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Book Living with the Sea

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  • Author : Mike Brown
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-10-03
  • ISBN : 0429685424
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Living with the Sea written by Mike Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness. From the plastics littering our seas, to the role of climate change on ocean currents from unequal access of marine resources to the treacherous experiences of seafarers who keep our global economy afloat; now is a crucial time to examine how we live with the sea. This ambitious book brings together an interdisciplinary and international cohort of contributors from within and beyond academia. It offers a range and diversity of insights unlike previous collections. An ‘oceanic turn’ is taking place, with a burgeoning of academic work that takes seriously the place of seas and oceans in understanding socio-cultural and political life, past and present. Yet, there is a significant gap concerning the ways in which we engage with seas and oceans, with a will to enliven action and evoke change. This book explores these challenges, offering insights from spatial planning, architectural design, geography, educational studies, anthropology and cultural studies. An examination through these lenses can help us to better understand human relationships with the seas and oceans, and promote an ethic of care for the future.

Book The Living Sea

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  • Author : Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book The Living Sea written by Jacques Yves Cousteau and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living by the Ocean

Download or read book Living by the Ocean written by Phaidon Press and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating collection of today's most remarkable homes built in awe-inspiring coastal locations around the world White-sand beaches, jaw-droppingly sheer cliff faces, and secret coves are just some of the stunning sites of the architect-designed contemporary houses featured in this celebration of incredible residences that exist in harmony with the extraordinary power of the ocean. With such unique residences as light-houses, homes built into rocky clifftops, and even rooms that are totally underwater, this inspirational collection includes spectacular homes across the globe including prime examples in countries across 6 continents, from Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, to the UK and USA. In glorious color with dazzling images throughout, this book brings together the finest examples of residential coastal architecture from 47 of the world's most revered architects, such as Elemental, Ryue Nishizawa, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, and Fearon Hay as well as a host of lesser-known creative studios. Each home featured is showcased by glorious exterior and interior photography, and each shares a profound connection to the raw and thrilling beauty of the sea and the shore line around it.

Book Simply by the Sea

Download or read book Simply by the Sea written by Tracey Rapisardi and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal living to island living- Simply by the Sea is a beautiful collection of interiors by Tracey Rapasardi. Comfortable interiors welcome family and friends at these stunning coastal retreats that sit along the natural beauty of the coastlines.

Book Living and Working in the Sea

Download or read book Living and Working in the Sea written by James Woodell Miller and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Extreme Life of the Sea

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  • Author : Stephen R. Palumbi
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 0691169810
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Extreme Life of the Sea written by Stephen R. Palumbi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extreme Life of the Sea exposes the eternal darkness of the deepest undersea trenches to show how marine life thrives against the odds, describing how flying fish strain to escape their predators, how predatory deep-sea fish use red searchlights only they can see to find and attack food, and how, at the end of her life, a mother octopus dedicates herself to raising her batch of young.

Book The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

Download or read book The Living Sea of Waking Dreams written by Richard Flanagan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love's disappointments Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her, others are similarly vanishing, yet no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into an eerily beautiful story of grief and possibility, of loss and love and orange-bellied parrots. Hailed on publication in Australia as Richard Flanagan's greatest novel yet, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a rising ember storm illuminating what remains when the inferno beckons: one part elegy, one part dream, one part hope.

Book A Summer Place

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  • Author : Tricia Foley
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 0847870006
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book A Summer Place written by Tricia Foley and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this ode to summer living, noted designer and author Tricia Foley discusses how to create airy and relaxed homes, which capture the essence of the seaside. A Summer Place reflects the natural charm, understated beauty, and sophistication of the properties of notable tastemakers of Long Island's idyllic seaside community of Bellport-Brookhaven, where Foley resides. This beautifully photographed collection of homes offers inspirational ideas for making your home a personal sanctuary. Featured are modern residences by the sea designed around their water views, nineteenth-century shingle-style cottages that have been restored for today's living, and artist retreats filled with color, pattern, and unique style. Many of these houses, with their screened porches, handcrafted outbuildings, and summer gardens have ideas that translate to seaside living anywhere. Some are decorated with subtle hues of sky blue, white floorboards, and comfortable rustic or contemporary furnishings. The grounds vary from manicured lawns that roll down to the sea to wild landscapes of seagrass, and lovely pergolas dripping with wisteria to working cutting gardens. With sections on summer decorating style, casual outdoor entertaining, seasonal flowers, and weekend guest tips, this book shares several ways to enjoy summer living at home.

