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Summary: A Really Good Book
Review: A really good "eye-opener". This is the third copy I've bought. How blissfully unaware most of us are about what is going on around us. This book might encourage the latent environmental leanings in all of us.
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Summary: Ocean's End
Review: Balanced and written smartly, this book is impressive for its depth and scope of coverage. Moreover, Woodard's style of allowing the facts and science to speak above the opinions and guesses (which perhaps out number the former) is compelling. Excellence from a first-time author.
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Summary: excellent
Review: Colin Woodard is a very finr reporter. He does what we hope a fine reporter will do, takes us to places we cannot visit ourselves and makes us understand those places, and to see ourselves more clearly. I suppose that it is not entirely surprising that some of the finest reporting being done today is on what is certainly the most important issue now facing the planet: the degradation of our environment. My other favorite of the spring crop of books is Diana Muir's surprisingly delightful Bullough's Pond, Economy and Ecosystem. Read Woodard, the book is a pleasure and you will learn a thing or two along the way. What more could you ask for?
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Summary: One of the most devastating books I've read
Review: Each chapter in this book tells a story illustrating a different crisis, and each gives something new to be outraged over. The stories are well-written, and Ocean's End gives the best summary of global warming that I have read. It is easy to understand (making the reader feel almost intelligent). I would recommend this to everyone, and wish there was a way to get this into high school curricula.My only complaint is the summary. Woodard draws the reader's passions out, but doesn't suggest explicit ways to get involved in the issues. I ended up writing letters to my congressional representatives. Read this book, and start your own letter campaign.
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK
Review: Excellent research, good writing and exceptionally important issues. Anyone who would like to learn more about the oceans, how they function and how we are destroying this life source, should read this book. The author also expertly describes the intimate ties between climate change and the oceans. The publisher's are missing an opportunity by not supporting this work more; they are also not fulfilling their responsibility to the present and future generations of all living (and endangered) beasts.
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Summary: amazing book
Review: I loved the book. It amazes me why the publisher didn't do more to get it out there. The lack of attention for these important titles is a crime. Great work Colin
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Summary: A striking portrait of ecological disaster in the making.
Review: Ocean's End is an eyewitness account of the state of the world's oceans and provides readers with a call to action. The author spent well over a year traveling the world's seas and talking to fishermen, scientists, researchers and legislators alike. His account in Ocean's End provides a striking portrait of ecological disaster in the making.
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Summary: Coastal Policy Has Killed the Oceans!
Review: Ocean's End is one of the most compelling examples of how bad Coastal Zone policy has destroyed vast areas of ocean and shore. It is not too strong a point that human beings in recent history have behaved themselves very, very badly as they looted the seas and dumped their waste and industrial toxins down river or directly into the sea. I am using this book in my International Integrated Coastal Zone Management class as the first assigned textbook. (...) Why? Because I want my graduate students to first see how wonderful the world's oceans and coastal zones are and secondly, how incredibly stupid and short sighted we can be as we mismanage our responsibilities as stewards of these ecosystems. Colin Woodward has done a wonderful job of narrating a gripping, exciting, and enfuriating story from the killing of the Black Sea to the plundering of the Newfoundland Grand Banks and all of the other case studies in between. This is a book worth reading and also one that is compellingly interesting and enjoyable. Take it on your next trip or read it and then take my web-based graduate class in International Coastal Management. You'll be ahead of yourself!
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Summary: a fantastic read
Review: This is a beautifully written and informative book which clearly explains difficult scientific concepts and vividly illustrates a growing problem. Woodard effectively brings the reader inside the destinations he visits. A must read!
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Summary: One of the most devastating books I've read
Review: This is a great book. Thoughtful, balanced, readable. Buy two copies and give one to a friend.
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