The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
ISBN: 9781610911900 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even residents on this idyllic California coast may not realize its full history. Monterey began as a natural paradise, but became the poster child for industrial devastation in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and is now one of the most celebrated shorelines in the world. It is a remarkable story of life, death, and revival--told here for the first time in all its stunning color and bleak grays. The Death and Life of Monterey Bay begins in the...
Anyone who has ever stood on the shores of Monterey Bay, watching the rolling ocean waves and frolicking otters, knows it is a unique place. But even ...
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98,29 zł |
Marine Conservation & Marine Ecoregions
ISBN: 9781530584901 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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157,01 zł |
Getting Food from Water: A Guide to Backyard Aquaculture
ISBN: 9781626545984 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,42 zł |
Getting Food from Water: A Guide to Backyard Aquaculture
ISBN: 9781626545991 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,92 zł |
Penguin Coloring Book For Adults: Penguin Coloring Book containing Penguins filled with intricate and stress relieving patterns
ISBN: 9781532714429 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,09 zł |
Maritime History and Identity : The Sea and Culture in the Modern World
ISBN: 9781780763293 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sea and its relation to human life has always been a subject of fascination for historians. For the first time, this book looks at the field of Maritime History through the prism of identity, looking at how the sea has influenced the formation of identity at a national, local and individual level from the early modern age to the present.
It looks at a variety of people who interacted with the sea in different ways - from merchant sailors to naval officers and, on land, from dockworkers to the civilians who participated in the sea-based festivals in the Mediterranean port city of... The sea and its relation to human life has always been a subject of fascination for historians. For the first time, this book looks at the field of Ma...
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674,31 zł |
The Great Barrier Reef : An Environmental History
ISBN: 9780415824392 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef system. Designated a World Heritage Site, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research. It documents and explains the main changes in the environments and ecosystems of the reef, with a particular focus on the period since European settlement....
The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef system. Designated a World...
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752,12 zł |
Canaveral National Seashore: Historic Resource Study
ISBN: 9781490418865 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 57,661 acres of Canaveral National Seashore (the Seashore) are located on the Atlantic coast of Florida approximately 25 miles south of Daytona Beach and a bit more than 50 miles east of Orlando. Canaveral National Seashore was authorized by the 93rd Congress in the Act of January 3, 1975 (P.L. 93-626).
The 57,661 acres of Canaveral National Seashore (the Seashore) are located on the Atlantic coast of Florida approximately 25 miles south of Daytona Be...
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71,75 zł |
Canaveral National Seashore: Baseline Water Quality Data Inventory and Analysis
ISBN: 9781491088180 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This document presents the results of surface-water-quality data retrievals for Canaveral National Seashore (CANA) from six of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) national databases: (1) Storage and Retrieval (STORET) water quality database management system; (2) River Reach File (RF3); (3) Industrial Facilities Discharge (IFD); (4) Drinking Water Supplies (DRINKS); (5) Water Gages (GAGES); and (6) Water Impoundments (DAMS). This document is one product resulting from a cooperative contractual endeavor between the National Park Service's Servicewide Inventory and...
This document presents the results of surface-water-quality data retrievals for Canaveral National Seashore (CANA) from six of the United States Envir...
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89,70 zł |
Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez
ISBN: 9781250050311 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE When biologists Aaron Hirsh and Veronica Volny lead twelve college students to a remote fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, they encounter a bay of dazzling beauty and richness. But as the group begins its investigations--conducting ecological and evolutionary studies of the area and its natural inhabitants; listening to the stories of local villagers; and examining the journals of... WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE |
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94,02 zł |
I live in a lovely village!
ISBN: 9781495471414 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I live in a lovely village With trees, mountains, lakes and rivers ... A wondrous paradise ... Where everyone is treated equally ... Where no one is harassed ... Where the law applies to everyone ... Except this guy
I live in a lovely village With trees, mountains, lakes and rivers ... A wondrous paradise ... Where everyone is treated equally ... Where no one is ...
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Creation of Glacier Bay Oceanographic Information Products Defined in Protocol OC-2010.1 Using Legacy Data Covering 1993 through 2008: Methods, Qualit
ISBN: 9781492701613 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network (SEAN) embarked on a project in summer 2010 to build the detailed physical oceanography information products specified in its formal protocol OC-2010.1 based on historic legacy data collected by USGS in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The intention was to make a consistent and comparable data set covering 1993 through the present. The project completed successfully and these products are accessible at http: //science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sean/OC_Main.aspx (accessed on 29 October 2010). This paper documents the methods used to...
The Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network (SEAN) embarked on a project in summer 2010 to build the detailed physical oceanography informat...
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2009 NPS Ocean and Coastal Park Workshop Results and Proceedings: Establishing a Community of Practice, Formulating Guidance and Charting a Course for
ISBN: 9781492701682 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The NPS Natural Resource Program Center's Geologic Resources and Water Resources Divisions hosted a three-day facilitated workshop attended by 53 resource managers and staff from ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes parks, regional offices, and central offices throughout the National Park System. The workshop, entitled "Establishing a Community of Practice, Formulating Guidance, and Charting a Course for the Future," was held in Boulder, Colorado on August 25-27, 2009. The purpose of the workshop was to carry out three tasks identified in the National Park Service national and regional ocean...
The NPS Natural Resource Program Center's Geologic Resources and Water Resources Divisions hosted a three-day facilitated workshop attended by 53 reso...
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71,75 zł |
From the Forest to the Sea - Public Lands Management and Marine Spatial Planning
ISBN: 9781138014428 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The management of common pool resources and publicly-owned areas is fraught with difficulty. This book explores the long, complex, and frequently contentious history of public lands management in the United States in order to draw lessons for the emerging field of marine spatial planning (MSP). The author first establishes that these two seemingly different settings are in fact remarkably similar, drawing on established theories of policy analysis. The work then examines the management of US National Forests over the past 120 years, including three place-based case studies, to... The management of common pool resources and publicly-owned areas is fraught with difficulty. This book explores the long, complex, and frequently c... |
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752,12 zł |
The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9781570619854 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fashioned by the violent volcanism of the Pacific Rim of Fire, plate tectonics, and the sculptural magic wrought by Ice Age glaciers, the Salish Sea straddles the western border between Canada and the United States and is connected to the Pacific Ocean primarily through the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This fascinating visual journey through the Salish Sea combines a scientist's inquiring mind, beautiful photographs, and a lively narrative of fascinating stories, all of which impart a sense of connection with this intricate marine ecosystem and the life that it sustains.
Fashioned by the violent volcanism of the Pacific Rim of Fire, plate tectonics, and the sculptural magic wrought by Ice Age glaciers, the Salish Sea s...
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
ISBN: 9780544484078 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 - Scientific American Recommended Read
"Fascinating, informative, exhilarating." --Wall Street Journal Deep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth. Fascinated by the sport of freediving--in which competitors descend great depths on a single breath--James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. He finds whales that communicate with other whales... New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 - Scientific American Recommended Read |
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Simulation of Salinity Intrusion Along the Georgia and South Carolina Coasts Using Climate-Change Scenarios
ISBN: 9781500266769 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Potential changes in climate could alter interactions between environmental and societal systems and adversely affect the availability of water resources in many coastal communities. Changes in streamflow patterns in conjunction with sea-level rise may change the salinity-intrusion dynamics of coastal rivers. Several municipal water-supply intakes are located along the Georgia and South Carolina coast that are proximal to the present day saltwater-freshwater interface of tidal rivers. Increases in the extent of salinity intrusion resulting from climate change could threaten the availability...
Potential changes in climate could alter interactions between environmental and societal systems and adversely affect the availability of water resour...
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89,70 zł |
Transport of Nitrogen in a Treated-Wastewater Plume to Coastal Discharge Areas, Ashumet Valley, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
ISBN: 9781500275327 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Land disposal of treated wastewater from a treatment plant on the Massachusetts Military Reservation in operation from 1936 to 1995 has created a plume of contaminated groundwater that is migrating toward coastal discharge areas in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts. To develop a better understanding of the potential impact of the treated-wastewater plume on coastal discharge areas, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, evaluated the fate of nitrogen (N) in the plume. Groundwater samples from two large sampling events in...
Land disposal of treated wastewater from a treatment plant on the Massachusetts Military Reservation in operation from 1936 to 1995 has created a plum...
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80,72 zł |
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
ISBN: 9780374535346 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new adventure into the reef to reveal how our shifting perceptions of the natural world have shaped this extraordinary seascape. Showcasing the lives of twenty individuals spanning more than two... Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more t... |
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85,47 zł |
The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
ISBN: 9780813565774 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association
Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. In The Tragedy of the Commodity, sociologists Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark explore the role human influence plays... Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association
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197,11 zł |