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Investigates colossal ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories; waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a number of ships have vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something was brewing in the planet's waters. They found...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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The oceans have always shaped human lives," writes marine biologist Helen Scales in her vibrant new book The Brilliant Abyss, but the surface and the very edges have so far mattered the most. "However, one way or another, the future ocean is the deep ocean." A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway. Revolutionary studies in the deep are rewriting the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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Introduces the world's oceans and the marine life that lives there, including underwater volcanoes, coral reefs, and surface currents, and provides information on ocean exploration and historic shipwrecks.
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Distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010
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48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Describes marine environments, wildlife, and humans' changing relationship with the oceans, and explores such topics as ocean currents, coral reefs, marine wildlife migrations, and ocean pollution.
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where authors David and Janet Carle make their home. Former park rangers, the authors set out on an around-the-world journey in search...
9) Oceans
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Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2012
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128 p. ; col. ill. ; 19 cm.
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Imagine the oceans as an underwater world with a crew of quirky characters lurking in the depths. This book is your essential guide to the mysterious guys who are waiting to make a splash.
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A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we've learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But, even as our knowledge has exploded, so too has our...
14) Oceans
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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1 Blu-ray (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Explores a variety of creatures living in the Earth's oceans.
15) Oceans
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Creative Education
Pub. Date
2016.
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24 pages cm.
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"A kindergarten-level introduction to oceans, covering their climate, plant and animal life, and such defining features as their salty water"--
16) Ocean life
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Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2008
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1 DVD (ca. 26 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Nye, the Science Guy goes underwater to talk about ocean ecosystems and the importance of small organisms such as coral, kelp and plankton. Amazingly, these latter organisms are the food of huge whales, which gather them by straining thousands of tons of sea water through their mouths.
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Pub. Date
2016
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32 pages cm.
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"Fun pictograms and infographics about the oceans make learning about math topics easy and fun. In this book, readers go on a mission deep underwater and use their mathematical skills while learning about scuba diving and submarines, and exploring life incoral reefs, deep ocean waters, and underwater volcanoes. Math puzzles and exercises help children build confidence in their math skills."--
20) Oceans
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BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
c2009
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3 videodiscs (ca. 489 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From discovering the truth behind rumors that the Mediterranean has become a breeding ground for the Great White to exploring ancient wrecks that tell tales of piracy past and present, the explorer team ventures fearlessly into some of the planet's most challenging environments, providing a vital and timely understanding of our oceans.
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