Book Return to the Sea

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  • Author : Annalisa Berta
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-03-31
  • ISBN : 0520355520
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Return to the Sea written by Annalisa Berta and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and evolutionary times of marine mammals, from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago whose ancestors walked on land, to deep diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times.

Book Star of the Sea

Download or read book Star of the Sea written by Janet Halfmann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about what life is like for a starfish, also called a sea star.

Book You Will Live Under the Sea

Download or read book You Will Live Under the Sea written by Fred B. Phleger and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trip to the world of the future under the sea, a visitor, in diving vehicle or diving gear, will glimpse undersea miners, ranchers, and farmers at work, and swim among mysterious plants, animals, and friendly fish.

Book The Ocean of Life

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  • Author : Callum Roberts
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-05-24
  • ISBN : 1101583568
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book The Ocean of Life written by Callum Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times) Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. We have always been fish eaters, from the dawn of civilization, but in the last twenty years we have transformed the oceans beyond recognition. Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.

Book The Edge of the Sea

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  • Author : Rachel Carson
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780395924969
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Edge of the Sea written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental and conservation movements. New introduction by Sue Hubbell. (A Mariner Reissue)

Book Beach Houses

Download or read book Beach Houses written by Michelle Galindo and published by Braun Publishing AG. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beach Houses features a stunning array of the most ambitious examples of residential design at the sea. From a minimalist dwelling on a remote island to an apartment complex high aboce the sea to a luxurious holiday villa in an urban setting this, this volume brings together a collection of remarkable houses designed by well-known architectural firms as well as interesting approaches by local architects. The contemporary beach houses from across the world featured in this volume harmoniously adapt to the surrounding landscape while embracing the seaside lifestyle with sumptuous interiors and outdoor living spaces and balancing casual-cool and opulence. They answer today's aesthetic, functional and ecological demands, while at the same time underscoring the uniqueness of the seaside location.

Book Get in the Sea

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  • Author : Andy Dawson
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2016-02-25
  • ISBN : 1405925531
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Get in the Sea written by Andy Dawson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea - cold, wet, and unforgiving. The perfect place to dump shit products, moronic people, and crap pop culture. Man buns? Get in the sea. Glitter beards? In you go. Cereal cafes? SEA. And how about manspreading, ant gin, water sommeliers, real people playing Quidditch, dating apps, Bluetooth gloves, and Shoreditch? Then there's waterproof suits, juicing, early Christmas, dog yoga, Nando's, drones, and Gregg Wallace? Fuck. It's never ending. Something must be done. Buy this book. Or you know what you can do. . .

Book Designing Your World II

Download or read book Designing Your World II written by Marcel Wolterinck and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Following the success of Designing Your World, Wolterinck presents 17 new international projects in this second volume* The latest book of interior, exterior, and product design by Dutch designer Marcel Wolterinck* An inspiring book for interior designers and design enthusiastsIn Designing Your World II, top Dutch designer Marcel Wolterinck once again demonstrates the enormous versatility and creativity of his design agency through 17 recently completed international projects. The homes in this book reflect the diversity of Wolterinck's practice, and include a classic estate in the Dutch countryside, a loft in Amsterdam, and a holiday home in Ibiza. The refined design, high quality materials, and elegant finishes these projects share reflect the top of the market and are hallmarks of the Wolterinck design studio. Text in English and Dutch.

Book The Rising Sea

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  • Author : Orrin H. Pilkey
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2010-04-16
  • ISBN : 1597266434
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Rising Sea written by Orrin H. Pilkey and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these communities, sea level rise isn’t a distant, abstract fear: it’s happening now and it’s threatening their way of life. In The Rising Sea, Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young warn that many other coastal areas may be close behind. Prominent scientists predict that the oceans may rise by as much as seven feet in the next hundred years. That means coastal cities will be forced to construct dikes and seawalls or to move buildings, roads, pipelines, and railroads to avert inundation and destruction. The question is no longer whether climate change is causing the oceans to swell, but by how much and how quickly. Pilkey and Young deftly guide readers through the science, explaining the facts and debunking the claims of industry-sponsored “skeptics.” They also explore the consequences for fish, wildlife—and people. While rising seas are now inevitable, we are far from helpless. By making hard choices—including uprooting citizens, changing where and how we build, and developing a coordinated national response—we can save property, and ultimately lives. With unassailable research and practical insights, The Rising Sea is a critical first step in understanding the threat and keeping our heads above water.