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The Rising Sea by Orrin Pilkey Publisher Comments On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Reef Secrets by Alf Jacob Nilsen Publisher Comments A fresh approach to setting up and stocking a reef aquarium.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $20.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Naturalist's Guide to the Atlantic Seashore: Beach Ecology from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras by Scott Shumway Publisher Comments Explore the Beach A Naturalist’s Guide to the Atlantic Seashore is the ultimate guide to the diverse eco-systems of the Atlantic Coast from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras. From the tiniest diatom found in coastal tide pools to the giant baleen... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sandcastles: Great Projects: From Mermaids to Monuments by Patti Mitchell Publisher Comments Sandcastles is the ultimate guide to the ultimate summer pastime--playing in the sand. Featuring the wonderful photographs of Frankie Frankeny (Snowmen), Sandcastles includes over 30 sand sculptures from the whimsical to the majestic, complete with easy... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Spiral
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Extreme Waves by Craig B. Smith Publisher Comments "Extreme Waves" is a fascinating history of waves. Covering both the headline stories as well as incidents that are less well-known but equally startling Craig Smith, author and amateur sailor, will have you riveted from the first chapter to the last.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stellwagen: The Making and Unmaking of a National Marine Sanctuary by Peter Borrelli Publisher Comments The Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay, only twenty-five miles east of Boston. The area's nutrient-rich waters attract a cornucopia of sea life--which in turn supports both recreational... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean by Robert William Butler Publisher Comments The verdant coastline from northern California to southeast Alaska bursts into a rich hue of jade green when the sun emerges from behind a brooding canopy of cloud. This is the Jade Coast - brooding in winter, sparkling in summer and always abounding... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels by Orrin H Pilkey Publisher Comments Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder by Gary Greenberg Publisher Comments Every grain of sand is a jewel waiting to be discovered. That’s what Dr. Gary Greenberg found when he first turned his specially designed 3-D microscope on beach sand. Gemlike mineral grains, colorful coral fragments, and delicate microscopic... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline (Living with the Shore) by Wallace Kaufman Publisher Comments Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you--all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.80 Used - Trade Paper
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Coast: From the Air by Neil Oliver Publisher Comments The British Isles are magnificent places, filled with endlessly fascinating sights, stories, and people, and they are defined and shaped by their coast. Hundreds of spectacular photographs in this book hint at the wonder of the ever-changing place where... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Seaside Reader by Dery Bennett Publisher Comments Seacoasts have inspired writers everywhere, spawning an impressive and entertaining body of literature. Here is an anthology featuring writers as diverse as Jacques Cousteau and Norman Mailer, with selections on the places, people, and creatures that... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.20 Used - Trade Paper
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Sandtiquity: Architectural Marvels You Can Build at the Beach by Malcolm Wells Publisher Comments Clear instructions and step-by-step color photos make it easy to achieve incredible results for building architectural marvels at the beach. 200 color photos.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living with the Changing California Coast by Gary B Griggs Publisher Comments Crowded into the beautiful, narrow strip at the edge of the ocean, the large number of people who live near California's dynamic coastline often have little awareness of the hazards--waves, tides, wind, storms, rain, and runoff--that erode and impact the... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $13.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Pacific Coast (Audubon Guide) by Bayard Mcconnaughey Publisher Comments A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the birds, plants, fishes, insects, seashore creatures, and other natural wonders of North America's western shores, from Alaska to southern California.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living with the South Carolina Coast (Living with the Shore) by Gered Lennon Publisher Comments Living with the South Carolina Coast is the latest volume in the Living with the Shore series that comprehensively investigates the status of a specific state's coastal region. Completely revising a previously published work in the series that dealt with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlantic & Gulf coasts by William Amos Publisher Comments A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the birds, plants, fishes, insects, seashore creatures, and other natural wonders of North America's eastern shores, from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coastlines of the Caribbean by Gillian Cambers Book News Annotation Papers presented at Coastal Zone 91, July 1991. Some of the topics covered include environmental considerations, engineering and science; data gathering and monitoring; legal, regulatory, and political aspects of coastal management; planning... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coastlines of Japan by Yoshimi Nagao Book News Annotation Papers presented at Coastal Zone 91, July 1991, cover topics including environmental considerations, engineering, and science; data gathering and monitoring; legal, regulatory, and political aspects of coastal management; planning, conservation, and... (read more) Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Coasts by Richard A Davis Book News Annotation A core textbook for an undergraduate course in coasts, or a supplement for a course in general oceanography with an expanded section on coasts; also provides a good reference for related courses in physical geography or coastal engineering or... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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