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Oceanography eBooks

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  • Chains of Command

    The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy

    by Brian Callaci ...
    A surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America’s franchise economy means for its workers.Walk into a McDonald’s anywhere in the United States, and it will be identical to every other McDonald’s in the country. Yet, that particular store is almost certainly owned and operated by an “independent” franchisee. While McDonald’s presents an image of centralized ... Read more

    S$ 25.17 SGD

  • Life Between the Tides

    In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAALFew places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise.How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives of its ... Read more

    S$ 24.62 SGD

  • Submerged

    Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team

    by Daniel Lenihan ...
    Daniel Lenihan's Submerged shares thrilling true stories of underwater expeditions in "a gripping saga of archeological exploration" (#1 New York Times –bestselling author Clive Cussler).Experience a kaleidoscope of real-life underwater missions as revealed by the Founder and Chief of U.S. National Park Service Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU), ranging from ancient ruin... ... Read more

    S$ 15.79 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Underworld

    Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

    by Susan Casey ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets**“An irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral prose." —**Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author of The Soul of an OctopusFor all of human history, ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • The Brilliant Abyss

    True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed

    by Helen Scales ...
    The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. This is the story of our relationship with it – how we imagine, explore and exploit it.For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to gain a greater understanding of how this world of ours ... Read more

    S$ 16.01 SGD

  • The Perfect Storm

    A True Story of Men Against the Sea

    by Sebastian Junger ...
    The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.The ‘perfect storm’ is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island – Sable Island – and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: ... Read more

    S$ 11.43 SGD

  • Unidentified Submerged Objects and Underwater Bases

    by Martin Ettington ...
    There are many books on UFOs and Aliens but most are in the air or over the land.However, you might not be aware that there are also many UFO sightings underwater, or over water.There are even some strong claims of UFO and/or Alien bases underwater.Over 71% of the surface of the Earth is covered in water, much of which is in the Earth's Oceans. So it makes sense that Aliens visiting Earth would ... Read more

    S$ 12.77 SGD

  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

    Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation

    by Geoffrey K. Vallis ...
    Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and oceans, textbooks tend to concentrate on the atmosphere, the ocean, or the theory of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics. The book ... Read more

    S$ 132.64 SGD

  • Developments in Four-Dimensional Geodesy

    Selected papers of the Ron S. Mather Symposium on Four- Dimensional Geodesy, Sydney, Australia, March 28-31, 1989

    Edited by Fritz K. Brunner, Chris Rizos ...
    Series Book 29 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
    This selection of papers emphasizes the advances in the field and covers a wide range of topics in geophysics, geodynamics, and oceanography to which modern geodesy is contributing. ... Read more

    S$ 112.59 SGD

  • Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection

    Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control

    Edited by Tarmo Soomere, Ewald Quak ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The aim of the book is to present for non-specialist researchers as well as for experts a comprehensive overview of the background, key ideas, basic methods, implementation details and a selection of solutions offered by a novel technology for the optimisation of the location of dangerous offshore activities in terms of environmental criteria, as developed in the course of the BalticWay project. ... Read more

    S$ 131.55 SGD

  • Tsunami: To Survive From Tsunami

    by Susumu Murata, Fumihiko Imamura, Tomotsuka Takayama, Kazumasa Katoh, Yoshiaki Kawata, Shigeo Tahashi ...
    Series Book 32 - Advanced Series On Ocean Engineering
    This book provides comprehensive scientific information and knowledge survival tips on how to survive a tsunami. It is especially useful to those living (or about to live) in tsunami-prone areas, and to travelers who may visit such areas. The book is composed of two parts: the first consisting of three chapters on how to survive a tsunami by (i) describing precious lessons obtained from actual ... Read more

    S$ 31.82 SGD

  • A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity

    by Anders Omstedt ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about the ocean and about the future. It is written in two modes, a concerned analytical scientific mode and an intuitive artistic mode in which the ocean is given a voice. The disconnect in the relationship between human dependency on and feelings about the ocean is examined in a dialogue between these two modes. The book illustrates how science and the arts can be connected to ... Read more

    S$ 54.05 SGD

  • ROV ’86: Remotely Operated Vehicles

    Technology Requirements—Present and Future Proceedings of the ROV ’86 Conference organized by the Marine Technology Society, the Society for Underwater Technology and the Association of Offshore Diving Contractors and held in Aberdeen, UK,24—26 June

    by Robert L. Wernli, Roger Chapman ...
    There is now an awareness within the industry, particularly as oil companies direct considerable resources towards developing diverless production systems, that a fully integrated approach to equipment design and intervention is necessary to achieve an acceptable system. The requirement for an integrated approach to equipment design and intervention is applicable not only to diverless depths but ... Read more

