INVITATION TO OCEANOGRAPHY 4E: .

by Paul R. Pinet

The new Fourth Edition of Invitation to Oceanography provides students with a complete, concise overview of how the ocean works, spanning the four major divisions of ocean geology, chemistry, physics, and biology. It's informal, conversational style and use of familiar analogies make this text appropriate for a broad range of readers. With cutting-edge material, including such hot topics as Hurricane Katrina, and a wealth of new updates and end of chapter material, Pinet's latest edition is the most up-to-date text available!

Genres: Science, School, Textbooks

596 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 1997

Reviews

[Imogen Osinibi]

Surprisingly accessible to people who know little about the subject and very easy to read which is rare for a textbook. Proving very useful and similar to the content I’m learning in my module which is brilliant. Also has lots of useful anecdotes and comparisons to make you understand the content easier. I find it funny though that it uses the word “apparently” so often like “apparently, this happens”.

[Daniel Watkins]

This is an excellent introduction to oceanography. It provides easy-to-read explanations of major areas of study from waves and seawater chemistry to ocean biology. It does a great job of bringing current/recent events into the story. There are a few tables that I’d like to see updated - for example, the ranking of sources of hydrocarbon pollutants is from a study from 1980. I think it’s likely some things have changed since then.

[Sidney Hartley]

This is an excellent text book. Anyone living near the ocean should read this book, or take an Oceanography class.

[Jane Francis]

Lots of pictures, last half of book is better than the first (explanations become clearer and more thorough). Overall, not bad.