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The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to gain a greater understanding of how this world of ours works. With an average depth of 12,000 feet and chasms that plunge much deeper, it forms a frontier for new discoveries. \n\nThe Brilliant Abyss tells the story of our relationship with the deep sea - how we imagine, explore and exploit it. It captures the golden age of discovery we are currently in and looks back at the history of how we got here, while also looking forward to the unfolding new environmental disasters that are taking place miles beneath the waves, far beyond the public gaze. \n\nThroughout history, there have been two distinct groups of deep-sea explorers. Both have sought knowledge but with different and often conflicting ambitions in mind. Some people want to quench their curiosity; many more have been lured by the possibilities of commerce and profit. The tension between these two opposing sides is the theme that runs throughout the book, while readers are taken on a chronological journey through humanity's developing relationship with the deep sea. The Brilliant Abyss ends by looking forwards to humanity's advancing impacts on the deep, including mining and pollution and what we can do about them.

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A vibrant guide to the Great Barrier Reef full of surprising factoids and retro illustrations, perfect for children curious about life under the sea. Now in paperback!\n\n\"A very good book for beefing up the coral reef section, or for niche projects on climate change.\"\n —School Library Journal\n\nDid you know that giant clams can weigh as much as two baby elephants? Or that the shockwave of a pistol shrimp can heat up the surrounding waters to a temperature nearly as hot as the surface of the sun? With nearly 400,000 square kilometers of dazzling color, intricate ecosystems and unique creatures large and small, The Great Barrier Reef is one of the great natural wonders of our world.\n\nVibrant, dynamic illustrations illuminate this enchanting place, its animal inhabitants, and the peoples who have embraced it as a centerpiece of their cultures. Learn all about how the reef came to be, its place in the world, and perhaps most importantly, what we can all do to help ensure that The Great Barrier Reef will be around for countless future generations to discover!

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Il meraviglioso mondo delle conchiglie raccontato dalla biologa marina Helen Scales attraverso splendide illustrazioni e informazioni da scoprire attraverso l'arte dell'osservazione. Il formato domanda e risposta accompagna i giovani lettori in una coinvolgente esperienza alla scoperta dell'incredibile diversità di conchiglie, da quelle marine alle chiocciole di terra. Un viaggio intorno al mondo che racconta gli habitat dei molluschi, mostra come forme, colori e strutture rivelano qualcosa di chi li abita e svela i luoghi fantastici in cui si trovano queste specie. Età di lettura: da 8 anni.

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No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales links past to present to show how prehistoric ocean ecology holds lessons for the ocean of today.\n\nIn elegant, evocative prose, she takes us into the realms of animals that epitomize current increasingly challenging conditions, from emperor penguins to sharks and orcas. Yet despite these threats, many hopeful signs remain, in the form of highly protected reserves, the regeneration of seagrass meadows and giant kelp forests and efforts to protect coral reefs.\n\nOffering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas, Scales insists we need more ethical and sustainable fisheries and must prevent the other existential threat of deep-sea mining. Inspiring us all to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves, she urges us to fight for the better future that still exists for the ocean.

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No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales links past to present to show how prehistoric ocean ecology holds lessons for the ocean of today.\n\nIn elegant, evocative prose, she takes us into the realms of animals that epitomize current increasingly challenging conditions, from emperor penguins to sharks and orcas. Yet despite these threats, many hopeful signs remain, in the form of highly protected reserves, the regeneration of seagrass meadows and giant kelp forests and efforts to protect coral reefs.\n\nOffering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas, Scales insists we need more ethical and sustainable fisheries and must prevent the other existential threat of deep-sea mining. Inspiring us all to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves, she urges us to fight for the better future that still exists for the ocean.

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EAN: 9781782438403
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The second in a series of books in association with the Royal Institution on their world-renowned Christmas Lectures, this time exploring the secrets of the natural world - with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.\n\nFollowing on from the success of 13 Journeys Through Space and Time, which took us on a voyage of astronomical discovery through past Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institution on space and space exploration, this book turns our attention to our own planet and the animals, plants, fish, insects and all the other living things that inhabit it - how they've evolved and the vital roles they play in the intricate webs of life on earth.\n\nTaking eleven of the most exciting and revealing Christmas Lectures on the natural world given at the Royal Institution, including Sir David Attenborough's animal-packed Lectures from 1977 and Richard Dawkins's explosive series on the evolution of life, we take an illuminating look at more than a hundred years of scientific exploration to discover the origins of life on our planet and the mysteries so far uncovered.

