Climate & Oceans

Stung!

On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Lisa-ann Gershwin

“Gershwin, tells the story of jellyfish and human plunder of the oceans in Stung!. [It] evokes the danger of jellyfish blooms but, even more fundamentally, it is about the real stung effect of the collapsing oceans. . . . Extremely important, well written, and well documented.” —Huffington Post

2014 456 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 1 halftone, 4 tables 380 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-21303-3 $22.50

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Plankton

Wonders of the Drifting World

Christian Sardet

“Filled with more than five hundred close-ups of jewel-like diatoms and gelatinous comb jellies, each accompanied by a condensed history and biography, the book is a long overdue introduction to the oceans’ ninety-eight percent.”—New Yorker

“A positively stunning book.” —Wired

“In this beautiful book, marine scientist Christian Sardet shows that tiny plankton, not enormous blue whales, are the real stars of the ocean. Macro pictures of the huge variety of plankton forms and short details of their lives force a reconsideration of our view of them as part of an amorphous soup. A celebration of the small, and an unalloyed joy.”—Nature

2015 224 p. 93/4 x 121/2 550 color plates 381 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18871-3 $45.00

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Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises

A Natural History and Species Guide

Edited by Annalisa Berta

“‘I take the good old-fashioned ground that the whale is a fish,’ Ishmael says confidently in Melville’s Moby-Dick. Old-fashioned indeed—whales are mammals, not fish. Thankfully, our scientific understanding of whales has come a long way since 1851, and much of that knowledge is collected in Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, a sperm whale-sized compendium of all things cetacean.”—Wired Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

D. Graham Burnett

“A gifted and often very funny writer, Burnett bristles at the restrictions of academic rigor but does not abandon them. . . . His greatest service is to tell a story that helps us understand the present-day political obstacles to addressing key environmental questions.” —New York Times Book Review

“A remarkable book, an astounding piece of research. . . . This is a major work in the history of science, but it is also an environmental history, a study in decisionmaking and a contribution to the growing genre of ocean history.” —Guardian

2013 824 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 86 halftones, 18 line drawings 383 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-10057-9 $34.00

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RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

In Search of the Soul of the Sea

Philip Hoare

“This is a book that is at once nature writing, memoir, literary criticism, travelogue and elegy. . . . RisingTideFallingStar is about books and about swimming, but most of all it does what all great books do: makes you feel that it’s a private conversation between you and the author.”—Guardian

2018 416 p. 6 x 9 80 halftones, 3 line drawings 384 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56052-6 $20.00

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Call of the Blue

Philip Hamilton

“A beautiful, otherworldly compendium of underwater photographs.”—GQ

“Teeming with images of spectacular underwater scenes from around the world.”—Guardian

“Hamilton’s camera captures underwater splendors. . . . Call of the Blue takes the viewer on a journey through ocean ecosystems we rarely observe.”—Sierra Magazine

Distributed for Paul Holberton Publishing

2018 320 p. 15 x 111/4 385 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911300-51-9 $79.95

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All the Boats on the Ocean

How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing

Carmel Finley

“90% of global fish stocks are fully fished or overfished. Science historian Finley traces that crisis back to the Cold War, when seafaring nations deployed fishing to stake territorial claims. . . . Now, with little reduction in subsidized fleets and oceans at risk, Finley sees the future of fisheries hinging on holistic approaches involving fish, fisher and environment.”—Nature The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole

Sarah Dry

“In the eight detailed, immensely readable essays of Waters of the World, Dry shows how over the past 150 years scientists have slowly come to see climate as a global system, and to recognize how human activity contributes to changes in the complex interactions of ice, oceans, and the atmosphere.” —New York Review of Books

“Dry takes readers on a journey through the history of climate science in this smart, compelling, and timely title. By focusing on specific scientists, Dry gifts readers with entertaining portraits of some thoroughly interesting if largely unknown individuals. . . . She shows how an artful blending of the personal and professional can result in unusually affecting scientific profiles. A true success on every literary level.”— Booklist, Starred Review

2019 368 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones 387 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50770-5 $30.00

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Walden Warming

Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods

Richard B. Primack

“More than a clarion testament to the real and present effects of climate change. It is an exhortation to become more engaged in the natural world whether through citizen science or observation, and, in so doing, recognize and limit our own impacts on the earth.”—Science

2015 272 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 388 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27229-0 $15.00

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Ground Truth

A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home

Mark L. Hineline

“Hineline’s wonderful new book advocates the addition of a new kind of individual action to supplement our political struggle [against climate change]—one that’s both pragmatic and emotionally resonant.”—Slate

2018 240 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 389 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34813-1 $20.00

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After Preservation

Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans

Edited by Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Pyne

“Conservation requires conversation; protecting nature while still using it to meet human needs is a paradoxical mission, and its methods depend heavily on time and place. In such terrain, manifestos make lousy guides.”—New Yorker

2015 240 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 1 line drawing 390 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-25996-3 $18.00

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