Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

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This beautifully written, sweeping guide shows how the deep movement of the seas have ruled our lives in unexpected ways over millennia. Far from being homogenous, the water in our oceans varies in temperature, salinity and depth, among other things. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

Cerzski's personal experience of both Polynesian canoes off Hawaii and ice floes near the North Pole is not icing on the cake but part of the argument of this excellent and important book. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds, and the real threat it poses to humanity: "The best book I have ever read about AI" (New York Times bestselling author Rog . Dr George McGavin, zoologist, entomologist and broadcaster'A fascinating dive into the essential engine that drives our world.

As a physicist, she studies the bubbles generated by breaking waves in the ocean to understand their influence on weather and climate. The author does include science in this book, but it is explained in a way that is completely understandable to a non-science-brained person. Czerski argues throughout that to truly see the miraculous oceans, to understand and to feel our connection to them, is vital and integral to our history and our future. All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine.

The final part, Part 3 is " The Blue Machine and Us" This is the 1 section and it is about what we can do or should be doing. Gaia Vince, science journalist, broadcaster and author of Nomad Century All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. This is a delightful account of one of the deepest and most fascinating explorations going on today at the frontier of our knowledge.Alongside her vivid portrayal of waters sliding over one another, colliding, mixing andturning into ice or water vapour, she explains how the living beings within the sea alsoform part of the 'blue machine' . She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. By understanding how the ocean works, and its essential role in our global system, we can learn how to protect our blue machine. There seems to be no overall theme so the reader will probably come away remembering only some of the information. Some of the stories that she uses to illustrate the text are superb, like the ones dealing with underwater acoustic communicaton and how this relates to whales.

Aborda os tópicos com precisão mas numa contexto mais amplo, agradável de ler, com relato de experiências próprias de viagens, de modo a agradar mesmo uma clientela não especializada, sendo até mais direcionada para não especialistas que porém deverão apreciar esse modo de apresentação e mesmo aprender uma e outra coisa que provavelmente desconheciam. From vast currents and tides to the smallest creatures that inhabit our oceans she reveals the spellbinding wonder of the oceans.Ms Czerski is obviously very knowledgeable and passionate about her subject, particularly trying to get people to stop and think about the ocean and how vital it is to our continued wellbeing. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Blending marine biology, history and climate change concerns with novelistic skill, Blue Machine is a spellbinding exploration of the ocean – its complex, interlinked system and the multitude of ways life on the rest of the planet depends on it. Czerski’s fascinating new book casts the ocean as an extraordinary giant engine, and helps us grasp its complex physics and its key role in climate change.

Czerski's] profound, sparkling global ocean voyage mingles history and culture, natural history, geography, animals and people.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'This beautifully written, sweeping guide shows how the deep movement of the seas have ruled our lives in unexpected ways over millennia. Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). I haven't actually finished reading this book yet but I am so loving it that I can't hold back from telling everyone!