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EAN: 9788867226795
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La celebre biologa marina Helen Scales accompagna i bambini nel regno delle conchiglie, tra terra e mare, attraverso l'arte dell'osservare. Partendo da domande semplicissime e dalla ricchezza dell'esperienza sensoriale, avviamoci alla scoperta delle conchiglie in ogni parte del mondo. Cosa ci rivelano le loro forme, colori e consistenze? Tante notizie sui loro inquilini, dagli abissi profondi alla cima degli alberi! Un libro che stimola la propensione naturale dei bambini a collezionare e alimenta la loro curiosità fornendo semplici metodi di osservazione volti a cogliere la relazione tra gli oggetti trovati in natura e l'ecosistema. Le raccolte di conchiglie sono molto comuni nei musei di Storia Naturale di tutto il mondo, e cercarle è un passatempo gradito a tutte le età. Questo è il primo libro sul tema rivolto al pubblico più giovane. Età di lettura: da 8 anni.

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Supported by the National Trust, who look after over 780 miles of Britain’s coastline.\nTurns any beach into a treasure hunt. A simple, nostalgic pleasure and a connection with the wonders of nature.\nBeautifully illustrated and packed with surprising and delightful facts.\n\n\n Looking for seashells and learning their names is the perfect way to explore Britain’s coastline at leisure. It’s a nostalgic simple pleasure, and a way to discover some of nature’s most exquisite wonders. From the common cockle to the blue-rayed limpet, The Shell Spotter’s Guide covers the beautiful and surprising range of mussels, oysters, periwinkles, scallops, cowries and whelks found on our beaches.\n\n\n This beautifully illustrated book written by marine biologist Helen Scales is the perfect companion for all aspiring shell spotters.

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EAN: 9781472911384
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'A rewarding glimpse of another world' THE GUARDIAN\n\nSeashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient and successful animals on the planet, and they have fascinating tales to tell. Spirals in Time charts the course of shells through history, from the first jewelry and the oldest currencies through to their use as potent symbols of sex and death, prestige and war, not to mention a nutritious (and tasty) source of food. \n\nIn this book, Helen Scales leads us on a journey into the realm of these undersea marvels. She goes in search of everything from snails that 'fly' underwater to octopuses accused of stealing shells and giant mussels with golden beards.\n\nShells are also bellwethers of our impact on the natural world. The effects of overfishing and pollution are, of course, serious concerns, but perhaps more worrying is ocean acidification, which causes shells to simply melt away. Spirals in Time urges you to ponder how seashells can reconnect us with nature, and heal the rift between ourselves and the living world.\n\nOne of the books of the year - Nature, Guardian, The Economist, The Times

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EAN: 9781399602785
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Dive beneath the waves to meet 80 of the ocean's strangest and most surprising inhabitants.\n\nThis beautifully illustrated aquatic world tour tells the fascinating stories of beguiling sea creatures and their ingenious feats of survival - from producing anti-freeze to enduring boiling temperatures - revealing the ways in which these seemingly remote creatures have shaped our own lives, whether through medicine, culture or folklore.\n\nAround the Ocean in 80 Fish and Other Sea Life is a timely and gorgeous celebration of our watery world and the marvellous creatures that call it home.

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EAN: 9781838740931
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Tasked with observing and protecting the islands' amazing wildlife, the scientists will track and study the animals and plants that are unique to this incredible archipelago.\n\nTo get the job done they will climb volcanoes, get sneezed on by marine iguanas, watch dancing birds, launch a deep-diving submersible and explore the dazzling underwater wonders of Galapagos.

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EAN: 9788867228126
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Se mai esiste un luogo al mondo che al nostro sguardo appare dominato dalla fantasia e dal sogno, è quello celato sotto le onde del mare. Fra scienza e antropologia, letteratura ed ecologia, Helen Scales ci guida in un tuffo rapinoso nell'universo oceanico, per incontrare 80 creature capaci di adattarsi da millenni alle condizioni più avverse e di evolversi in una sgargiante moltitudine di forme e di colori: dal piccolo granchio pugile al fluttuare maestoso delle mante, fino al regno del drago di mare, talmente nero che è quasi impossibile fotografarlo. Età di lettura: da 8 anni.

