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64 st / October 2015 www.sea-technology.com Ocean Country: One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest to Save the Seas By Liz Cunningham Paperback. 376 pp. North Atlantic. $12.71 An adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic medita- tion on the state of the seas, Ocean Country is the story of fnding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest cri- ses to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, Liz Cunningham crisscrosses the globe in an effort to understand the threats to our daz- zling but endangered oceans. This intimate account charts her thrilling journey through unexpected encounters with conservationists, fshermen, sea nomads, and scientists in the Mediterranean, Sulawesi, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Papua, New Guinea. Tsunamis in the Pacifc Ocean: 2011-2012 Edited by Alexander Rabinovich, Jose C. Borrero, and Her- mann M. Fritz Paperback. 366 pp. Springer. $74.99 The 2011 Tohoku earthquake generated a catastrophic tsu- nami that killed nearly 20,000 people along the coast of Japan and caused the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The tsunami propagated throughout the Pacifc Ocean and also affected many other countries, including Russia, the U.S., New Zealand, French Polynesia and Chile, demonstrating once again the terrible threat that tsunami waves pose for Pacifc countries and the need for basin-wide international scientifc collaboration. Following a brief introduction, this volume presents 21 sci- entifc papers, including 12 on aspects of the 2011 Tohoku event. The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future Of Rising Sea Levels By Brian Fagan Hardcover. 288 pp. Bloomsbury Press. $21.85 This book tells a tale of the rising complexity of the relation- ship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps; a com- plexity created by humans. What has changed is us, and the number of us on Earth. Coastal Ocean Observing Systems Edited by Yonggang Liu, Heather Kerkering, and Robert H. Weisberg Paperback. 490 pp. Academic Press. $123.34 Coastal Ocean Observing Systems provides state-of-the-art scientifc and technological knowledge on these systems, along with guidance on establishing, restructuring, and improving similar systems. The book is intended to help oceanographers understand, identify, and recognize how oceanographic research feeds into the various designs of ocean-observing systems. In addition, readers will learn how ocean-observing systems are defned and how each system operates in relation to its geographical, environmen- tal, and political region. ST books Featuring the government and industry news you need to know, Sea Tech e-News delivers timely information straight to your inbox, with details on recent product releases, updates on new hires and promotion, and workshops. We send out the newsletter every other week, so you'll get a steadystream of news edited down to what matters most. Sign up today at www.sea-technology.com to receive your FREE bi-weekly electronic newsletter