The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it matters. All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight…

If you like book The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern worl…
Buy this book on Amazon
Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes

Buy this book on Amazon
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean

Buy this book on Amazon
The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth

Buy this book on Amazon
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to l…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilitie…
Buy this book on Amazon
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the number and quality of the…
Buy this book on Amazon
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy — and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple ques…
Buy this book on Amazon
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Staff Favorite of 2023 • A New Yorker B…
Buy this book on Amazon
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.

Marcia Bjornerud’s life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary…
Buy this book on Amazon
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than…
Buy this book on Amazon
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches--from an acclaimed Scientific American and Atlantic contributor

Far from being a lif…
Buy this book on Amazon
Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform…
Buy this book on Amazon
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways

Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become th…
Buy this book on Amazon
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind

In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Ca…
Buy this book on Amazon
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago, by a brilliant young paleobiologist

The past is past, but it does leav…
Buy this book on Amazon
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

Buy this book on Amazon
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators

Buy this book on Amazon
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

A Nobel Prize–winning scientist reveals biology’s most transformative achievements in decades―a Double Helix for the dawning of the RNA age. Over the last half century, a quiet revolution has taken pl…
Buy this book on Amazon
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

Buy this book on Amazon