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Author
Series
Doc Ford ; 27
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don’t think it’s a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin's Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Brotherhood mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane. No one, however, is prepared for a cataclysmic event that will forever change the...
2) In ascension
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The story of one woman's remarkable work with a trio of charismatic, endangered bird species-and her discoveries about the devastating threats that imperil them. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we've made--including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction--have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps-not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. In this engaging and moving book, Grant tells the story of her life and career-from her childhood love of nature in England's Lake District to an undergraduate education at the University...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring nonfiction picture book about Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? and Elizabeth Leads the Way"--
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, a team of researchers carefully removed a plastic straw from a sea turtle's nostril off the coast of Costa Rica. The disturbing incident, which was captured on video, went viral, leading to corporate straw bans around the world. In this evocative book, the marine biologist behind the camera, Christine Figgener, recounts her own life spent studying and protecting sea turtles. Figgener describes patrolling the beach at night, swimming with...
Author
Publisher
Big Digger Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ever thought of moving to a tropical island and reimagining your life? Our stories are lost too soon, and we leave few trails. A curiosity about his family ancestry, prompts a biologist to recount his journey finding the natural world and himself in the 1960's. Inspired by Rachel Carson, Edward O. Wilson, Jaques Cousteau and many others, a hippie by nature and a blue mind early in life, he is attracted to sea islands, their culture, history and ecology....
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