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Marine Biology Coloring Book 2ND Edition
by Thomas M Niesen  Publisher Comments 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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Used: $8.00 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason...
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A Voyage for Madmen
by Peter Nichols 
Publisher Comments In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the...
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Sale: $20.50 Hardcover List Price $27.50
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Thousand-Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound
by David Rothenberg Publisher Comments Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence-not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and...
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Underwater Paradise: Red Sea, the Maldives, Malaysia and the Carribean
by Angelo Mojetta Synopsis Part armchair retreat, part field guide, this volume takes readers on an underwater voyage of discovery beneath the Red Sea, Malaysia, the Caribbean Sea, and the Maldives. Chapters are organized geographically, presenting the outstanding natural features...
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The Restless Sea: Exploring the World Beneath the Waves
by Robert Kunzig Publisher Comments The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's climate, but we do...
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
by Susan Casey Publisher Comments A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators — and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them. Susan Casey was in her living room when she...
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Empty Ocean (03 Edition)
by Ellis
Publisher Comments In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many...
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Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas
by Colin Woodard Publisher Comments The Black Sea is already dead. Because of sea-level rise, an entire nation in the South Pacific, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is being washed away. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, vast stretches of coral reef-called the "rainforests of the ocean...
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50 Ways to Save the Ocean
by David Helvarg Publisher Comments The oceans, and the challenges they face, are so vast that it’s easy to feel powerless to protect them. 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, written by veteran environmental journalist David Helvarg, focuses on practical, easily-implemented actions everyone...
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
by Michael Capuzzo
Powells.com Staff Pick Michael Capuzzo has skillfully recreated the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore. Recounting in chilling detail the terrifying attacks, the ensuing panic, and the incredible hunt for the...
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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
by Andy Lamb and Bernard Hanby Publisher Comments With 1,600 superb colour photographs of over 1,200 species, Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive collection of photographs of Pacific Northwest marine life ever published. It is designed to allow 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 The 200-foot-long HMS Challenger sailed around the world from 1873 to 1876--the first major expedition dedicated to the exploration of the ocean floor. It traversed 68,890 nautical miles, visiting the North and South Atlantic, the North and South Pacific,...
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Global Ocean Science: Towards an Integrated Approach
by Ocean Studies Board Synopsis During recent years, large-scale investigations into global climate change and other highly visible issues have taken the lion's share of declining research funds. At the same time, funding for basic research in such core disciplines as physical...
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Corals: A Quick Reference Guide (Oceanographic Series)
by Julian Sprung Synopsis 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. Range extensions: New...
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Changing Sea Levels: Effects of Tides, Weather and Climate
by David Pugh Publisher Comments A textbook that explains the causes of potentially devastating changes in sea level....
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Under the Sea-wind (07 Edition)
by Richard Carson Synopsis For the centennial of the birth of "Silent Spring" author Rachel Carson, a new edition of her groundbreaking paean to the sea Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, "Under the Sea-Wind"Rachel Carsons first...
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The Silent World (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Jacques Yves Cousteau Publisher Comments Jacques Cousteau, the man who introduced the wonders of the sea to a generation through his television series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, chronicled the early days of his underwater adventures in SILENT WORLD, which was an instant...
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Oceans 2020 : Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability (02 Edition)
by John G. Field Publisher Comments Oceans 2020 presents a comprehensive assessment of the most important science and societal issues that are likely to arise in marine science and ocean management in the next twenty years. Sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC),...
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