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The Urban Whale

Scott D. Kraus,Rosalind M. Rolland
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Author : Scott D. Kraus,Rosalind M. Rolland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674034754

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The Urban Whale by Scott D. Kraus,Rosalind M. Rolland Pdf

In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of 25 right whales. It was, one scientist later recalled, "like finding a brontosaurus in the backyard." Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlantic right whale was extinct or nearly so. The sightings electrified the research community, spurring a quarter century of exploration, which is documented here. The authors present our current knowledge about the biology and plight of right whales, including their reproduction, feeding, genetics, and endocrinology, as well as fatal run-ins with ships and fishing gear. Employing individual identifications, acoustics, and population models, Scott Kraus, Rosalind Rolland, and their colleagues present a vivid history of this animal, from a once commercially hunted commodity to today's life-threatening challenges of urban waters. Hunted for nearly a millennium, right whales are now being killed by the ocean commerce that supports our modern way of life. This book offers hope for the eventual salvation of this great whale.

Disappearing Giants

Scott Kraus,Kenneth Mallory
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Author : Scott Kraus,Kenneth Mallory
Publisher : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1593730047

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Disappearing Giants by Scott Kraus,Kenneth Mallory Pdf

The North Atlantic right whale is the most endangered large whale in the oceans today. This is a story of science and rediscovery, of survival and protection, and of research, without which we cannot hope to protect the right whale's habitat.

Whale in a Fishbowl

Troy Howell
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Author : Troy Howell
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524715182

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Whale in a Fishbowl by Troy Howell Pdf

A moving, poetic story about a whale in captivity who longs for the ocean . . . because whales don't belong in fishbowls, do they? Wednesday is a whale who lives in a fishbowl smack dab in the middle of a city--it's the only home she's ever known. Cars whizz around her and people hurry past; even the sun and moon circle above. But if she leaps high enough out of her bowl, Wednesday can see it: a calm bit of blue off in the distance. When a girl in a paisley dress tells Wednesday "You belong in the sea," the whale starts to wonder, what is the sea? Readers will cheer--and get all choked up-- when, one day, Wednesday leaps higher than ever before and sets in motion a breathtaking chain of events that will carry her to her rightful home. Touching, and ultimately uplifting, here is a story about a lonely creature longing to be free--and longing to find someone just like her. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018! A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018!

Fathoms

Rebecca Giggs
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Author : Rebecca Giggs
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781982120696

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Winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails), one that blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity, splendor, and fragility of life on earth? In Fathoms, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment. With the immediacy of Rachel Carson and the lush prose of Annie Dillard, Giggs gives us a “masterly” (The New Yorker) exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity, she outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, Fathoms “immediately earns its place in the pantheon of classics of the new golden age of environmental writing” (Literary Hub).

Orca

Lynda Mapes
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Author : Lynda Mapes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : 1680513265

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The history--and future--of one of the sea's greatest mammals

A 52-Hertz Whale

Bill Sommer,Natalie Haney Tilghman
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Author : Bill Sommer,Natalie Haney Tilghman
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ™
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467788113

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A 52-Hertz Whale by Bill Sommer,Natalie Haney Tilghman Pdf

"It appears to be the only individual emitting a call at this frequency and hence, has been described as the world's loneliest whale."—Wikipedia So here's how it all starts: James, a high school freshman, is worried that the young humpback whale he tracks online has separated from its pod. So naturally he emails Darren, the twentysomething would-be filmmaker who volunteered in James's special education program back in middle school. Of course, Darren is useless on the subject of whales, but he's got nothing but time, given that the only girl he could ever love dumped him. And fetching lattes for his boss has him close to walking out on his movie dream and boomeranging right back to his childhood bedroom. So why not reply to a random email from Whale Boy? Predictably, this thread of emails leads to a lot of bizarre stuff, including a yeti suit, drug smuggling, widows, a major documentary filmmaking opportunity, first love, a graveyard, damaged echolocation, estranged siblings, restraining orders, choke holds, emergency dentistry...and then maybe ends with something like understanding. See, it turns out that the thing that binds people together most is their fear that nothing binds them together at all.

Chasing the White Whale

David Dowling
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Author : David Dowling
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587299063

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Chasing the White Whale by David Dowling Pdf

"There have been a lot of crazy books about Melville and Moby-Dickiut this isn't one of them. Dowling's overarching analogy, between Ishmael's and Melville's obsessions and the annual marathon group-reading of Moby-Dick in New Bedford, makes perfect sense and generates illuminating analyses of the novel and its cultural contexts. It also lets him open his book up into a passionate exploration of how great literature can still play a vital role in people's lives today"-Damion Searls, editor, Thoreau's The Journal: 1837-1861 and Melville's; or The Whale --Book Jacket.

MOBY DICK

Herman Melville
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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Castellnou
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788498049138

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MOBY DICK by Herman Melville Pdf

Moby Dick és la novel·la més important de Melville. Explica l'obsessió d'un home, el capità Ahab, per matar Moby Dick, una balena en la qual veu l'encarnació del Mal. Ahab actua mogut per l'odi a l'animal que, una vegada, li va arrencar una cama. Però, per sobre del ressentiment, predomina la seva convicció que Moby Dick és un ésser malèfic que el destí ha decidit posar davant d'ell perquè el mati o perquè mori en l'intent.

