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Sandcastles Made Simple: Step-By-Step Instructions, Tips, and Tricks for Building Sensational Sand Creations
by Lucinda Wierenga  Publisher Comments A renowned sand sculptor puts a permanent end to less-than-perfect beach creations as she provides the ultimate step-by-step guide to building impressive sandcastles. Wierenga shows that with a few simple tools and a basic understanding of sand, building...
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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...
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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...
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The Naturalist's Guide to the Atlantic Seashore: Beach Ecology from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras
by Scott W 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...
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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....
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Living with the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's Ocean Shores (Living with the Shore)
by Larry G Ward Publisher Comments This volume in the Living with the Shore series provides practical and specific information on the status of the nation's coast and useful guidelines that enable residents, visitors, and investors to live with and enjoy the shore without costly and...
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An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management
by Tomothy Beatley Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of coastal zone management. The authors review the existing management framework at the federal, state, and local level, describing cornerstone federal programs and innovative and leading...
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The Northwest Coast: A Natural History
by Stewart T Schultz Publisher Comments This fascinating book provides a rich synthesis of geology, climatology, and oceanography as the backdrop for an examination of the animal and plant communities of the West Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cape Flattery. It provides insight into the...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches
by Cornelia Dean Publisher Comments Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns -- we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the...
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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...
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Wave-Swept Shore: The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast
by Mimi Koehl Publisher Comments This book describes for the general public the physical mechanics of survival in the strong waves and currents of the ocean shoreline....
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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....
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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...
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Ecology of the Southern California Bight
by Murray D Dailey Publisher Comments Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail,...
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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...
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Seacoast Reader
by John A Murray Publisher Comments The Seacoast Reader celebrates the coastal regions of the world with a collection of works from twenty-three writers whose experiences span three continents, three oceans, and over one hundred and fifty years. It is part of The Nature Conservancy series...
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