The Whale In The Living Room
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The Whale In The Living Room
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Author : John Ruthven
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-06-17
The Whale In The Living Room written by John Ruthven and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with Nature categories.
The Whale in the Living Room follows the thrilling adventures of film-maker, John Ruthven, as he travels the globe, dives into our oceans and passionately recounts his life-affirming experiences. What creatures could remain undiscovered in the 95 per cent of the seas that have not been thoroughly explored? How vast, really, are our oceans? The surface of Mars and Venus are better known to us than Earth's seabed. Yet to map the world's ocean to even 100-metre blocks of accuracy, something that environmentalists say is essential for its protection, could take another 300 years. Even creatures that are known to us, like the giant squid, have proved too difficult to accurately capture on film. Quite literally immersed in his subject, John can help readers understand the magnitude of our planet's oceans and why it is so important for us to protect our seas and the creatures that inhabit them. He is the only producer to have worked full-time on both series of Blue Planet, as well as nearly fifty other films about the sea. Through his first-hand experience, John shows us the loneliness of whale calves in the deep blue, the fear of seals as they dodge great white sharks near the coast, or the curiosity of octopus staring back at us through the camera. His book takes us through the blue rings of South Pacific coral atolls, on submarine rides into the abyss with ancient life forms, and up close and personal encounters with singing humpback whales that make you feel the water around you. The Whale in the Living Room, like the proverbial 'elephant in the room', is also about how, until recently, we have been largely blind to our polluting of the seas. John, for example, explores how plastic 'went wild' in the ocean; tries to understand how we got into this mess; and see if we can ever untangle the oceans from its grip.
The Whale And The Supercomputer
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Author : Charles Wohlforth
language : en
Publisher: North Point Press
Release Date : 2005-05-04
The Whale And The Supercomputer written by Charles Wohlforth and has been published by North Point Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-04 with Nature categories.
In The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardest A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska--their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea--as ice that should be solid this time of year gives way. Elsewhere, a team of scientists transverses the tundra, sleeping in tents, surviving on frozen chocolate, and measuring the snow every ten kilometers in a quest to understand the effects of albedo, the snow's reflective ability to cool the earth beneath it. Climate change isn't an abstraction in the far North. It is a reality that has already dramatically altered daily life, especially that of the native peoples who still live largely off the land and sea. Because nature shows her footprints so plainly here, the region is also a lure for scientists intent on comprehending the complexities of climate change. In this gripping account, Charles Wohlforth follows the two groups as they navigate a radically shifting landscape. The scientists attempt to decipher its smallest elements and to derive from them a set of abstract laws and models. The natives draw on uncannily accurate traditional knowledge, borne of long experience living close to the land. Even as they see the same things-a Native elder watches weather coming through too fast to predict; a climatologist notes an increased frequency of cyclonic systems-the two cultures struggle to reconcile their vastly different ways of comprehending the environment. With grace, clarity, and a sense of adventure, Wohlforth--a lifelong Alaskan--illuminates both ways of seeing a world in flux, and in the process, helps us to navigate a way forward as climate change reaches us all.
Ballou S Pictorial Drawing Room Companion
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Author : Maturia Murray Ballou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
Ballou S Pictorial Drawing Room Companion written by Maturia Murray Ballou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with American literature categories.
The Living Age
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
The Living Age written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with categories.
Neptune S Garden Or The Sea In The Drawing Room
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Author : Charles Strange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
Neptune S Garden Or The Sea In The Drawing Room written by Charles Strange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with categories.
Eye Of The Whale
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Author : Dick Russell
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001
Eye Of The Whale written by Dick Russell and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Gray whale categories.
"Eye of the Whale focuses on one great whale in particularthe coastal-traveling California gray whale. Gray whales make the longest migration of any mammal - from the lagoons of Baja California to the feeding grounds of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia (nearly 6,000 miles). That the gray whale exists today is nothing short of miraculous. Whaling fleets twice massacred the species to near extinction - first during the nineteenth century and again during the early part of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
War Of The Whales
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Author : Joshua Horwitz
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-07-21
War Of The Whales written by Joshua Horwitz and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-21 with History categories.
Joel Reynolds, a crusading attorney, and Ken Balcomb, a marine biologist, teamed up to expose the truth behind a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound and drives whales onto beaches.
Ecotherapy
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Author : Linda Buzzell
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2010-07-01
Ecotherapy written by Linda Buzzell and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Nature categories.
In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner's groundbreaking anthology, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, the editors of this new volume have often been asked: Where can I find out more about the psyche–world connection? How can I do hands–on work in this area? Ecotherapy was compiled to answer these and other urgent questions. Ecotherapy, or applied ecopsychology, encompasses a broad range of nature–based methods of psychological healing, grounded in the crucial fact that people are inseparable from the rest of nature and nurtured by healthy interaction with the Earth. Leaders in the field, including Robert Greenway, and Mary Watkins, contribute essays that take into account the latest scientific understandings and the deepest indigenous wisdom. Other key thinkers, from Bill McKibben to Richard Louv to Joanna Macy, explore the links among ecotherapy, spiritual development, and restoring community. As mental–health professionals find themselves challenged to provide hard evidence that their practices actually work, and as costs for traditional modes of psychotherapy rise rapidly out of sight, this book offers practitioners and interested lay readers alike a spectrum of safe, effective alternative approaches backed by a growing body of research.
The Judith Files
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Author : Judge Bill Swann
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2021-12-27
The Judith Files written by Judge Bill Swann and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-27 with Fiction categories.
Judith clerked for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, practiced for ten years, and then was named to a judgeship with a domestic relations docket. The problems began almost immediately, with her home being shot up. And then things got worse.
Littell S Living Age
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Littell S Living Age written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with American periodicals categories.