The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
10 best books like The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea (Callum Roberts): With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird, Song for the Blue Ocean, Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply, Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves, Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters, American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
| Author | Fred Pearce |
| ISBN | 0807085766 |
Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing with abrupt change resulting from triggering hidden tipping...
Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life—growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick environment: the beautiful, dangerous, and now incredibly...
| Author | Tim Birkhead |
| ISBN | 0802779662 |
Most people would love to be able to fly like a bird, but few of us are aware of the other sensations that make being a bird a gloriously unique experience. What is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? How do desert birds detect rain hundreds of kilometers...
| Author | Carl Safina |
| ISBN | 0805061223 |
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...
| Author | Juliet Eilperin |
| ISBN | 0375425128 |
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...
| Author | Michael Schacker |
| ISBN | 1599214326 |
When I picked up this book, I expected to find out some strange unknown environmental factor that was killing off the bees. What I found was that the news media sources have not been doing their homework, some universities and governments have just been pointing their fingers in the wrong directions,...
| Author | Menno Schilthuizen |
| ISBN | 0670785911 |
The story of evolution as you’ve never heard it before
What’s the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell...
| Author | Robert Kunzig |
| ISBN | 0393320634 |
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,...
| Author | Bruce Parker |
| ISBN | 0230112242 |
The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury against us. In a wide-sweeping narrative spanning much of human history, Bruce Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves...
| Author | Eric Rutkow |
| ISBN | 1439193541 |
In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature, this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation’s history.
This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells...
| Author | Richard Ellis |
| ISBN | 0307267156 |
The author of The Book of Sharks, Imagining Atlantis, and Encyclopedia of the Sea turns his gaze to the tuna—one of the biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals and the source of some of the world’s most popular delicacies—now hovering on the brink of extinction. In recent years,...
| Author | Sylvia A. Earle |
| ISBN | 0449910652 |
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...
| Author | Robert Dinwiddie |
| ISBN | 0756622050 |
As the site where life first formed on Earth, a key element of the climate, and a continuing but fragile resource, oceans are of vital importance to our planet. From the geological and physical processes that affect the ocean floor to the key habitat zones, flora, and fauna, this is the definitive reference...
| Author | Stephen R. Palumbi |
| ISBN | 1400849934 |
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...
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...
| Author | Curtis Ebbesmeyer |
| ISBN | 0061558419 |
“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....
| Author | Hugh Aldersey-Williams |
| ISBN | 0393354806 |
Half of the world’s population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery to almost all of us. In The Tide, celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together centuries of scientific thinking with the literature...
| Author | Oliver Morton |
| ISBN | 0007163649 |
A story of a world in crisis and the importance of plants, the history of the earth, and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists—this is not your fourth-grade science class's take on photosynthesis.
From acclaimed science journalist Oliver Morton comes this fascinating, lively,...
| Author | David MacNeal |
| ISBN | 1250095506 |
Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs--there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an off-beat scientific journey that weaves together history,...
| Author | William Bryant Logan |
| ISBN | 0393327787 |
Professional arborist and award-winning nature writer William Bryant Logan deftly relates the delightful history of the reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees since time immemorial—a profound link that has almost been forgotten. From the ink of Bach’s cantatas, to the first...
| Author | Anthony J. Martin |
| ISBN | 1681773120 |
Humans have “gone underground” for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War–era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on earth. Without burrowing, the planet would be very different today. Many animal lineages alive...
