Author : Frank Gibney
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Nature
ISBN :
"The world ocean has always played a major role in the history of mankind. It is a vital source of food and natural resources. It influences weather conditions. It has also dictated much of the political geography and commerce of the modern world. From seafaring to supertankers, tidal waves to whaling, The Ocean explores every aspect of ocean life -- its wealth and mystery, its past and future -- and shows how it continues to affect our lives today." -- Back cover
Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795325096
A man discovers the planet’s destiny in the ocean’s depths in this near-future novel by one of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction authors. In the very near future, humanity has fully harnessed the sea’s immense potential, employing advanced sonar technology to control and harvest untold resources for human consumption. It is a world where gigantic whale herds are tended by submariners and vast plankton farms stave off the threat of hunger. Former space engineer Walter Franklin has been assigned to a submarine patrol. Initially indifferent to his new station, if not bored by his daily routines, Walter soon becomes fascinated by the sea’s mysteries. The more his explorations deepen, the more he comes to understand man’s true place in nature—and the unique role he will soon play in humanity’s future. A lasting testament to Arthur C. Clarke’s prescient and powerful imagination, The Deep Range is a classic work of science fiction that remains deeply relevant to our times.
Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0451492951
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Author : Karl S. Guthke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501745875
The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life has been a subject of debate since the dawn of recorded history. The Last Frontier, originally published in German in 1983 and now available in Helen Atkins's sensitive English translation, traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the seventeenth to the twentieth century and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition.
Author : United States. Antarctic Projects Office
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Antarctica
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher :
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release :
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ISBN :
Author : Elsie M. Laughlin
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Gordon Linden
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2016-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1329778707
Guidebooks from major International Expositions held between 1929 (Barcelona, Seville) and today (2015, Milan), are interesting records of the entertaining and educational temporary worlds created at these events in various cities throughout the world. Published as ephemeral items to be purchased by fairgoers, copies occasionally turn up at flea markets, in antiquarian bookstores, and on internet bookstore sites. This collection of images from the various events, along with a description of the contents of the books, is sure to appeal to memorabilia collectors as well as those seeking to learn more about the history of Expos and World's Fairs.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Biology
ISBN :
Author : Juergen Claus
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000818691
This book by artist, diver, and editor-in-chief of an underwater magazine Jürgen Claus is a milestone among the books dedicated to the planet sea. It is a knowledge-rich overview, created from facts and experiences, of three main themes that have never been described in context. Marine architectures from both the Pacific and Atlantic regions have now moved from vision to reality. Whether it is a sail-shaped architecture in Nouméa or a whale-shaped one in the Arctic region. Special attention is paid by Prof. Claus to post-disaster architecture. The book will encourage young readers to design metabolic buildings themselves. That the seascape has also become a fluid studio for visual artists may come as a surprise. The works of art, some of which the author has experienced first-hand, have intertwined with an ecological, sustainable way of working. And this is also true to a special degree for the sound artists. They realize their sonic worlds with recordings from the sounding world underwater, a concert hall of hitherto unknown dimensions. The author’s experience as a professor of media art with students flows into the description of multimedia or media-related ocean installations. Here the book becomes a stimulus for realizing one’s own experiences.
