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In the Name of Sharks
Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experienced a profound sense of affinity with her as they swam side by side, shoulder to shoulder, eye to eye, cutting a single figure through the ocean depths. It was an experience which made him realize the depth of our ignorance of the lives of sharks, leading him to become a passionate advocate for their protection. Drawing on the latest scientific research on the biology and ethology of sharks and their exceptional characteristics, this book aims to break through the barrier of prejudice and to pay homage to their true nature. Representing a last vestige of wildness, their populations are nevertheless under threat – like so many species, they have been hunted and exploited by humans. Sarano argues for a change of mindset in which we lose ourselves in the world of the other, so that each living entity, human and non-human, can take their rightful place in the broader global ecosystem.
Physical Oceanographic Processes of the Great Barrier Reef
Physical Oceanographic Processes of the Great Barrier Reef is the first comprehensive volume describing the water circulation and its influence in controlling the distribution of marine life on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. The book uses exhaustive field and numerical studies to show how the influence of the salient topography occurs at all scales.
Le chant des sirènes
Les océans occupent une place déterminante dans le discours social et il devient urgent d’exercer, en marge de l’action écologique, un travail critique sur le langage grâce auquel se pense et se raconte l’exploration sous-marine. Ce livre aborde les enjeux environnementaux, économiques et politiques soulevés par la plus grande accessibilité au milieu subaquatique que le perfectionnement du scaphandre autonome et l’invention du bathyscaphe ont permis depuis les années 1950. L’analyse littéraire permet d’aborder des textes scientifiques tout en faisant ressortir les motivations et les tensions qui ont animé leurs auteurs, ceux-là mêmes qui ont contribué à instaurer notre rapport actuel aux océans. Un rapport qui doit d’ailleurs évoluer, comme nous le rappelle l’Organisation des Nations unies qui a lancé en 2021 la Décennie pour les sciences océaniques dans une perspective de développement durable. Cet ouvrage magnifiquement écrit, très évocateur, s’adresse à tous ceux et celles que la littérature, la vulgarisation scientifique, l’océanographie, l’histoire maritime ou la biologie marine intéressent.
Im Cockpit der Biene
Wie Intelligenz bei einem Tier nachweisen, das nur wenige Wochen lebt? Lars Chittka erzählt uns unterhaltsam von den Wundern natürlicher Intelligenz selbst bei winzigen Tieren. Bienen entwickeln im Schwarm faszinierende Fähigkeiten, sind aber auch als Individuen verblüffend intelligent. Neue bahnbrechende Forschungen zeigen, dass sie denken und fühlen, dass sie Persönlichkeit, wenn nicht gar Bewusstsein besitzen. Bienen zählen, erkennen menschliche Gesichter und nutzen Werkzeuge, sie lösen Probleme durch Nachdenken und reagieren individuell auf äußere Reize. Und das alles mit völlig anderen Sinnesorganen: Dank ihres kompakten Nervensystems navigieren sie präzise und speichern Informationen, ihre Antennen sind multifunktional wie Schweizer Messer. Das neue Standardwerk über die Biene
Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 1
This open-access book empowers its readers to explore the acoustic world of animals. By listening to the sounds of nature, we can study animal behavior, distribution, and demographics; their habitat characteristics and needs; and the effects of noise. Sound recording is an efficient and affordable tool, independent of daylight and weather; and recorders may be left in place for many months at a time, continuously collecting data on animals and their environment. This book builds the skills and knowledge necessary to collect and interpret acoustic data from terrestrial and marine environments. Beginning with a history of sound recording, the chapters provide an overview of off-the-shelf recor...
The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus
The beloved explorer Jacques Cousteau witnessed firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea-and watched the toll taken by human activity in the twentieth century. In this magnificent last book, now available for the first time in the United States, Cousteau describes his deeply informed philosophy about protecting our world for future generations. Weaving gripping stories of his adventures throughout, he and coauthor Susan Schiefelbein address the risks we take with human health, the overfishing and sacking of the world's oceans, the hazards of nuclear proliferation, and the environmental responsibility of scientists, politicians, and people of faith. This prescient, clear-sighted book is a remarkable testament to the life and work of one of our greatest modern adventurers.
The Revival of Democracy in America and the Better Angels of Your Nature
A worthy heir to Alexis de Tocqueville’s landmark nineteenth-century analysis of the democratic experiment in the United States, Renaud Lassus’s The Revival of Democracy in America is both a brisk, lucid assessment of the nation’s current political and social climate and a resounding call for optimism at a moment when the prevailing winds seem to be blowing the other way. The book’s first part is devoted to a nuanced and expansive diagnosis of the various crises, from immigration and economic inequality to media fragmentation and the outsize role of money in politics, that have created tensions and fault lines in American society. Lassus argues persuasively that these problems, some ...
Mysterious Creatures [2 volumes]
A comprehensive guide to cryptozoology—the quest to identify animals that have not been officially catalogued by science and to place these unknown animals into their proper zoological categories. In this fascinating two-volume encyclopedia, author George M. Eberhart provides a comprehensive catalog of nearly 1,000 cryptids—unknown animals usually reported through eyewitness accounts and not yet described by science. Cryptids are the stuff of folklore, hoaxes, and genuine scientific breakthroughs. There are 400 now-classified cryptids once considered either extinct or pure fantasy. The cryptozoologist's job is to strip away the myth, misidentification, and mystery—and separate fact fro...
