Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. Global environmental change (including climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive exploitation of natural resources) is having significant impacts on the world's oceans. This book advances knowledge of the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems, and..... 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
Chatswood: New Holland Publishers, 2015. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. This collection of stunning images is a showcase for the work of the world's greatest underwater wildlife photographers. It includes beautifully composed and rarely seen images illustrating the full diversity of marine life, from mighty whales and graceful turtles through to..... More
Rome: White Star, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $80. 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, and..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, graphs, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist # 131. Shallow seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities. The margins..... More
Firefly Books, 2008. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. A visual guide to oceans, their formation and extent, the life-forms they support, their value to humans, and the threats they face. 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
Scoresby: Five Mile Press, 2009. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book is both a celebration of the ocean and an urgent call for conservation. More
Frankfurt: Ikan- Unterwasserarchiv, 2009. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. This book includes thousands of photographs of selected groups of marine invertebrates. The primary aim is to assist people who have a keen interest in the small animals they encounter in the sea other than fishes. Presented here are the species..... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2005. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $140. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are a remarkable ecosystem that supports a vast array of plants and animals that have evolved in this habitat over millions of years, many existing nowhere else on the planet. With more than 300..... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1883. second edition), Octavo, maps, bookplate, a fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
Washington: Conservation International, 2002. Quarto, softcover. The Raja Ampat islands are another example of a highly diverse coral ecosystem under threat. Such regions stand out not only because of their species richness, endemism, and habitat level diversity, but also because of their relatively pristine condition. Yet portions of these coral..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2014. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something seemingly miraculous: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. This book will help you to easily identify and learn about the life cycles and anatomy of the species likely to be encountered along Britain's coastline. Useful sections provide details on the tidal cycle, how to read tide tables, where to look..... More
Sydney: Reader's Digest, (1990. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, lacks dustwrapper. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Octavo, colour photographs, graphs, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Frigid, dark, and energy-deprived, the deep sea was long considered hostile to life. However, new sampling technologies and intense international research efforts in recent decades have revealed a remarkably rich fauna and an astonishing..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2000. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, this informative book tells how oceanography developed as a science and summarizes what is known about the organisms that live in the deep ocean. Describing underwater mountains and plains as well as the major currents..... More
New York: Norton, [1987. first edition). Octavo, Owner's stamp, dustwrapper slightly worn, otherwise a good copy in dustwrapper. More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2006. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. WAS $90. 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
London: Butterworths, 1981. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. 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
London: New Holland, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. Visitors to the North Sea are astonished at the profusion of marine life that exists in this relatively small, box-shaped sea that is bounded by Britain to the west and the shores of northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway..... More
London: New Holland Publishers, (2011. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings, map. This is a new and updated edition of this popular title. This guide reveals the fascinating wealth of sea life found in this diverse, but little-documented region. This compact and easy-to-follow guidebook, illustrated with many specially-commissioned..... More