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Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

10 best books like Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean (Lisa-Ann Gershwin): The Tulip, Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals, Song for the Blue Ocean, Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets, Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease, Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate, The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

The Tulip
AuthorAnna Pavord
ISBN0747571902
The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the study of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into the world-wide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals,...
Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
AuthorSharon Levy
ISBN0195370120
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas,...
Song for the Blue Ocean
AuthorCarl Safina
ISBN0805061223
This incredible book is a searing look at humanity's attitude towards the formerly inexhaustible sea, and I will never be the same after reading it. Parts made me cry hard enough I got a headache. More than once I thought suicide might be a reasonable alternative to using up more of our resources.

I...
Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets
AuthorPeter Laufer
ISBN1599219263
In this book, author Peter Laufer investigates the breeding and keeping of exotic pets, the problems with doing so, and legislation to prevent people from owning these animals.

He focuses primarily on great apes (chimpanzees and monkeys), big cats (mostly lions and tigers, but also briefly...
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
AuthorJuliet Eilperin
ISBN0375425128
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species...
Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
AuthorRafe Sagarin
ISBN0465021832
Despite the billions of dollars we’ve poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport...
Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
AuthorJennifer A. Mather
ISBN1604690674
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends—from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula...
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
AuthorCallum Roberts
A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads...
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
AuthorAlan Burdick
ISBN0374219737
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction that asks: what is natural?
Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes from Australia hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing...
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
AuthorRobert Kunzig
ISBN0393320634
The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do not really understand how. The sea is still the frontier,...
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
AuthorClaire Nouvian
ISBN0226595668
On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters—the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where...
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
AuthorSylvia A. Earle
ISBN0449910652
Sylvia is an inspiring woman and has had some amazing experiences!! It makes me sad to know that things were already looking bad when this book was published and it’s only gotten worse. But her message is still one of striving to do what we can, whether as an individual or as a group, to protect or restore...
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
AuthorHelen Scales
ISBN1472911369
Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Members of the phylum Mollusca are among the most ancient animals on the planet. Their shells provide homes for other animals, and across...
Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life
AuthorSusan Middleton
ISBN1419710079
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...
The Extreme Life of the Sea
AuthorStephen R. Palumbi
ISBN1400849934
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world--the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrothermal...
Monsters of the Sea
AuthorRichard Ellis
ISBN1592289673

"Monsters of the Sea" is for those with a great curiosity about the mysterious creatures that lurk beneath the surface of the sea that humans have sometimes been granted glimpses of.

For as long as we've been curious, our access to the oceans' mysteries have and still remain so limited that...
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
AuthorCharles Clover
Gourmands and health-conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all-time high. Packed with nutrients and naturally low in fat, fish is the last animal we can still eat in good conscience. Or can we?

In this vivid, eye-opening...
The Human, the Orchid and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
AuthorJacques-Yves Cousteau
ISBN1596914173
Part adventure story, part manifesto, the legendary ocean explorer's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth.

Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the...
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Mans Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science
AuthorCurtis Ebbesmeyer
ISBN0061558419
“Ebbesmeyer’s goal is noble and fresh: to show how the flow of ocean debris around the world reveals ‘the music’ of the world’s oceans.”

—New York Times Book Review

 

Through the fascinating stories of flotsam, one of the Earth’s greatest secrets is revealed....
Sea Sick
AuthorAlanna Mitchell
ISBN1741962307
All life — whether on land or in the sea — depends on the oceans for two things:

• Oxygen. Most of Earth’s oxygen is produced by phytoplankton in the sea. These humble, one-celled organisms, rather than the spectacular rain forests, are the true lungs of the planet.

• Climate...
Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals
AuthorRichard Conniff
ISBN0393068935
An award-winning nature writer takes us on a thrilling journey deep into the domains of strange—and often dangerous—animals.

Field journalist Richard Conniff examines the lives of two-, four-, six-, and eight-legged creatures from around the globe, providing adventure-packed...
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