Describes some of the research going on at Woods Hole, including investigations of the horseshoe crab, and explains how the study of marine life has added to our knowledge of the human nervous system

The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine

Science & Math

Sargent, William

Biological Sciences

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine

W. W. Norton & Company; Incorporated

Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay

Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay

Houghton/Mifflin

Night Reef: Dusk to Dawn on a Coral Reef

Visits a coral reef from dusk to dawn and examines the creatures that inhabit the reef at night and their activities.

Children's Books

Franklin Watts

Visits a coral reef from dusk to dawn and examines the creatures that inhabit the reef at night and their activities.

20,000 Years on the Merrimack River Starting at its headwaters in Franconia Notch, the Merrimack rushes 117 miles to its mouth in Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it also spans 20,000 years of history crucial to the development of the American continent and the United States. This book brims with the colorful characters and crucial events that set the United States on its present trajectory. It tells the story of Paleo- Indians hunting migrating caribou on the river's shores. It tells of the Great Pine Tree Riot that kicked off the American Revolution and the China trade that provided the country luxury and capital. It tells the story of the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack that changed Navel warfare and the river's mills that led to the industrial procedures we still practice today. Finally it shows how wastes from industries like tanning, lumbering and humans themselves have accumulated in the river and points towards innovative ways to return the Merrimack to its once clean and pristine state.

20,000 Years on the Merrimack River

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Strawberry Hill Press

Noted science writer William Sargent delves into the murky, often intertwined worlds of medical research and biological warfare to determine if Covid-19 was caused by accidents similar to those that have occurred from 1617 to the present. Sargent reveals that mistakes made in dual use medical research and biological weapons facilities led to tick borne diseases in the United States, smallpox, anthrax and other germ outbreaks in Russia. He helps unearth the factors that caused Covid-19, closing with the hope that these conditions will be altered or permanently banned in the future.

Terror by Error? The COVID Chronicles

History & Philosophy

In 2018 William Sargent finished his fourth book about the politics of erosion on Plum Island and needed to clear his head. So he decided to embark on a series of rambles from New Hampshire to Gloucester, Massachusetts. His purpose was to investigate the natural history of this beautiful coast. But as so happens when writing about natural history today he ended up discovering a troubling new environmental catastrophe, the die-offs of whales, seals and shorebirds from the buildup of chemicals that have been steadily accumulating in the lungs of the planet--our oceans.

North of Boston- Whales and Tales

On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it was only the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between man and nature on this fragile barrier beach. Plum Island takes readers to the core of the earth to see how Plum Island’s sands were first formed in the metamorphic forge of the earth’s interior. It will then follow these minerals as they erode off the sides of New Hampshire’s Ice Age Mountains and then wash down the proto Merrimack River to form Plum Island. It will chronicle the lives of the Wooly Mammoth, Paleo-Indians, fishermen, farmers, sand miners and rum runners who made a good but hard living on this rugged island in the past and the homeowners, lawyers and scientists who are locked in present battles about its future. In the end, Plum Island puts a human face on the larger story of how coastal communities must inevitably come to grips with the impact of Sea level rise on our ever-warming planet.

Plum Island; 4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach

Plum Island is a living laboratory to study the effects of storms, climate change and sea level rise. This book chronicles the events of 2016 when island residents started turning away from fighting the Atlantic Ocean and the Army Corps of Engineers to working with nature to slow erosion. It tells the engaging story of people lives being transformed by nature, science and our rapidly evolving environment. This is the third book in a series about the changing face of Plum Island that includes, "Islands in the Storm," "Plum Island; 4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach" and "Plum Island 2016."

Plum Island 2016

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Sargent, William. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Sargent, William

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Sargent, William. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

The Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine

Year of the Crab: Marine Animals in Modern Medicine

Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay

Night Reef: Dusk to Dawn on a Coral Reef

Night Reef: Dusk to Dawn on a Coral Reef

20,000 Years on the Merrimack River

Terror by Error? The COVID Chronicles

North of Boston- Whales and Tales

Plum Island; 4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach

Plum Island 2016