Discover the incredible abundance and variety of plants and animals that make the ocean their home-from deep, dark trenches, to lush, tropical atolls. Also learn about the currents, cycles, and life of the ocean itself, and how the health of the ocean affects life everywhere on the planet
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Fiction literature | 17 November 2008
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When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean he confronts an unconscious memory of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet are plagued with their own memories and scientists think the ocean may be a brain that creates these memories...
Stanisław Lem was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.
A set of books by Stanisław Lem added Thanks to biGBrother!
Blue Ocean Strategy is a business strategy book that promotes a systematic approach "for making the competition irrelevant."
It contains retrospective case studies and suggests theoretical
approaches to creating "blue oceans" of uncontested market space ripe
for growth. The book has sold more than a million copies in its first
year of publication and is being published in 39 languages.
Why study the Physics of the ocean?
The answer depends on our interests, which devolve from our use of the ocean. Three broad themes are important:
We get food from the ocean. Hence we may be interested in processes which influence the sea just as farmers are interested in the weather and climate. The ocean not only has weather such as temperature changes and currents, but the oceanic weather fertilizes the sea. The atmospheric weather seldom fertilizes fields except for the small amount of nitrogen fixed by lightning.
2. We use the ocean. We build structures on the shore or just offshore. We use the ocean for transport. We obtain oil and gas below the ocean. And, we use the ocean for recreation, swimming, boating, fishing, surfing, and diving. Hence we are interested in processes that influence these activities, especially waves, winds, currents, and temperature.
3. The ocean influence the atmospheric weather and climate. The ocean influence the distribution of rainfall, droughts, floods, regional climate, and the development of storms, hurricanes, and typhoons. Hence we are interested in air-sea interactions, especially the fluxes of heat and water across the sea surface, the transport of heat by the ocean, and the influence of the ocean on climate and weather patterns.
Introduces students to the topic of weather and natural disasters while delving into the scientific aspects of various types of disasters including: blizzards, earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, volcanoes, and wildfires. Attention is given to recent natural disasters such as: Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Philippine mudslide.
