Tag: Seas

Free Download Dana Desonie, "Oceans: How We Use the Seas (Our Fragile Planet)"
English | 2007 | pages: 229 | ISBN: 0816062161 | PDF | 5,9 mb
Earth’s seas play a tremendous role in the planet’s systems: Ocean currents transfer water and heat around the globe, and ocean ecosystems are among the most biologically productive anywhere. But the oceans are being abused. Wild fisheries are harvested to the point of collapse, and some aquaculture damages life and the environment. People intentionally or inadvertently dump wastes sewage, oil, toxic chemicals, detergents, fertilizers, and invasive species and all have an impact on ocean ecosystems. Offering full-color photographs and illustrations and captivating text, Oceans introduces young science students to these urgent issues. This important new work shows how protecting the oceans requires protecting the entire planet, and describes the importance of setting aside marine reserves to save vital ecosystems.

Free Download German Raiders of the South Seas by Robin Bromby
English | August 24, 2012 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B009216P4S | 226 pages | EPUB | 4.35 Mb
German Raiders of the South Seas

Free Download Anne Ford, "Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Paci"
English | ISBN: 1760466433 | 2024 | 450 pages | PDF | 59 MB
"This edited volume of invited chapters honours the four decades of fundamental research by archaeologist Glenn Summerhayes into the human prehistory of the islands of the western Pacific, especially New Guinea and its offshore islands. This area helped to shape and direct many ancient dispersal events associated with Homo sapiens, initially from Africa more than 50,000 years ago, through the lower latitudes of Asia, into Australia, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and possibly the Solomon Islands.

Free Download The High Seas by Olive Heffernan
English | May 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1788163575 | 352 pages | PDF | 4.90 Mb
The ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, these waters are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments on the planet. But they are also home to exploitation on a scale that few of us can imagine.

Free Download Brian Lavery, "Empire of the Seas: How the navy forged the modern world"
English | ISBN: 1472835603 | 2019 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality – that the nation’s new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity and our democracy.

Free Download Vincent P. O’Hara, W. David Dickson, Richard Worth – On Seas Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War
Naval Institute Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1591146461 | English | 360 pages | PDF | 110.34 MB
An international team of naval historians and scholars, including John Jordan (France), Peter Schenk with Karsten Klein, Dr. Axel Niestle, Dieter Thomaier and Berndt R. Wenzel (Germany), David Wragg (Great Britain), Enrico Cernuschi and Vincent O’Hara (Italy) Mark Peattie (Japan), Trent Hone (United States) and Stephen McLaughliln (USSR) has pooled their expertise for this definitive reference on how the great navies of World War II were organized and how they trained, operated, and fought. They provide a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. Each navy has its own chapter, which covers such key features as weaponry, training, logistics, and doctrine. In bringing together data buried in specialized works in various languages, the authors deliver a fresh, multinational view of the naval war.

Free Download Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, David Kirby, Geoffrey Scammell, "The Baltic and the North Seas (Seas in History)"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0415756596, 0415132827 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 2.6 mb
Exploring the themes of the human relationship with the marine environment and the ways in which the peoples of Northern Europe have experienced and exploited their seas, this book reveals how human perception of the northern seas has changed over time.

Free Download The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas: Part 2 By Anugerah Nontji, Mohammad Kasim Moosa, Tomas Tomascik
1997 | 752 Pages | ISBN: 9625931635 | PDF | 133 MB
The second volume discusses the origins, formation and distribution of various reef types in the Indonesian Archipelago, and provides new estimates on their extent.

Free Download The Ecology of the Indonesian Seas: Part 1 By Anugerah Nontji, Mohammad Kasim Moosa, Tomas Tomascik
1997 | 691 Pages | ISBN: 9625930787 | PDF | 117 MB
The first volume provides a review of the geology, physical oceanography and meteorology of the archipelago. Coral reefs, one of the most important, yet least known ecosystems in Indonesia, are introduced in this volume through discussions of the geologic history of reefs, followed by a review of the major theories of coral reef formation, development and their world distribution. Corals and other reef-associated organisms are then examined. The chapter on foraminifera, major producers of the present and past carbonate deposits, presents some little-known Indonesian assemblages. Next, the authors look at the natural environmental factors that affect coral reef development and survival. A chapter on coral reef growth and development concludes the first volume.

Free Download Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages By Alice Beck Kehoe
2016 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 1315416409 | PDF | 21 MB
Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were highways, not barriers, and that ancient people possessed the means and motives to traverse them. In this brief, thought-provoking, but controversial book Alice Kehoe considers the existing evidence in her reassessment of ancient sailing. Her book-critically analyzes the growing body of evidence on prehistoric sailing to help scholars and students evaluate a highly controversial hypothesis;-examines evidence from archaeology, anthropology, botany, art, mythology, linguistics, maritime technology, architecture, paleopathology, and other disciplines;-presents her evidence in student-accessible language to allow instructors to use this work for teaching critical thinking skills.