warns that at "our ecological bank account is in overdraft." Read full book review >