Product Description: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate...read more

Traces the development of oceanography as a science and explores the organisms living in the deep ocean, underwater mountains, and the major currents of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Product Description: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate...read more

Understanding the Oceans brings together an internationally distinguished group of authors to consider the enormous advances in marine science that have been achieved since the voyages of HMS Challenger a century ago. The whole book draws inspiration from the seminal contribution made by the research conducted on those voyages, and each contributor considers the significance of the findings, relating them to the exciting developments of today and tomorrow.Covering the whole spectrum of the marine sciences, the book has been written and edited very much with the non-specialist reader in mind. Marine scientists, whether students or researchers, will welcome this authoritative sweep through the history of their subject through to the present day; other scientists will find the book to be an accessible and informative introduction to marine science and its historical roots. (view table of contents)

Recalling three centuries of natural history exploration, this well-documented retrospective of a fascinating history features more than three hundred works of art, including maps and rare drawings, as well as the action-filled stories of Captain Cook, Charles Darwin, and many others. (view table of contents)

A comprehensive illustrated survey of the oceans and ocean life discusses theories and discoveries dealing with man's relationship with the sea and its creatures