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Save the Humans
Written by Rob Stewart
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $19.00
Written by Rob Stewart
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $19.00
An impassioned and inspiring story from the creator of the award-winning documentary Sharkwater.
Beginning with a childhood spent catching poisonous snakes and chasing after alligators, Rob Stewart, the award-winning documentary filmmaker behind Sharkwater, charts his development into one of the world's leading environmental activists. Risking arrest and mafia reprisal in Costa...
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Into Great Silence
A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Written by Eva Saulitis
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.95
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas... Read more >
A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Written by Eva Saulitis
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.95
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas... Read more >
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Into Great Silence
A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Written by Eva Saulitis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.95
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas... Read more >
A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Written by Eva Saulitis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.95
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas... Read more >
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Save the Humans
Written by Rob Stewart
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.99
Written by Rob Stewart
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.99
In Save the Humans, award-winning documentary filmmaker Rob Stewart tells his captivating life-story-so-far—from self-professed “animal nerd” to one of the world’s leading environmental activists, from a person whose sole focus was saving his beloved sharks to a mission to save us all.
Rob Stewart has always been in love with creatures, the...
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Demon Fish
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
A thrilling guided tour through the world of sharks and their relationship with human communities around the globe.
From Belize to South Africa, from Shanghai to Bimini, we see that sharks are still the object of an obsession that may eventually lead to their extinction. In this eye-opening adventure that spans...
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Demon Fish
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $26.95
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $26.95
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with...
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Demon Fish
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $13.99
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $13.99
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with...
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Demon Fish
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Read by Bernadette Dunne
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $22.50
Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Written by Juliet Eilperin
Read by Bernadette Dunne
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $22.50
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with...
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To Touch a Wild Dolphin
A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
Written by Rachel Smolker
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2011
Price: $14.99
To Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact with humans. Over the next fifteen years, Smolker and a team of fellow... Read more >
A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
Written by Rachel Smolker
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2011
Price: $14.99
To Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact with humans. Over the next fifteen years, Smolker and a team of fellow... Read more >
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Grayson (ESPANOL)
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2011
Price: $6.99
De una de las nadadoras profesionales más destacadas del mundo nos llega este maravilloso relato, sobre el poder de la fe que supera todos los obstáculosEn Grayson, Lynne Cox narra la historia de un milagroso e inolvidable encuentro que vivió en el mar a los diecisiete años. En una madrugada serena... Read more >
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2011
Price: $6.99
De una de las nadadoras profesionales más destacadas del mundo nos llega este maravilloso relato, sobre el poder de la fe que supera todos los obstáculosEn Grayson, Lynne Cox narra la historia de un milagroso e inolvidable encuentro que vivió en el mar a los diecisiete años. En una madrugada serena... Read more >
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Grayson
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
It... Read more >
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $9.99
Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
It... Read more >
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Before We Leave You
Messages from the Great Whales and the Dolphin Beings
Written by Patricia Cori
Format: Trade Paperback, 212 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $18.95
What if whales and dolphins truly do have a superior intellect, as many believe, and can speak to the human race? What would their message be? In November 2008, gifted clairvoyant Patricia Cori was in Jordan teaching a workshop when a life-changing event occurred. A community of Cetaceans—“a choir of whales... Read more >
Messages from the Great Whales and the Dolphin Beings
Written by Patricia Cori
Format: Trade Paperback, 212 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $18.95
What if whales and dolphins truly do have a superior intellect, as many believe, and can speak to the human race? What would their message be? In November 2008, gifted clairvoyant Patricia Cori was in Jordan teaching a workshop when a life-changing event occurred. A community of Cetaceans—“a choir of whales... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Before We Leave You
Messages from the Great Whales and the Dolphin Beings
Written by Patricia Cori
Format: eBook, 212 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $18.95
What if whales and dolphins truly do have a superior intellect, as many believe, and can speak to the human race? What would their message be? In November 2008, gifted clairvoyant Patricia Cori was in Jordan teaching a workshop when a life-changing event occurred. A community of Cetaceans—“a choir of whales... Read more >
Messages from the Great Whales and the Dolphin Beings
Written by Patricia Cori
Format: eBook, 212 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $18.95
What if whales and dolphins truly do have a superior intellect, as many believe, and can speak to the human race? What would their message be? In November 2008, gifted clairvoyant Patricia Cori was in Jordan teaching a workshop when a life-changing event occurred. A community of Cetaceans—“a choir of whales... Read more >
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Citizens of the Sea
Wondrous Creatures From the Census of Marine Life
Written by Nancy Knowlton
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $26.00
The astonishing diversity of ocean life will wow you in this riveting book by marine scientist Nancy Knowlton. Citizens of the Sea reveals the most intriguing organisms in the ocean, captured in action by skilled underwater photographers from National Geographic and the Census of Marine Life.
As you read lively vignettes about... Read more >
Wondrous Creatures From the Census of Marine Life
Written by Nancy Knowlton
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $26.00
The astonishing diversity of ocean life will wow you in this riveting book by marine scientist Nancy Knowlton. Citizens of the Sea reveals the most intriguing organisms in the ocean, captured in action by skilled underwater photographers from National Geographic and the Census of Marine Life.
