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  • A Sea of Gold

    Thomas Kydd 21

    by Julian Stockwin ...
    Series Book 21 - Thomas Kydd
    'Tension surges through A Sea of Gold . . . In this rousing yarn, Stockwin again raises naval fiction to a new level' - Quarterdeck'Stockwin has surpassed himself with A Sea of Gold . . . a fine, filly favoured vintage yarn' - Warships1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary fr... ... Read more

    6,49 €

  • Into the Raging Sea

    Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

    by Rachel Slade ...
    In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalisation that put the ship in harm’s way.On 1 October 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro ... Read more

    9,21 €

  • Blue Machine

    How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    by Helen Czerski ...
    ***WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATIONFINANCIAL TIMES* 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic**.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water'Blue Machine is quite simply one of the best books I have ever ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • 蔚蓝旖旎的海洋

    by 黄勇、张景丽、崔今淑 ...
    本书在编辑过程中，借鉴并引用了大量的参考文献资料，但由于各种原因，未能与原作者一一联系，在致以万分感谢的同时，谨表深深的歉意。希望作者朋友在见书后及时与我们取得联系，以便敬奉稿酬。 ... Read more

    8,05 €

  • International Law and Ocean Use Management

    The evolution of ocean governance

    by Lawrence Juda ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Maritime Research
    This book places contemporary problems of ocean use management in historical context beginning with the time of Hugo Grotius, whose seminal 1609 work The Freedom of the Seas was the basis of ocean law for the next three centuries.Individual use problems are dealt with in detail and include overfishing, migrating fish stocks and fish wars, oil drilling, deep sea mining and marine pollution. ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • 海洋史研究（第十三辑）

    by 李庆新 ...
    《海洋史研究》史廣東省社會科學院海洋史研究中心創辦的專業學術集刊，是CSSCI來源集刊，自2018年起改為每年出兩輯。每輯收入約20篇文章，設專題筆談、專題論文、學術述評等欄目，每期根據學術界關注的熱點的變化組織專題論文，體現了國內外海洋史研究的學術前沿。本輯是《海洋史研究》（第十三輯，）收錄專題論文18篇及學術述評3篇，涉及古代商品貿易、對考古新發現的研究，與東亞東南亞國家的文化交往、山東與海上絲綢之路等領域，內容豐富、視野寬廣，見解獨到、論證深入、體現了學者良好的學術素養，一定程度上呈現了當前海洋史研究的前沿成果。 ... Read more

    9,55 €

  • Climate and the Oceans

    by Geoffrey K. Vallis ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated primer begins by briefly describing the ... Read more

    29,78 €

  • Sedimentary Basins

    Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget

    by Gerhard Einsele ...
    The modern geological sciences are characterized by extraordinarily rapid progress, as well as by the development and application of numerous new and refined methods,most of them handling an enormous amount of data available from all the continents and oceans. Given this state of affairs, it seams inevitable that many students and professionals tend to become experts in relatively narrow fields ... Read more

    73,45 €

  • A Road Map for Scaling Private Sector Financing for the Blue Economy in Thailand

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Analyzing the importance of Thailand’s blue economy, this report considers ways to mobilize and scale up private sector investment in areas such as aquaculture and marine renewable energy to help bolster sustainable blue development. It explains why factors such as limited awareness of ocean economy opportunities, a lack of investment-ready at-scale projects, and insufficient monitoring are ... Read more

    4,87 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Studies in Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Geochemistry

    Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3)

    Edited by Federico Lucci, Domenico M. Doronzo, Jasper Knight, Anna Travé, Stefan Grab, Amjad Kallel, Sandeep Panda, Helder I. Chaminé, Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Sami Khomsi, Santanu Banerjee, Broder Merkel, Haroun Chenchouni ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is based on the papers accepted for presentation during the 3rd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3). The book is of interest to all researchers in the fields of geomorphology, sedimentology, and geochemistry. Papers in the field of geomorphology deal with topics related to fault slip and incision rates, soil science, landslides and debris flows, coastal ... Read more

    228,00 €

  • Oceanography and Marine Biology

    An annual review. Volume 58

    Edited by S. J. Hawkins, A. L. Allcock, A. E. Bates, L. B. Firth, I. P. Smith, S. Swearer, A. Evans, P. Todd, B. Russell, C. McQuaid ...
    Series series Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Annual Review
    Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent ... Read more

    267,89 €

  • Gorda Ridge

    A Seafloor Spreading Center in the United States’ Exclusive Economic Zone Proceedings of the Gorda Ridge Symposium May 11–13, 1987, Portland, Oregon