We Are All Whalers

Michael J. Moore
We Are All Whalers Book PDF

Author : Michael J. Moore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226803043

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We Are All Whalers by Michael J. Moore Pdf

"Marine scientist Michael J. Moore says we are all whalers, but we don't have to be. Eating fish leads to North Atlantic right whales' entanglement and death. Buying goods made around the world requires global shipping routes, which do not accurately consider right whale breeding and feeding sites, leading to collision. To explain this, Moore conveys to readers scenes from over thirty years' worth of fieldwork, performing whale necropsies for animals stranded on beaches, working as an independent researcher alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and tracking injured pregnant whales to deliver antibiotics. Despite these sometimes disturbing experiences, Moore has written a hopeful book. He uses these stories to show we can change and to tell us how; the technology for rope-less fishing and tracking whale migrations already exist to protect both right whales and the people who depend on shipping and fishing for their livelihoods"--

How Big Is a Blue Whale?

Kurt Waldendorf
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Author : Kurt Waldendorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Blue whale
ISBN : 1503816753

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Examines the size of a blue whale through simple text, photograph, and measurement comparisons.

North Atlantic Right Whales

David W. Laist
North Atlantic Right Whales Book PDF

Author : David W. Laist
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421420998

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North Atlantic Right Whales by David W. Laist Pdf

The fascinating story of North Atlantic right whales—from their evolutionary origin, through a thousand-year history of relentless pursuit by whalers, to ongoing efforts to rescue them from the brink of extinction. In the cold waters of the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean, some of the heartiest humans of medieval days ventured out in search of whales. Through the centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic became increasingly dependent on whale oil and other cetacean products. To meet this growing demand, whaling became ever more sophisticated and intense, leading to the collapse of what was once a seemingly inexhaustible supply of large cetaceans. Central to the whale's subsequent struggle for existence has been one species—the North Atlantic right whale. Conservationist David W. Laist now provides the first complete history of the North Atlantic right whale, from its earliest encounters with humans to its close brush with extinction, to its currently precarious yet hopeful status as a conservation icon. Favored by whalers because of their high yields of oil and superior baleen, these giants became known as "the right whale to hunt," and their numbers dwindled to a mere 100 individuals worldwide. Their dire status encouraged the adoption of a ban on hunting and a treaty that formed the International Whaling Commission. Recovery of the species, however, has proven elusive. Ship strikes and entanglement in commercial fishing gear have hampered herculean efforts to restore the population. Today, only about 500 right whales live along the US and Canadian Atlantic coasts—an improvement from the early twentieth century, but still a far cry from the thousands that once graced Atlantic waters. Laist's masterpiece features an incredible collection of photographs and artwork that give life to the fascinating history that unfolds in its pages. The result is a single volume that offers a comprehensive understanding of North Atlantic right whales, the role they played in the many cultures that hunted them, and our modern attempts to help them recover.

Trying Leviathan

D. Graham Burnett
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Author : D. Graham Burnett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400833986

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Trying Leviathan by D. Graham Burnett Pdf

In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett vividly recreates the trial, during which a parade of experts--pea-coated whalemen, pompous philosophers, Jacobin lawyers--took the witness stand, brandishing books, drawings, and anatomical reports, and telling tall tales from whaling voyages. Falling in the middle of the century between Linnaeus and Darwin, the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transformations in the understanding of the natural world. Out went comfortable biblical categories, and in came new sorting methods based on the minutiae of interior anatomy--and louche details about the sexual behaviors of God's creatures. When leviathan breached in New York in 1818, this strange beast churned both the natural and social orders--and not everyone would survive.

The Walking Whales

J. G. M. Thewissen
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Author : J. G. M. Thewissen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520305601

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The Walking Whales by J. G. M. Thewissen Pdf

"A ... first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast. Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection, enriching it with local flavors from South Asian culture and society"--Dust jacket flap.

The North Atlantic Right Whale

Joann Hamilton-Barry
The North Atlantic Right Whale Book PDF

Author : Joann Hamilton-Barry
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Nature
ISBN : 177108748X

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The North Atlantic Right Whale by Joann Hamilton-Barry Pdf

The North Atlantic right whale, known as the "right" whale to kill, has been commercially hunted for its abundant blubber and oil. Offering background on the whale's history, unique biology and behaviour, information on what is killing them and how readers can help, this important, accessible book will spark action and increase awareness.

Tales from the Inner City

Shaun Tan
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Author : Shaun Tan
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780735265219

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Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan Pdf

A unique and beautiful book for kids and adults that combines short stories and poetry with surrealist art -- a return to the form that made Shaun Tan a visionary in the world of graphic novels. A young girl's cat brightens the lives of everyone in the neighborhood. A woman and her dog are separated by time and space, awaiting the day they will be reunited. A race of fish build a society parallel to our own. And a bunch of office managers suddenly turn into frogs, but find that their new lives aren't so bad. The ambitious, unique and provocative Tales From the Inner City draws on the success of Shaun Tan's The Arrival and Tales From Outer Suburbia and updates its sensibilities for a new generation. Combining his poignant and sensitive short stories with surreal, luminous paintings, Tan turns his astute lens on the environment, cities, family and the relationships between human and animals. This work opens a portal to the imagination and captures the beauty, joy and tragedy in the everyday lives of kids, teens and adults.