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Marine Biology Coloring Book 2ND Edition
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Marine Biology Coloring Book 2ND Edition
by Thomas M Niesen

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Enter the delicate, complex world of underwater life through extraordinarily detailed, hand-drawn illustrations and newly updated text. The Marine Biology Coloring Bookwill serve as an excellent resource and guide. The process of coloring will focus your...
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McClane's Field Guide to Saltwater Fishes of North America
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McClane's Field Guide to Saltwater Fishes of North America
by Albert Mcclane

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A. J. McClane profiles more than three hundred North American saltwater game fishes in this authoritative and fully illustrated handbook....
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King of Fish Thousand Year Run of Salmon
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King of Fish Thousand Year Run of Salmon
by David R Montgomery

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The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David...
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Corals: A Quick Reference Guide (Oceanographic Series)
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Corals: A Quick Reference Guide (Oceanographic Series)
by Julian Sprung

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Defines corals and distinguishes them from similar antipatharians, hydrozoans, zoanthids, and corallimorpharia. Shows many rare and unusual forms, including species new to science that have never been depicted in any other book.<P>Range extensions:...
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Snakehead: A Fish Out of Water
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Snakehead: A Fish Out of Water
by Eric Jay Dolin

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261) and index....
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
by Claire Nouvian

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The Deep is one of the most beautiful and bizarre books I've ever seen. You will not be able to put it down, and none of your friends will be able to resist picking it up. Recommended by Jill, Powells.com...
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The Founding Fish
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The Founding Fish
by John Mcphee

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John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver...
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
by Trevor Corson

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In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Revor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning...
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
by Trevor Corson

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In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning...
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Fieldbook of Pacific NW Sea Creatures
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Fieldbook of Pacific NW Sea Creatures
by Dan H Mclachlan

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Dan H. McLachlan and Jak Ayres describe over 200 common marine animals shown in their natural habitat with color photos. A short biography accompanies each species pictured, and its biology is explained. The animals are classified by the complexity of...
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An Assessment of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
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An Assessment of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
by National Research Co

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This book reviews and evaluates the scientific basis of U.S. management of fisheries for Atlantic bluefin tuna. In particular, it focuses on the issues of stock structure and stock assessments used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's...
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Rainbow Under the Sea
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Rainbow Under the Sea
by Jeffrey L Rotman

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Showcasing the exceptional photographs of one of today's foremost underwater photographers, this volume provides readers with a unique opportunity to explore the hidden crevices of the ocean world-close up. Using the technique of microphotography, award...
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Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species
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Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species
by Freeman House

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Part lyrical true-life adventure, part social and philosophical manifesto, TOTEM SALMON tells of a watershed community that worked for two decades to save one of the last purely native stocks of salmon in California....
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Marine Life of the Pacific and Indian Oceans (Periplus Nature Guides)
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Marine Life of the Pacific and Indian Oceans (Periplus Nature Guides)
by George Allen

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This handy reference book enables the diver to identify about 350 of the most colorful and most commonly encountered species. It provides a compact, comprehensive introduction to the region's coral reef inhabitants -- sponges, corals, jellyfish...
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Reefscape: Reflections on the Great Barrier Reef
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Reefscape: Reflections on the Great Barrier Reef
by Rosaleen Love

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By recounting both tales, "Reefscape" provides a window on the past and foreshadows the future of this extraordinary environment. "Reefscape" will illuminate the meaning of the human encounter with nature. It will inspire delight in the imagination and...
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Consider the Eel: A Natural and Gastronomic History
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Consider the Eel: A Natural and Gastronomic History
by Richard Schweid

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A culinary and cultural history of the eel and its importance in Europe and America....
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Consider the Eel
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Consider the Eel
by Richard Schweid

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In this entertaining and informative natural history of eels, Schweid explores how people around the world cook, eat, harvest, harm, protect, and study this fascinating creature....
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Seahorses
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Seahorses
by Catherine Wallis

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An introduction to one of nature's most startling, beautiful and endangered creatures....
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Ocean Duets
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Ocean Duets
by Michele Westmoreland

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This gorgeous gift book offers a glimpse of the ocean world with photos, capturing in pairs a diverse array of marine life. Includes informative captions and essays and an Introduction by an esteemed oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer....
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Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth
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Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth
by Keith Stewa Thomson

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Living Fossil describes the life and habitat of the coelacanth and what scientists have learned about it during fifty years of research. It is an exciting and very human story, filled with ambitious and brilliant people, that reveals much about the...
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