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La Vita Segreta Delle Conchiglie - Scales Helen - L'Ippocampo

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Brand: Nick Hornby;hannah Higham;helen Pheby
EAN: 9781910221242
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Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London) is one of the leading sculptors of his generation in Britain today, creating works on both intimate and monumental scales, and at the intersection of art history and contemporary technology. Hornby’s practice uses software that allows him to extract, alter and hybridise sculptures from art history into new works made from marble, steel, bronze, resin, wood and composite materials. It could be said that Hornby has opened up a new sculptural language for the twenty-first century.\n\nThis, his first major monograph, features approximately 175 images, many of which are reproduced here for the first time or have been commissioned for the publication. Alongside documentation of works presented in galleries and outdoor spaces are production images taken in the studio and fabrication workshops. Hornby’s practice is here divided into four categories: Intersections, Extrusions, Hydrographics and Collaborations.\n\nA foreword by Luke Syson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, offers insight into Hornby’s internal and external relationship with sculpture, considering the links between two and three dimensions, abstraction and representation, the ‘real’ and the digital.\n\nEditor Matt Price’s introduction takes readers on a whistlestop tour of the artist’s oeuvre, from his early family life and studies at Chelsea and The Slade in London, to his latest major exhibitions and commissions. Price covers a range of significant aspects such as the importance of music and sound, which were key elements of Hornby’s early work, to sculptures made in collaboration with others, and recent pieces combining art history with technology in their design and fabrication.\n\nAn essay by Dr Hannah Higham, Senior Curator of Collections and Research at the Henry Moore Foundation, provides the most substantial piece of critical writing on Hornby’s work to date, drawing out specific touchstones in the history of art and discussing the relationship between the work and time. Higham further explores the ways that the motion and position of the viewer alter the experience of the sculptures, with new angles revealing fresh artistic inspirations from Hans Arp or Elizabeth Frink to ideas from communities Hornby has worked with and other contemporary artists with whom he has collaborated.\n\nAn interview with Dr Helen Pheby, Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, probes the artist further about his cultural and theoretical inspirations, methods, materials and ideologies, including his views on collaboration, the public nature of art and its accessibility. Their conversation provides an insight into the thinking of the artist at a crucial stage in his career.\n\nThe monograph brings together works spanning Hornby’s career for the first time. It follows Hornby’s first institutional solo exhibition at MOSTYN, Wales, and his first permanent outdoor sculptural commission for Harlow Science Park in Essex.\n\nThe publication is edited...

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Brand: Kristy Hamilton
EAN: 9781771648196
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A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild. \n\n\n\"Delightful.\"-The Guardian\n\n\n\n\n\n\"Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this.\"-Publishers Weekly STARRED Review\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen astronomers wanted a telescope that could capture X-rays from celestial bodies, they looked to the lobster. When doctors wanted a medication that could stabilize Type II diabetic patients, they found their muse in a lizard. When scientists wanted to drastically reduce emissions in cement manufacturing, they observed how corals construct their skeletons in the sea. This is biomimicry in action: taking inspiration from nature to tackle human challenges.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Nature's Wild Ideas, Kristy Hamilton goes behind the scenes of some of our most unexpected innovations. She traverses frozen waterfalls, treks through cloudy forests, discovers nests in the Mojave desert, scours intertidal zones and takes us to the deepest oceans and near volcanoes to introduce us to the animals and plants that have inspired everything from cargo routing systems to non-toxic glues, and the men and women who followed that first spark of \"I wonder\" all the way to its conclusion, sometimes against all odds. \n\n\n\n\n\nWhile the joy of scientific discovery is front and center, Nature's Wild Ideas is also a love letter to nature-complete with a deep message of conservation: If we are to continue learning from the creatures around us, we must protect their untamed homelands.

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EAN: 9781778401121
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A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild.\n\n\"Delightful.\"—The Guardian\n\n\"Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this.\"—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review\n\nWhen astronomers wanted a telescope that could capture X-rays from celestial bodies, they looked to the lobster. When doctors wanted a medication that could stabilize Type II diabetic patients, they found their muse in a lizard. When scientists wanted to drastically reduce emissions in cement manufacturing, they observed how corals construct their skeletons in the sea. This is biomimicry in action: taking inspiration from nature to tackle human challenges.\n\nIn Nature’s Wild Ideas, Kristy Hamilton goes behind the scenes of some of our most unexpected innovations. She traverses frozen waterfalls, treks through cloudy forests, discovers nests in the Mojave desert, scours intertidal zones and takes us to the deepest oceans and near volcanoes to introduce us to the animals and plants that have inspired everything from cargo routing systems to non-toxic glues, and the men and women who followed that first spark of “I wonder” all the way to its conclusion, sometimes against all odds.\n\nWhile the joy of scientific discovery is front and center, Nature’s Wild Ideas is also a love letter to nature—complete with a deep message of conservation: If we are to continue learning from the creatures around us, we must protect their untamed homelands.

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