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Tag Archives: oceanography
Garbology
Garbology :Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash© 2012 Edward Humes288 pages Readers who are passionate about garbage — a description which includes sanitation workers, victims of SimCity, and ecologists, I assume — will find no shortage of books on the … Continue reading
The Deep: Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
The Deep: the Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss253 pages© 2007 Claire Nouvian I’ve been enjoying a gallery book devoted to the extraordinary creatures of the deep sea these past two weeks. Edited by Claire Nouvian, The Deep collects some of … Continue reading
The Oceans
The Oceans© 2000 Ellen J. Prager with Sylvia A. Earle314 pages Seventy percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, constituting a vast and largely unknown world of its own — vitally important to ours, but scarcely explored and … Continue reading
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Earth Science Made Simple
Earth Science Made Simple© 2004 Edward F. Albin224 pages Earth science! Fun! I enjoy reading these little guides as introductions to a subject or refreshers on it, and Earth Science Made Simple fits the bill. Four separate sections cover Geology, Oceanography, Meteorology, and Planetary … Continue reading