Sylvia A Earle
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Language
English
Description
" ... [L]egendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a global ecosystem on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis unless we act immediately. A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how the past 50 years of destructive--and ever accelerating--oceanic change threaten the very existence of life on Earth."--Back cover.
3) Sea critters
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines a variety of animals found in the sea, including jellyfish, worms, scallops, and squids.
4) Hello, fish
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An underwater explorer takes a tour of the ocean and introduces such fish as the damselfish, red lipped batfish, and brown goby.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author relates some of her adventures studying and exploring the world's oceans, including tracking whales, living in an underwater laboratory, and helping to design a deep water submarine.
7) Coral reefs
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief introduction to coral reefs, including where they are found, how they grow, what lives in them, their importance, and efforts being made to protect and restore them.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
This lyrical ode to the ocean marries the insights and inspiration of ocean advocate Sylvia Earle, and other experts and celebrities, with the world's most stunning photographs of beaches, coral reefs, and underwater life. All combine to express Earle's passionate message: Life depends on the ocean, and to save it we must love it. In seven essays, she recounts the milestones of a life spent pioneering and protecting the ocean. Supporting facts and...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
517 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"A summary by famed marine biologist Sylvia Earle of the latest insights about the present state of the ocean and a look at how its future and that of humankind are inextricably bound"--
14) The oceans
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xix, 314 p., [16] p. of col. plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
254 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
In Spineless, acclaimed photographer Susan Middleton explores the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, which represent more than 98 percent of the known animal species in the ocean. They are also astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures, and colors--in nature's fashion show, they are the haute couture of marine life. This collection of more than 250 remarkable images is the result of seven years of painstaking...
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Delve into the fascinating history, science, culture, and wildlife of Antarctica and the Arctic -- and learn to photograph them like a pro -- in this educational adventure from National Geographic and The Great Courses.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the eighth continent! As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn't monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees. Forty years later, Lowman remains one of the world's foremost arbornauts,...
