NONFICTION
Released: July 17, 2012
"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.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2012
"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.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 24, 2012
"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."
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NONFICTION
Released: April 19, 2012
"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.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Fast-paced and electrifying, Moore's story is "gonzo science" at its best."
Firsthand account of how plastics pervade our oceans in unimaginable ways, killing marine life and causing wide-ranging environmental and health effects.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
"Sale provides much food for thought in this provocative look at a hotly debated subject."
NONFICTION
Released: July 5, 2011
"Solid, fascinating spadework."
A cetologist chronicles her 25 field-season summers studying generations of Atlantic spotted dolphins.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2010
"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.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2009
"A captivating account of the man who turned beachcombing into a science."
Lively as-told-to autobiography of a scientist who studied flotsam--floating trash--and revolutionized the study of the world's oceans.
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