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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
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Include books by the same authorPoseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality
Helen Scales · 274 pages
A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong, and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome. Over tim
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe · 296 pages
"The author of Second Nature challenges popular misconceptions to explore the complex lives of the planet's diverse fish species, drawing on the latest understandings in animal behavior and biology to reveal their self-awareness, elaborate courtship rituals and cooperative intelligence,"--NoveList.
At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
Carl Zimmer · 290 pages
At the Water's Edge takes you to the icy peaks of Greenland, the ancient shores of the Tethys Sea, and the warm waters of the Bahamas to visit with dolphins as it surveys how we have come to understand two special cases of macroevolution. In the first, around 360 million years ago, the descendants of one lineage of fish came ashore and rushed over the continents, eventually evolving into everythin
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery · 261 pages
This awe striking, almost alien trip, draws us into the otherworldly watery realm of cephalopods --- except they aren't alien. Octopuses (not octopi, as the author informs) may arguably be as intelligent, as highly curious, and absolutely more dexterous than human beings. Sy Montgomery introduces us to these creatures with their fascinating and individual personalities.
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Wendy Williams · 222 pages
In addition to squid, both giant and otherwise, Kraken examines other cephalopods, including the octopus and cuttlefish.
The Edge of the Sea
Rachel Carson · 276 pages
We see how the tides, waves, and ocean current shape the living creatures that depend on them. Three main types of environment--the rock shore, the rim of sand and the coral coast found on the American Atlantic coast are studied in detail.
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
Samantha Weinberg · 240 pages
"Just before Christmas 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the young curator of a small South African museum, spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes, and remarkable limb-like fins - unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up w
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
John Steinbeck · 286 pages
This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure.
Dolphins And Sharks
Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce · 128 pages
Discusses dolphins and sharks, their ocean habitats, and general information about oceans and oceanography.
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
Caspar Henderson · 437 pages
The creatures that abound in Henderson's book—from the axolotl to the zebrafish—are, with one exception, very much with us, albeit sometimes in depleted numbers. *The Book of Barely Imagined Beings* transports readers to a world of real creatures that seem as if they should be made up—that are somehow more astonishing than anything we might have imagined. The yeti crab, for example, uses its furry
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
Susan Casey · 339 pages
Investigates colossal ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories; waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a number of ships have vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized s
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Frans de Waal · 304 pages
A renowned primatologist argues that ethical behavior witnessed in animals is the evolutionary and biological origin of human fairness and explains that morality has more to do with natural instincts than with religion.
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould · 413 pages
Une compilation de trente essais parus pour la plupart dans ##Natural history magazine## et articulés autour de la théorie de l'évolution. Sept parties : Des bizarreries raisonnables - Personnalités - Adaptation et évolution - Teilhard et Piltdown - Science et politique - L'extinction - Une trilogie du zèbre. L'auteur, professeur à l'Université de Harvard, a précédemment publié deux autres recueil
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers · 320 pages
In the tradition of Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, and Neil Shubin, cardiologist and psychiatrist Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live, die, get sick, and heal in their natural settings.
What a Plant Knows: The Hidden Senses of Your Garden - and Beyond
Daniel Chamovitz · 224 pages
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg · 304 pages
**A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril.** Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide morator
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville · 420 pages
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
A Devil's Chaplain
Richard Dawkins · 272 pages
'Moet u zich eens voorstellen wat voor boek een kapelaan van de duivel zou kunnen schrijven over de onhandige, verspillende, blunderende en gruwelijk gemene werken van de natuur.' Dit schreef Darwin in 1856 aan een vriend. Maar, hoe gruwelijk en onhandig ook, willekeurig zijn de evolutionaire processen allerminst, zo laat Richard Dawkins zien in zijn even nuchtere als helder onderbouwde werk. Ka
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett · 750 pages
This is an amazing book that Laura Garrett wrote back in the 90's. For anyone that has read the more popular book by Richard Preston "The Hot Zone" this is a must read. It is a much tighter more informative book. She takes us through the history of viruses in a journalistic/story approach. She breaks down the emergence of Ebola and the other emerging viruses and what it could mean in a brilliantl
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Sharon Moalem · 279 pages
Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity is a 2007 New York Times Bestselling science book by Sharon Moalem, an evolutionary biologist and neurogeneticist, and Jonathan Prince, senior advisor and speechwriter for the Clinton administration. It was originally titled, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O. Wilson · 375 pages
"In this new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience - the proof that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles underlying every branch of learning." "Professor Wilson shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual maste
Killer Germs: Microbes and Diseases That Threaten Humanity
Barry E. Zimmerman, David J. Zimmerman · 272 pages
The book goes on a fascinating journey into the amazing world of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and worms and explores the roles they have played in shaping the course of human history. From biblical plagues, to the AIDS crisis, to supergerms of the future, this updated and revised edition of the original covers the whole gamut of diseases that have threatened humanity since its origins. It a