As you read lively vignettes about... Read more >
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Dolphin Chronicles
One Woman's Quest to Understand the Sea's Most Mysterious Creatures
Written by Carol J. Howard
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $13.99
One Woman's Quest to Understand the Sea's Most Mysterious Creatures
Written by Carol J. Howard
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $13.99
For everyone fascinated with the possibilities of human-animal communications, scientist Carol Howard provides an intimate, moving account of one woman's attempt to unravel the mysteries of the dolphin--one of the sea's most fascinating and enigmatic creatures.
Read more >
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Reef Madness
Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral
Written by David Dobbs
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $17.99
Explores the century-long controversy over the orgins of coral reefs, a debate that split the world of nineteenth-century science, looking at the diverse roles of Louis Agassiz, his son Alexander, and Charles Darwin and reflecting on how the search for the truth shed new light on the formation of Earth and... Read more >
Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral
Written by David Dobbs
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $17.99
Explores the century-long controversy over the orgins of coral reefs, a debate that split the world of nineteenth-century science, looking at the diverse roles of Louis Agassiz, his son Alexander, and Charles Darwin and reflecting on how the search for the truth shed new light on the formation of Earth and... Read more >
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Planet Ocean
Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm
Written by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp
Introduction by Jean-Michel Cousteau
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $40.00
Spanning the vast range of Earth's marine environments, from Greenland to the Polynesian Islands, Planet Ocean reveals hidden landscapes of unsurpassed beauty and awe. These fascinating undersea worlds occupy more than three quarters of the globe, and their natural richness is the source of all life—yet they are still poorly understood... Read more >
Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm
Written by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp
Introduction by Jean-Michel Cousteau
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $40.00
Spanning the vast range of Earth's marine environments, from Greenland to the Polynesian Islands, Planet Ocean reveals hidden landscapes of unsurpassed beauty and awe. These fascinating undersea worlds occupy more than three quarters of the globe, and their natural richness is the source of all life—yet they are still poorly understood... Read more >
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Sea Monsters
Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep
Written by Michael Everhart
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $30.00
Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget Jaws and Jurassic Park—nothing can prepare you for Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, an amazing plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a... Read more >
Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep
Written by Michael Everhart
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $30.00
Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget Jaws and Jurassic Park—nothing can prepare you for Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, an amazing plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a... Read more >
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Grayson (ESPANOL)
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $9.95
De una de las nadadoras profesionales más destacadas del mundo nos llega este maravilloso relato, sobre el poder de la fe que supera todos los obstáculosEn Grayson, Lynne Cox narra la historia de un milagroso e inolvidable encuentro que vivió en el mar a los diecisiete años. En una madrugada serena... Read more >
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $9.95
De una de las nadadoras profesionales más destacadas del mundo nos llega este maravilloso relato, sobre el poder de la fe que supera todos los obstáculosEn Grayson, Lynne Cox narra la historia de un milagroso e inolvidable encuentro que vivió en el mar a los diecisiete años. En una madrugada serena... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Grayson
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
It... Read more >
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English Channel, twice, and the Catalina Channel).
It... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
Written by Susan Casey
Read by Susan Casey
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $13.48
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called... Read more >
A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
Written by Susan Casey
Read by Susan Casey
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $13.48
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called... Read more >
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The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
Written by Susan Casey
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $17.50
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called... Read more >
A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
Written by Susan Casey
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $17.50
Travel thirty miles north, south, or east of San Francisco city hall and you'll be engulfed in a landscape of thick traffic, fast enterprise, and six-dollar cappuccinos. Venture thirty miles due west, however, and you will find yourself on what is virtually another planet: a spooky cluster of rocky islands called... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download.
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Reef Madness
Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral
Written by David Dobbs
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $25.00
Reef Madness opens up the world of nineteenth-century science and philosophy at a moment when the nature of scientific thought was changing, when what we call “science” (the word did not even exist) was spoken of as “natural philosophy” and was a part of theology, the study of “God’s natural works.”
This... Read more >
Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral
Written by David Dobbs
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $25.00
Reef Madness opens up the world of nineteenth-century science and philosophy at a moment when the nature of scientific thought was changing, when what we call “science” (the word did not even exist) was spoken of as “natural philosophy” and was a part of theology, the study of “God’s natural works.”
This... Read more >
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Silent World
Written by Jacques Cousteau
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
Before becoming the man who introduced us to the wonders of the sea through his beloved television series, Jacques Cousteau was better known as an engineer and the inventor of scuba. He chronicled his early days of underwater adventure in The Silent World—a memoir that was an instant, international bestseller upon... Read more >
Written by Jacques Cousteau
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
Before becoming the man who introduced us to the wonders of the sea through his beloved television series, Jacques Cousteau was better known as an engineer and the inventor of scuba. He chronicled his early days of underwater adventure in The Silent World—a memoir that was an instant, international bestseller upon... Read more >
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Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
Written by Alexandra Morton
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $16.00
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the... Read more >
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
Written by Alexandra Morton
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $16.00
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the... Read more >
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