    Edited by Gregory R. McMurray ...
    Gorda Ridge presents a primarily technical summary of recent advances in seafloor research related to mineral exploration of the only seafloor spreading center within the United States' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Spreading centers are known to be the locus of hydrothermal activity and to host mineral deposits of hydrothermal origin. The book includes sections on the results of mineral ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Eddies in Marine Science

    Edited by A. R. Robinson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical mid ocean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these meso scale eddies have swirl speeds of order 10 cm s -1 which are usually con siderably greater than the long-term ... Read more

    133,55 €

  • Chemistry and Biology of Solid Waste

    Dredged Material and Mine Tailings

    Edited by Wim Salomons, Ulrich Förstner ...
    Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover. This comprehensive treatise covers both important aspects of their management: In Chemistry and Biology of Solid Waste the principles and assessment are scientifically studied and discussed, while ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Oceanic and Anthropogenic Controls of Life in the Pacific Ocean

    Proceedings of the 2nd Pacific Symposium on Marine Sciences, Nadhodka, Russia, August 11–19, 1988

    Edited by V.I. Ilyichev, V.V. Anikiev ...
    Series Book 21 - GeoJournal Library
    This volume presents a collection of original, multidisciplinary papers written by leading scientists from the various countries of the Pacific rim. The major topics covered are the origins of life in the marine environment; the changing distribution of biological parameters; hydrophysical and hydrochemical processes; and the exploitation of ocean resources and the ensuing consequences.The ... Read more

    133,55 €

  • Designing Wind Turbines

    Engineering and Manufacturing Process in the Industrial Context

    by Uwe Ritschel, Michael Beyer ...
    Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 11
    Designing a wind turbine is an interdisciplinary process that requires an understanding of challenges for all parties involved. The authors deliver an effective and economic way to organize such a design by respecting all the challenges involved. The book provides such insight by utilizing specific examples of existing modern designs. Detailed descriptions and explanations are given for those ... Read more

    76,31 €

  • Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows

    Edited by Jan-Bert Flor ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth’s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves.This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides

    The Natural History of a Long Island Pocket Bay

    by R. Lawrence Swanson, Malcolm J. Bowman ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Examines the ecological and historical significance of the harbor and what it can bring to future residents.Winner of the 2017 Robert Cushman Memorial Award presented by the Three Village Historical SocietyStony Brook Harbor, or Three Sisters Harbor as it was known historically, is perhaps the most pristine of the Long Island north shore pocket bays. Untouched by major commercialization, it has ... Read more

    24,69 €

  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez

    by John Steinbeck ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure. An exhilarating and ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Higher Education and SDG2

    Zero Hunger

    Edited by Karen Cripps, Pariyarath Sangeetha Thondre ...
    Series series Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
    In a post-COVID-19 pandemic era of cost-of-living crises and global displacements of people due to conflicts and climate challenges, food poverty is a growing and ever-pressing issue across both the Global North and the Global South. Presenting a collection of cases drawn from higher education research, teaching and learning, as well as campus and community-based initiatives, Higher Education and ... Read more

    21,72 €

  • The World Beneath

    The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs

    by Richard Smith ...
    *New enhanced edition of the best-selling guide to sea creatures: The World Beneath!*Meet the world's most fascinating sea creatures, see the lives and curiosities of colorful fish and coral reefs. This spectacular volume has more than 300 color photos and extraordinary text from a leading marine biologist and underwater photographer who is the international expert on seahorses.In this richly ... Read more

    18,01 €

  • High-Frequency Radars for the Oceanographer

    Basic Principles

    by Charles-Antoine Guérin ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book presents High-Frequency Radars (HFR), extensively utilized for monitoring ocean surface currents and sea state along coastal regions. It serves as a comprehensive synthesis of essential principles underlying HFR, catering to readers without specialized expertise in any particular aspect. The first part of the book elucidates the principles and techniques necessary for interpreting radar ... Read more

    143,09 €

  • Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry

    by Susan Libes ...
    Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry focuses on the ocean's role in the biogeochemical cycling of selected elements and the impact of humans on the cycling of these elements. Among the topics covered are the chemical composition of seawater from the perspectives of elemental speciation and the impacts of solutes on water's physical behavior; biogeochemical phenomena which control accumulation ... Read more

    56,70 €

  • Oceanography and Marine Biology

    An annual review. Volume 36

    Edited by Alan Ansell, Margaret Barnes, R N Gibson, R. N. Gibson ...
    Series series Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Annual Review
    Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review considers basic areas of marine research, returning to them when appropriate in future volumes, and deals with subjects of special and topical importance in the field of marine biology. The thirty-sixth volume follows closely the objectives and style of the earlier well recieved volumes, conti ... Read more

    359,22 €