From above and below: man and the sea.
Thames and Hudson, 2013. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Thames and Hudson, 2013. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. The past one hundred years of ocean science have been distinguished by dramatic milestones, remarkable discoveries, and major revelations. This book is a clear and lively survey of many of these amazing findings. Beginning..... More
Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. WAS $65. The Census of Marine Life was launched in the year 2000 with the goal of producing the first-ever ocean census by 2010. Two thousand scientists from 82 nations agreed to the mandate to answer three important..... More
Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, (1979. reprint). Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in laminated boards. Presents an overview of what we know about the natural history, biology, and ecology of whales in the broad context of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems. The volume encompasses multiple points of view to consider..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed habitats are absent of light. This strange and fascinating world of complete darkness is not a solitary place-it is inhabited by millions of life forms..... More
Rome: White Star, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The Red Sea is a wonderfully fertile marine paradise set in an extraordinary arid landscape. The flora and fauna on the sea bed are rich and varied, the greatest attraction being the coral formations, the brightly coloured tropical fish..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A state-of-the-art photographic field guide to the world's oceanic birds. Oceanic birds are among the most remarkable but least known of all birds, living at sea, far from the sight of most people. They offer unusual identification challenges with many..... More
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 2001. Octavo, laminated boards, maps. This monograph on marine biodiversity is a result of 132 experts comprehensively and systematically researching and compiling the species recorded in China's seas in the last 70 years. From bacteria to mammals, over 20,000 species were verified. Each species entry includes..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Octavo, black and white photographs, text illustrations, laminated boards. The hadal zone represents one of the last great frontiers in marine science, accounting for 45% of the total ocean depth range. Despite very little research effort since the 1950s, the last ten years has seen..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, photographs, diagrams, maps. Remaining largely unexplored, the deep oceans and global seafloor are truly Earth's last frontier, yet are critical to our survival on this planet. This magnificent, full-colour volume transports you to bizarre landscapes hosting exotic life forms that rival the most..... More
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007. Small quarto, colour photographs, black and white photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This title is written by one of the world's leading deep-sea ecologists. It presents a comprehensive and highly readable natural history of the world's deep seas, from the pitch black..... More
Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2010. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2014. second edition). Octavo, laminated boards, photographs, illustrations, maps. Fully updated to include significant advances in satellite oceanography and results from new satellite missions, the second edition of this popular textbook introduces students to how remote sensing works, how to understand observations from Earth-observing systems, and..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2010. Octavo, oblong format, laminated boards, colour photographs. Author Elisabeth Roman presents the natural world's wonders and records in a new, original format, beginning each story with a question (like, Whose heart beats the fastest? Does the snail really have millions of teeth?) and then..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. The book features articles that investigate the origins of the world's oceans, the diversity of life in the water, the state of global fisheries, the dangers of natural disasters, and the perils oceans face, whether induced by nature..... More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. Featuring 500 fantastic colour photographs, this work captures the beauty of marine life found in the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. WAS $50. The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface, greater than all of the planet's landmasses combined. It contains half..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line drawings. Pioneered in the late 1980s, the concept of macroecology - a framework for studying ecological communities with a focus on patterns and processes - revolutionized the field. Although this approach has been applied mainly to terrestrial..... More