"An Ocean View" is a small gem filled with all the big concepts about the ocean. It's an ideal primer for understanding the ocean's physical, geological, and biological forces. Dr. Russo has accomplished the admirable feat of condensing and enormous amount of detail and presents the science of oceanography in language for the general reader. If you want to broaden your understanding of our planet, which is over 70% water, then this small book is a good place to start!

I liked this book because it offered me an excellent overview of the state of the global ecosystem from an oceanography perspective. As a concerned nonscientist, the concise and clearly written nontechnical summary of oceanography allowed me to appreciate the severe environmental stresses on our planet from that viewpoint.

Ungar's book is a wonderful retelling of the Pentagon Papers controversy, from start to finish. It follows the stories of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the documents, the New York Times reporters and editors who worked with them (in a secret location, for fear of Nixon's government), and the compelling legal battle that followed their publication, reaffirming some of our most basic First Amendment rights. If you want to read just one book on the Pentagon Papers, this should be it.