A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age. In the summer of 1997,
Merriam Press Military Monograph 139. First Edition (August 2012). This is the story of the author's father's service in WWII as a Seabee in the US Navy. And it is also the story of the war in the Pac
Young newlyweds Peter and Dorothy Muilenburg found their way from New Hampshire to the Virgin Islands. He had been a civil rights Freedom Fighter, jailed in Mississippi while protesting racial injusti
Sea stars are amongst the most common and conspicuous invertebrates that thrive in the rich waters of the Pacific Northwest, from northern California to southeast Alaska. Worldwide there are more than
"It was a technological crisis in an alien realm: a blown-out oil well in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. For the engineers who had to kill the well, this was like Apollo 13, a crisis no one sa
Anyone who has studied linguistics in the last half-century has been affected by thework of David Perlmutter. One of the era's most versatile linguists, he is perhaps best known as thefounder (with Pa
Archaeological surveys and excavations were carried out at the site of a residential housing development on the coast of Yorkshire in northeastern England from 1999 to 2004. The most remarkable finds
Caldecott Honor?winning Steve Jenkins provides a top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.Half the earth’s surface is covered by water more than a mile deep, but
The B-29 Superfortress was for many years a cornerstone of American military aviation. Best known as a bomber, it also served in reconnaissance, as a tanker, and as a rescue plane. It was a crucial to
"I don’t know a jazz aficionado who could resist it." — "The O List," O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINEThe award-winning book by celebrated jazz composer Wynton Marsalis is now available with an exclusive art pri
Archaeologists and classicists draw evidence from landscape archaeology to explore the relationship between Greek cities and their territory, and between Greek settlers and the indigene environment in
Warm sand and cool surf. The sweet scent of cotton candy and the thrill of your first roller coaster ride. These are the kinds of memories the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has inspired over its first hu
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like.
Introduces information on water safety through the story of a little girl who invites a teddy bear-toting, fire-breathing dragon to spend the day at the beach.
