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By understanding how the ocean works, and its essential role in our global system, we can learn how to protect our blue machine.All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way. 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' . We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

If you have an interest in the natural world, the climate and oceans then this is a book I would definitely recommend.

Moving and thrilling, The Blue Machine tells us about the seas but also makes us care: an epic love story that captures the ocean’s beating heart. Dr George McGavin, zoologist, entomologist and broadcaster'A fascinating dive into the essential engine that drives our world. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Helen regularly presents BBC programmes on physics, the ocean and the atmosphere – recent series include Colour: The Spectrum of Science, Orbit, Operation Iceberg, Super Senses, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, as well as programmes on bubbles, the sun and our weather. All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Helen Czerski, urging us to see the ocean as a presence, not an absence, has done a remarkable job of shoehorning an overview of the whole shebang into a single, very readable volume.I haven't actually finished reading this book yet but I am so loving it that I can't hold back from telling everyone! She has been a science columnist for the Wall Street Journal since 2017 and she is the author of the bestselling Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life , Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book, and Blue Machine: how the ocean shapes our world . 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.

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. Drawing on years of experience at the forefront of marine science, Helen Czerski captures the magnitude and subtlety of this complex force, showing us the thrilling extent to which we are at the mercy of this great engine. This book reminds us that we are the crew (not passengers) of a blue planet and explains in such beautiful detail how the functioning of those oceans (the blue machine in Helen’s words) is absolutely crucial to the continued health of every life form on the planet. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.Reading this book has made me realise just how much the oceans do to keep our planet at the right temperature for life to exist and function. From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she explains the vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their place in the ocean’s complex, interlinked system. I went into this book curious about our oceans, but not seeing them and a book talking about them as a particularly important topic. Zudem begeisterten mich die vielen spannenden Details über das Leben im Ozean, zum Beispiel die Tatsache, dass Pinguine für zwei Wochen 400 km von ihrem Nistplatz zum Fressplatz schwimmen, während der Partner/Partnerin (hungernd) beim Brüten ausharrt, bis er/sie an der Reihe ist.