Filter By Subjects
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 Juvenile literature California, Gulf of (Mexico) Description and travel Cooking Mexico, Gulf of Gulf of Mexico Marine invertebrates Mexico California, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Ricketts, Edward Flanders 1897-1948 Travel Mexico California, Gulf of Steinbeck, John 1902-1968 Travel Mexico California, Gulf of SurfingFilter By Subjects
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 Juvenile literature California, Gulf of (Mexico) Description and travel Cooking Mexico, Gulf of Gulf of Mexico Marine invertebrates Mexico California, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Ricketts, Edward Flanders 1897-1948 Travel Mexico California, Gulf of Steinbeck, John 1902-1968 Travel Mexico California, Gulf of SurfingDavis, Jack E.
Summary: Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 DAVSummary: In March 1940, a journey taken by John Steinbeck and his friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, down the coast of California, expanded from a trip meant to document the creatures that inhabit the shallow water and tide pools on the margins of the Sea of Cortez into a large philosophical exploration of mankind's relationship to the natural world. This documentary considers how that journey can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOUSummary: The ultimate guide for visitors and locals looking to spend time in Northwest Florida’s Gulf of Mexico. This guidebook provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of beaches, shipwrecks, shore-accessible dive and snorkel reefs, and the top surfing sites in the area. Detailed descriptions and map art. With the help of Reef Smart’s unique 3D-mapping technology, learn all you need to know...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing Group 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.59 FLORIDA REESteinbeck, John
Summary: This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Annotation. In 1940, Steinbeck and his friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, ventured into the Gulf of California to search for marine invertebrates along the beaches. This...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.3164 SteinTougias, Mike
Summary: "A riveting WWII account of survival at sea-Book 4 in the True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Steinbeck, John
Summary: This second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC STEINFarrell, Courtney.
Summary: Explains the causes behind the BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill; the effect on workers, animals, and the environment; and what is being done to help the Gulf Coast recover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7382 FARJacobs, Daniel
Summary: Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and killed eleven people. The resulting offshore oil discharge, the largest ever in the United States, polluted much of the Gulf for months, wreaking havoc on its inhabitants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.8 JACMorgan, Nina.
Summary: Covers the geography, climate, resources, and history of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico regions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson Learning 1996
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 917.2 MORWynne, Kate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhode Island Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.5 WYNSummary: On April 20, 2010, communities throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States were devastated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a state-of-the-art offshore oil rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. In this documentary film, the director travels to small towns and major cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of the disaster on the people of the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GREArtist Not Provided
Summary: Follows environmental scientists, activists, undercover investigators, and others who are fighting to save the habitat of the critically endangered vaquita porpoise from destruction by Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEAWaterman, Jonathan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1224 WATLandau, Elaine.
Summary: Presents facts about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began on April 20, 2010.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7382 LANWhite, Randy Wayne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 WHISnow, Constance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SNOJenkins, Peter
Summary: The author describes his experiences during the two years he spent walking across the United States, from Alfred, New York, to the Gulf of Mexico.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1979
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 JENMikoley, Kate.
Summary: "Latin America is home to both the amazing Amazon rain forest and areas of desert where rain has never been recorded. Readers will learn about the varied landscapes of Latin America, from the Atacama Desert to the brilliant Caribbean coasts to the awesome Andes Mountains. In learning about major cities, such as Mexico City, readers will discover the ways people have changed the Earth to fit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 918.02 MIKSummary: Five friends travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes and canoes to explore the potential impacts of a border wall on the natural environment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RIVBouler, Olivia.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Olivia Bouler has drawn and illustrated a brief guide to endangered birds in an effort use book sales to contribute to the clean-up expenses for the oil contamination of the Gulf of Mexico.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598 BOUHarmon, Daniel E.
Summary: Describes the journey of two Frenchman and five other men down the Mississippi River to discover the river flows into the Gulf of Mexico not the Pacific Ocean as believed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 977.01 HARHolling, Holling Clancy
Summary: Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1951
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.92 HOLVulliamy, Ed.
Summary: Amexica is a street-level portrait of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border--"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"--as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, journalist Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.45 VULSummary: Takes you from the terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters of the Gulf of Mexico (where waves are created by massive oil supertankers) to the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Told trough the voices of legends, pros, and everyday surfers alike, it is not a film just for surfers, but for anyone with an appreciation for sport and an inkling of what it means to be "stoked."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004