New Titles December 2023
Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology by Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780813070506Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776) by Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9789004542709Publication Date: 2023-07-13
A Meeting of Land and Sea by Call Number: QH105.M4 F67 2017ISBN: 9780300214178Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- A Meeting of Land and Sea by Call Number: QH105.M4 F67 2017ISBN: 9780300214178Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology by Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780813070506Publication Date: 2023-09-19
- Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776) by Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9789004542709Publication Date: 2023-07-13
Spotlight
Below is a short selection of new eBooks from other UConn Library collections that support the information/research needs of UConn Avery Point.
You can find other eBooks by navigating to the UConn Library search page, clicking the drop down menu that reads "Articles and Library Catalog" (next to the microphone and magnifying glass icon), and then selecting "E-Books". When you search your preferred topic, each result will be an eBook.
Spotlight Gallery - December 2023
Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape
Sounding the Indian Ocean is the first volume to integrate the fields of ethnomusicology and Indian Ocean studies. Drawing on historical and ethnographic approaches, the book explores what music reveals about mobility, diaspora, colonialism, religious networks, media, and performance. Collectively, the chapters examine different ways the Indian Ocean might be "heard" outside of a reliance on colonial archives and elite textual traditions, integrating methods from music and sound studies into the history and anthropology of the region. Challenging the area studies paradigm-which has long cast Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as separate musical cultures-the book shows how music both forms and crosses boundaries in the Indian Ocean world.
A Journey Through Tides
A Journey Through Tides is a fully comprehensive text on the history of tides. It brings together geology and oceanography and discusses, in detail, new ideas that have emerged about how tectonics and tides interact. In addition, the book provides an overview of Earth's history, from the perspective of tidal changes, while also highlighting other fascinating phenomena (e.g., solid Earth tides and links between tides and earthquakes). Sections cover an introduction to tides for oceanography students and scientists from other disciplines, cover the Earth's deep time processes, and include several case studies of specific topics/processes that apply to a earth science disciplines. There are many other processes that drive and modify the tides, hence this book also describes why there is a tide, how it has changed since Earth's early days, and what consequences the tides, and changes in the tides, have on other parts of the Earth system.
Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton
Ocean Bestiary tells the history of our relationship with the sea, one animal at a time, from A to Z. From the earliest Polynesian navigators to the pilots of deep-sea submersibles today, humans have been exploring the globe's most dominant and inaccessible ecosystem and bringing home to those ashore breathtaking accounts of what they observed. Jumping off from the stories of whalemen, pirates, explorers, immigrants, naturalists, writers, painters, and cruiser-sailors-some famous, some entirely unknown and unpublished-this little book examines and shares what it was they saw. Ocean Bestiary crosses a range of geographies and oceanic environments, from shallows to depths and including coral reefs, upwelling zones, and more. It covers an equally wide range of organisms as well, from tiny zooplankton to immense whales. In playful prose, Richard J. King unfurls his stories and their relevance today for our understanding of environmental history, the history of marine biology, and our shifting perceptions of the ocean.
