Ocean Press

DescriptionPlastics have transformed every aspect of our lives. Yet the very properties that make them attractive--they are cheap to make, light, a...

Reducere. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island s legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revo...

Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Richard T. Rodriguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians like Siouxsie and the Ba...

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

Reducere. The wide promenade of the boardwalk, the ring of the carnival games and a steaming bushel of crabs all make for an iconic Ocean City summer. Yet be...

Reducere. A Guide for Lightworkers by Archangel Michael presents a powerful paradigm shift related to the conditions of life on this Earth. For those who wis...

DescriptionThere is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. Marine epidemics have the potential to...

Description"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the s...

The global phenomenon that has sold 3.5 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 43 languages and is a bestseller across five continents—n...

From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation a...

Reducere. We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challe...

DescriptionHow is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nation-states around the...

Reducere. This book was created to provide a fully-illustrated (photographs) reference essential to those who desire a compendium of plants, herbs, and trees...

If you center a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view wh...

The book provides a non-specialist introduction to the reasons why we can make sense of the world around and within us, facing the oceans of comple...

The theme of the seas has long been a central topic in scholarship on the Lusophone world, but more recent research has invested ocean crossings wi...

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for...

Reducere. In The Ocean in the School Rick Bonus tells the stories of Pacific Islander students as they and their allies struggled to transform a university t...

Reducere. DescriptionDid you know that octopuses are among the most intelligent creatures on earth?Nature's Children series provides young readers (Ages 8-10...

An exhilarating collection of today's most remarkable homes built in awe-inspiring coastal locations around the worldWhite-sand beaches, jaw-droppi...

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microsco...

Reducere. Books like this one help lead the way to a better climate future for all inhabitants of Mother Earth. We are all in this together! -- Jeff Bridges,...

Reducere. A view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmet...

Reducere. From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins ...

The number and size of dead zones, uninhabitable zones in our water, are on the rise. In this book, David L. Kirchman explains how they were discov...

Contributor(s): Author: David ArmitageAuthor: Alison BashfordThe first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sebouh AslanianIllustration(s): 14 b-w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tablesNumbe...

The best of W. Chan Kim and Ren e Mauborgne's articles on blue ocean strategy, all in one place.The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over ...

DescriptionFully illustrated throughout, this authoritative reference brings together practical advice from the world's experts on ocean sailing, d...

The fascinating story of the 1907 RMS Mauretania, the then-most-famous liner in the world

Reducere. In her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through--and travel across--the ocean mediates the construction of Asia...

Reducere. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mys...

Reducere. John Muir's Great Hike to the Gulf Of Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean WatersThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1916 A...

Reducere. English is often a primary literary language for Filipino writers--not only for those in the Philippines but for those resident in the US; both gro...

Reducere. This 2001 book uses legal texts, literary and artistic creations, maps and policy debates, to trace the changing uses, regulations, and representat...

Contributor(s): Editor: Jerome RothenbergHailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Boo...

Experience the force, mystery, and beauty of the ocean and seas through more than 300 images - featuring underwater photography, oceanographic maps...

DescriptionNotable advances of the last quarter-century have deepened our appreciation of the three-dimensional nature of the ocean's large-scale c...

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

This book describes emerging and unresolved issues related to the oceans and marine environment, and presents recent developments made in marine sc...

A comprehensive introduction to ocean ecology and a new way of thinking about ocean life Marine ecology is more interdisciplinary, broader in scope...

Meteorologists and oceanographers build global atmospheric and oceanic models for weather and climate prediction using fundamental equations of flu...

Examines the untold history of approximately one hundred 'Madagascar Youths', young people who British authorities accepted for training abroad fol...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they interact. This book examines how Port...

Provides a theoretical framework upon which graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of processes that contr...

Reducere. Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate the arts in a gl...