    S$ 204.58 SGD

  • A Guide to Southern Temperate Seagrasses

    by Michelle Waycott, Kathryn McMahon, Paul Lavery ...
    A Guide to Southern Temperate Seagrasses describes the exceptionally diverse seagrasses in the temperate parts of the southern hemisphere. This book introduces readers to the evolution, biology and ecology of the southern temperate seagrasses and presents a visual key to allow species identification using easily recognisable features. Detailed information is presented summarising the distinctive ... Read more

    S$ 30.07 SGD

  • Environmental History of Oceanic Islands

    Natural and Human Impacts on the Vegetation of the Juan Fernández (Robinson Crusoe) Archipelago

    by Tod F. Stuessy ...
    The Juan Fernández Archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile at 33° S latitude. Robinson Crusoe Island is 667 km from the continent and approximately four million years old; Alejandro Selkirk Island is an additional 181 km west and only one million years old. The natural impacts of subsidence and erosion have shaped the landscapes of these islands, resulting in progressive changes ... Read more

    S$ 204.58 SGD

  • Recent Trends in Marine Toxicological Assessment

    Edited by Ong Meng Chuan, Naima Hamid, Adiana Ghazali ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Marine pollution is an escalating global concern, with growing awareness of its severe impact on the world’s oceans. Rapid industrialization and intensified human activities have significantly elevated pollution levels, posing a serious threat to marine ecosystems and biodiversity. This book addresses these critical environmental issues by focusing on advanced methodologies for detecting and ... Read more

    S$ 277.72 SGD

  • Bioluminescent Marine Plankton

    by Ramasamy Santhanam ...
    Bioluminescence, the cold living light or the cold fire of the sea is extremely common in all oceans at all depths. However, this phenomenon is nearly absent in freshwater, with the exception of a freshwater limpet. More than 75% of deep-sea creatures have been reported to produce their own light. The luminescent marine plankton such as dinoflagellate, radiolarians, jellyfish, comb jellies, ... Read more

    S$ 54.38 SGD

  • Ocean Acoustics

    by Anatoly Kistovich, Konstantin Pokazeev, Tatiana Chaplina ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of hydroacoustics and describes the physical basis of acoustic processes observed in the sea. In addition, it discusses the basic concepts and provides simplified models of sound propagation and acoustic phenomena at the boundary between environments. Lastly, the book examines in detail a number of applications of ocean acoustics and methods.The ocean is ... Read more

    S$ 175.37 SGD

  • Stochastic Analysis of Scaling Time Series

    From Turbulence Theory to Applications

    by François G. Schmitt, Yongxiang Huang ...
    Multi-scale systems, involving complex interacting processes that occur over a range of temporal and spatial scales, are present in a broad range of disciplines. Several methodologies exist to retrieve this multi-scale information from a given time series; however, each method has its own limitations. This book presents the mathematical theory behind the stochastic analysis of scaling time series, ... Read more

    S$ 106.37 SGD

  • The Big Book Of Sea Monsters (Scary Looking Sea Animals)

    Animal Encyclopedia for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Fish & Marine Life Books
    They may be scary-looking but they definitely have important functions in securing the biodiversity of marine life. Learn about these sea monsters by ÒmeetingÓ them face-to-face. The use of picture books in introducing sea monsters will help you slowly accept them and not be feel scared towards them. Picture books work by capturing the attention to help you remember facts better. Buy a copy now! ... Read more

    S$ 6.31 SGD

  • Coasts and Estuaries

    Management and Engineering

    by V Sundar, S A Sannasiraj, K Murali ...
    Series Book 57 - Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering
    Coastlines, like many things around us, are constantly evolving. Keeping pace with the changes and their development is necessary to ensure their stability and to maintain eco-equilibrium for nearshore hydrodynamics and morphodynamics. Supported with field measurements for model validation, several numerical and analytical tools are available to us to understand the physical processes in the ... Read more

    S$ 117.93 SGD

  • Foundations for Innovative Application of Airborne Radars

    Measuring the Water Surface Backscattering Signature and Wind

    by Alexey Nekrasov ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The ‘wind vector’ – wind speed and direction – is a main meteorological quantity and relevant for air-sea exchange processes. This book explores the use of several airborne microwave instruments, some of which are part of standard aircraft equipment, in determining the local wind vector over water. This is worthwhile as local wind information is usually only available at measurements sites like ... Read more

    S$ 80.43 SGD

  • Climate Change and Ocean Governance

    Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas

    Edited by Paul G. Harris ...
    Climate Change and Ocean Governance brings together authors from political science and cognate disciplines to examine the political and policy dimensions of climate change for our oceans. The environmental, social and economic consequences of oceanic change present tremendous challenges for governments and other actors. New and innovative policies for governing oceans and seas - and for managing ... Read more

    S$ 229.76 SGD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management

    Edited by Hance D. Smith, Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Tundi S. Agardy ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes. The underlying approach is geographical, with prominence given to the biosphere, political ... Read more

    S$ 125.41 SGD