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by Farley Mowat  Publisher Comments With the dedicated reasearch and highly readable prose that are his hallmarks, Farley Mowat painstakingly recounts the grim fate of the wildlife of the North Atlantic seaboard after the arrival of European man. This "howl of outrage" (Kirkus) chronicles... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Sylvia A Earle Publisher Comments Internationally renowned as the ambassador-at-large to the world's oceans, Sylvia Earle is an extraordinary woman--the former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a distinguished marine biologist, a veteran of more than... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brenda Peterson Publisher Comments For 50 million years, the gray whale has evolved along human shores, linking its history with human existence. Ancient and colossal, the gray whale weighs 45 tons and swims 10,000 miles along the West Coast each year from its Alaskan summer feeding... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christian Buchet Publisher Comments In the much-anticipated follow-up to his 2002 international triumph The Sea, photographer Philip Plisson figuratively widens his lens to provide a more global focus on the sea and the humans who depend on it for survival. As magnificent as its... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peterson Book News Annotation A comprehensive guide to all 790 known species in the specified range, with some 700 illustrations (most in color), 377 distribution maps and additional line drawings of key details; information range, habitat, and behavior, and status of endangered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vikenti Zaitsev Publisher Comments This book gives all the information needed to understand the chemical, biochemical and sanitary principles underlying the preparation of fishery products. The sequences of operations and processing conditions are described in detail together with the... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $71.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid--at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton--is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threatening undersea presence, Architeuthis has remained a mystery.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas M Niesen Publisher Comments With text completely rewritten and updated, including technological breakthroughs and discussions of recent weather trends such as El Ni$o, and 20% new drawings, this favorite will hook both serious marine biology students and weekend beachcombers.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by H. Bruce Franklin Publisher Comments In this brilliant portrait of the oceans' unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America's national (and natural) history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both. Since Native Americans began using... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan H Mclachlan Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Angus Wilson Publisher Comments The Complete Whale-Watching Handbook is a spectacular celebration of whales, porpoises, and dolphins, and of the immense diversity of opportunities to view these spectacular marine mammals in the wild. Once the stuff of fishermen's yarns and literary... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ocean Studies Board Publisher Comments The book examines the impact of these programs on research, education, and collegiality within this diverse scientific community and offers recommendations to help ensure a vital future for ocean science, including: specific results of the programs such... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Severns Publisher Comments Biologists contend that a rough triangle drawn from the Philippines to the western tip of New Guinea to the island of Bali and back encloses the richest concentration of coral reef species in the world. Into the very center of this teeming diversity of... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eugene H. Kaplan Publisher Comments With more than 750 illustrations, including 300 color photographs, this guide covers more than 1,000 species, such as shoreside plants, clams, shrimps, crabs, corals, seaweeds, sponges, and sea urchins, as well as all of the common seashore communities... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Doug Perrine Book News Annotation Photojournalist Perrine examines the bizarre evolutionary experiments that have characterized the development of sharks and rays, exploding the myth that they have not changed in over hundreds of millions of years. He explores their life history... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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