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Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea
by Trevor Norton  
Publisher Comments On a hot summer's day there could be no quicker transport to the seaside than Trevor Norton's cool and entrancing account of a lifetime's adventures under or near the water. Norton's eye for the bizarre, amazing, and beautiful inhabitants of the oceans...
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Sale: $16.98 Hardcover List Price $45.00
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Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack Ice
by David N Thomas Publisher Comments Life abounds in and around the planet's ice caps and science has learned a great deal about it and the role pack ice plays in the world's ecology. This book is the first exploration of the topic for lay people and is abundantly illustrated....
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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
Publisher Comments 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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Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer
by Kathleen Crane Publisher Comments Sea Legsis the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. By turns personal and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea...
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Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics
by Annalisa (edt) Griffa Publisher Comments Written by a group of international experts in their field, this book is a review of Lagrangian observation, analysis and assimilation methods in physical and biological oceanography. This multidisciplinary text presents new results on nonlinear analysis...
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Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean
by Osha Gray Davidson Publisher Comments Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world. Perhaps most important, sea...
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Perfect Storm: a True Story of Men Against the Sea (97 Edition)
by Junger Publisher Comments October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an...
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Exploring the World Ocean (08 Edition)
by Sean Chamberlin Publisher Comments Exploring the World Ocean presents oceanography as a systems science, aimed at understanding the world ocean as a single, interdependent system of interacting geological, physical, chemical and biological processes. The text also emphasizes the idea that...
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Whales and Dolphins (Collins Wild Guides)
by Mark Carwardine Publisher Comments "Whales and Dolphins" Wild Guide is the perfect introduction to 96 species of whale, dolphin, and porpoise. This pocket-size guide is essential for the family reference shelf, helping you to identify each species and discover more about them. Detailed...
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Marine Geography: GIS for the Oceans and Seas
by Joe (edt) Breman Publisher Comments Designed for both experienced marine cartographers and less technically oriented conservationists, this wide-ranging collection of case studies shows how geographic information system (GIS) software is helping professionals study the world's oceans and...
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The Mediterranean Sea
by Alain Saliot Publisher Comments Our current knowledge on chemicals in the Mediterranean Sea is presented. The increasing rates of exploitation and pollution are producing unprecedented environmental changes in this semi-enclosed sea, which is often considered a unique model to study...
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Light Scattering by Particles in Water: Theoretical and Experimental Foundations
by Miroslaw Jonasz Publisher Comments Light scattering-based methods are used to characterize small particles suspended in water in a wide range of disciplines ranging from oceanography, through medicine, to industry. The scope and accuracy of these methods steadily increases with the...
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Edge of the Sea (55 Edition)
by Rachel L. Carson Publisher Comments Rachel Carson is best known for Silent Spring, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. But while she was profoundly concerned about the environment as a whole, her deepest passion was for the sea, and many readers consider The Edge of...
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Singing Whales and Flying Squid: The Discovery of Marine Life
by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments A richly illustrated journey that uncovers the weird and wonderful creatures of the deep...
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Breaking Ocean Waves: Geometry, Structure and Remote Sensing (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences)
by Eugene A. Sharkov Publisher Comments This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical properties including geometry, strucutre, spatio-temporal evolution and remotely sensed reflectance and emissivity in visible, IR and microwave ranges of one of the most important...
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Florida's Living Beaches: A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber
by Blair Witherington Publisher Comments Florida has 1200 miles of coastline, almost 700 miles of which are sancy beaches. Exploring along those beaches offers encounters with myriads of plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objects--all are covered in this comprehensive guide with descriptive...
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Exploring Ocean Science (2ND 96 Edition)
by Keith S. Stowe Synopsis Based on the concept that nature is neither random nor irrational, this revised edition offers clarity, brevity, accuracy and a lively and interesting writing style. Using an inquisitive and explanatory approach, the book answers not only "what," but...
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Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
by Jim Mcwilliams Publisher Comments Earth's atmosphere and oceans exhibit complex patterns of fluid motion over a vast range of space and time scales. These patterns combine to establish the climate in response to solar radiation that is inhomogeneously absorbed by the materials comprising...
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Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries & Conservation (Fish and Aquatic Resources)
by Tony J. (edt) Pitcher Publisher Comments Seamounts originate from volcanic islands that have sunk beneath the surface of the sea, mainly as a result of erosion, or geological disturbance. The ecological and oceanographic importance of seamounts for the status of marine food webs and...
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Indian Ocean (Oceans and Seas)
by John F. Prevost Publisher Comments Surveys the origin, geological borders, climate, water, plant and animal life, and economic and ecological aspects of the Indian Ocean....
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