Glass Squid and Other Spectacular Squid
Title | Glass Squid and Other Spectacular Squid PDF eBook |
Author | Casey Rand |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1410941949 |
This book briefly examines the life and behaviors of glass squids, and other squids of the deep ocean.
Giant Tube Worms and Other Interesting Invertebrates
Title | Giant Tube Worms and Other Interesting Invertebrates PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Moore |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 141094199X |
This book examines giant tube worms, along with other invertebrates, that live in the deep ocean.
Deep-Sea Anglerfish and Other Fearsome Fish
Title | Deep-Sea Anglerfish and Other Fearsome Fish PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Lynette |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1410941957 |
This book examines the life and behaviors of the deep-sea anglerfishes.
Bluntnose Sixgill Sharks and Other Strange Sharks
Title | Bluntnose Sixgill Sharks and Other Strange Sharks PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Lynette |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1410942031 |
This volume examines the types and behaviors of blunt nosed, sixgill sharks.
A Sea of Glass
Title | A Sea of Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Drew Harvell |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2016-05-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0520961110 |
"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal "Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The Guardian Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category It started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell’s eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, the octopus belonged to a menagerie of unusual marine creatures that had been packed away for decades in a storage unit. More than 150 years earlier, the Blaschkas had been captivated by marine invertebrates and spun their likenesses into glass, documenting the life of oceans untouched by climate change and human impacts. Inspired by the Blaschkas’ uncanny replicas, Harvell set out in search of their living counterparts. In A Sea of Glass, she recounts this journey of a lifetime, taking readers along as she dives beneath the ocean's surface to a rarely seen world, revealing the surprising and unusual biology of some of the most ancient animals on the tree of life. On the way, we glimpse a century of change in our ocean ecosystems and learn which of the living matches for the Blaschkas’ creations are, indeed, as fragile as glass. Drew Harvell and the Blaschka menagerie are the subjects of the documentary Fragile Legacy, which won the Best Short Film award at the 2015 Blue Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit. Learn more about the film and check out the trailer here.
Amazing World Sea Creatures
Title | Amazing World Sea Creatures PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Martin |
Publisher | becker&mayer! kids |
Pages | 51 |
Release | 2017-09-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0760355363 |
Some ocean animals have the incredible ability to make their own light! Amazing World: Sea Creatures shows off twenty of these unique animals with facts and photos. From the lanternfish, to the Atolla jellyfish, to the glowing bioluminescent octopus, the ocean is filled with animals that gleam and glow. Go on an electrifying journey to see how these living lights use bioluminescence, fluorescence, and symbiotic bacteria to light up! Amazing World: Sea Creatures reveals the fascinating lives of strange and amazing marine animals. This beautifully illustrated and photographed book for kids explores twenty incredible creatures you'll only find under the sea. You will learn how each of these underwater animals create their own light, and how they put it to good use. Is that wasn't enough, Amazing World: Sea Creatures even includes a sheet of glow in the dark stickers! You won't believe all the cool, beautiful, and sometimes downright weird animals that live under the ocean. They're not aliens, they're sea creatures!
Squid
Title | Squid PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Wallen |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2020-10-14 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1789143330 |
In myths and legends, squids are portrayed as fearsome sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps waiting to devour humans. Even as modern science has tried to turn those monsters of the deep into unremarkable calamari, squids continue to dominate the nightmares of the Western imagination. Taking inspiration from early weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, modern writers such as Jeff VanderMeer depict squids as the absolute Other of human civilization, while non-Western poets such as Daren Kamali depict squids as anything but threats. In Squid, Martin Wallen traces the many different ways humans have thought about and pictured this predatory mollusk: as guardians, harbingers of environmental collapse, or an untapped resource to be exploited. No matter how we have perceived them, squids have always gazed back at us, unblinking, from the dark.