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Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate by Jennifer A Mather Publisher Comments The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends - from the giant octopus attack in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey Staff Pick It has long been asserted that we know more about the surface of the moon than we do the vast seascapes that cover some 70 percent of our planet. Susan Casey's seductive book, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean, goes a... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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King of Fish Thousand Year Run of Salmon by David R Montgomery Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Whelks to Whales: Coastal Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by Rick M Harbo Publisher Comments This full-colour field guide to the marine life of coastal British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California is perfect for divers, boaters, beachcombers, and snorkellers of every experience level. The concise handbook is a ready... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seashore of the Pacific Northwest by Ian Sheldon Publisher Comments A spectacular guide to the Pacific Northwest's intertidal life with full-color illustrations of 150 species and concise descriptions of mammals, jellyfish, starfish, arthropods, worms, seaweeds and more.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice (P.S.) by Trevor Corson Publisher Comments Everything you never knew about sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it Trevor Corson takes us behind the scenes at America's first sushi-chef training academy, as... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diversity of Fishes by Bruce B. Collette and Douglas E. Facey and Gene S. Helfman Publisher Comments Fishes, as the largest group of living vertebrates, offer almost unlimited opportunities for the study of evolutionary adaptations to environmental and biotic selection pressures. The book covers basic fish anatomy, physiology and phylogeny, but the... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $55.00 Used - Hardcover
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans by Charles Moore Publisher Comments A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis. In the summer of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures (Audubon Society Field Guide) by Norman A Meinkoth Publisher Comments Each of the 690 identification pictures is a full-color photograph of a seashore creature. Arrangement by shape and by color makes identification quick and easy. 666 species are covered in full detail.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Flexible
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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... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Life in the Chesapeake Bay by Alice Jane Lippson Publisher Comments Published in 1984, the first edition of Life in the Chesapeake Bay became an instant classic, providing fascinating insights into some of the more than two thousand plants and animals that make their home in America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay.... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Savage Shore: Life and Death with Nicaragua's Last Shark Hunters by Edward Marriott Publisher Comments Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. Braving Nicaragua's hurricane-torn wilderness of mangrove swamps, Edward Marriott... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alien Ocean (09 Edition) by Stefan Helmriech Publisher Comments "Since I first read, and then taught, Helmreich's extraordinary essay on alien kinship and the biopolitics of gene transfer in marine biology and biotechnology in 2003, I have been swimming eagerly in his alien oceans, waiting for this book, eager to... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 * Also by Osha Gray Davidson * Request Exam Copy * Buy this Book Fire In The Turtle House The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean by Osha Gray Davidson Aug 13, 2003 Paperback US $15.00 CAN $23.00 UK 10.99 ISBN: 9781586481995 ISBN-10: 1586481991... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Edge of the Sea by Rachel 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Manatee by Rei Ohara Publisher Comments Strange looking, slow, and rather fat, manat ees are one of the most endearing creatures on Earth. Manate e is the best photographic book available on these curious a nd endangered mammals. '... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America's Oldest Industry by Michael Crocker Synopsis Most popular and scholarly investigations of the New England groundfish management crisis have not produced very complex stories. Environmentalists and scientists are typically portrayed as the protagonists in a relentless struggle against antagonistic... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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