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Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The Earth our home is covered mostly with water: the wide, deep, salty, and very blue ocean. It regulates our climate in a way that makes life as we know it possible. This huge ocean is full of an amazing amount of life, most of which is too small to see. But life in the ocean is in trouble. The ocean is becoming hotter, more polluted, and, in places, empty of life. The right amount of warming is good for us, but too much warming is causing shifts...
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"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed,...
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English
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A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's...
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Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across geological and evolutionary time and exploring different cultures around the globe. Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied with industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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English
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"Classics from Moby Dick to A Perfect Storm have sought to capture mankind's obsession with the might and the mystery of the sea. And the greatest minds for centuries, including Isaac Newton, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin, have worked to understand and predict when its next act of destruction will occur. The awesome power of the earth's oceans have been at the forefront of everyone's minds in recent years, from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (230,000...
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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A secret base built by the Ancients is found in the ice in Antarctica. The Stargate Atlantis team is sent on a one-way mission to explore the distant Pegasus galaxy. The team encounters many new civilizations, including the sinister Wraith.
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
Description
A new group of explorers travel to the distant Pegasus Galaxy, where it discovers the advanced but deserted city of Atlantis on the ocean floor. Stranded in a new galaxy, without the possiblitity of returning to Earth, the team encounters a group of nomadic humans and a deadly enemy that feeds on humans as an energy source!
12) Atlantic
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Acclaimed British journalist turned author Simon Winchester invites listeners to join him as he explores the Atlantic Ocean.
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Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Sparks fly when Woolsey becomes the new leader of the Atlantis team; McKay faces difficult personal challenges; Teyla must balance her roles as mother and warrior; Ronan's past returns with a vengeance; and Kelly finds peril, then help, from an unlikely source. A provisional relationship with the Wraith takes a shocking turn and new adversaries test the team's courage and resolve like never before.
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Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
Description
After narrowly surviving a massive Wraith attack, the new inhabitants of Atlantis continue to uncover the secrets of the ancients and search for allies in their corner of the universe, but the persistant threat of interference from vicious enemies haunt them in their pursuits. Will they find the elusive power source they so desperately need or the renegade team member they've lost?
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Colonel Samantha Carter takes charge as the city's new leader, facing new and daunting challenges, including joining forces with the dangerous Wraith in order to fight a common enemy-- the seemingly unstoppable Replicators.
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ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives"--
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