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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $35.15
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Manufacturer: David & Charles UK
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William Gray::David Bellamy
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Publisher: David & Charles UK
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.526367
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Publication Date: 1993-09
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Reading Level: 192
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Price: $219.95
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Sale: $182.95
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Manufacturer: CRC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sadiq
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Publisher: CRC
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.52636
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Publication Date: 1992-02-26
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Presents an integrated chemical behavior of selected toxic metals: arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, and lead. All important processes that may affect their marine chemistry are discussed. Thermodynamic calculations are performed to propose the most probable route of chemical behavior. Th
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $12.87
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Manufacturer: Tidewater Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jay G., Jr. Merwin::John Capper::Garrett Power::Frank R. Shivers
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Publisher: Tidewater Publishers
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.73940916347
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Publication Date: 1997-11-14
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Reading Level: 272
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Price: $84.95
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Sale: $63.15
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: I. Valiela
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 669.94
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Publication Date: 1995-08-10
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Reading Level: 686
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Description: The oceans represent a vast, complex and poorly understood ecosystem. Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader--particularly the graduate student--with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book focuses on the processes controlling marine ecosystems, communities, and populations and demonstrates how general ecological principles--derived from terrestrial and freshwater systems as well--apply to marine ecosystems. Numerous illustrations, examples, and references clearly impart to the reader the current state of research in this field: its achievements as well as unresolved controversies. This is a comprehensive and highly respected synthesis of marine ecology. It has been well received both as a text and a reference book. Reviewers said "organization of the book is logical, the writing is clear, and the text illustrations are well done" and "this book has much to offer as a textbook."
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $11.99
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Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen Harrigan
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 797.23
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Publication Date: 1999
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Reading Level: 287
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Description: "Moving, intelligent and, in the best sense, literary.... Stephen Harrigan is anchored in reality; he knows that the environment he's describing is in serious jeopardy. At the same time, he has made this book sparkle with his remarkable ability to discuss the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of underwater exploration without ever sounding saccharine or murky." —New York Times Book Review "[Harrigan] tells us about the people who live on Grand Turk, or come there on business, and he is given to reflecting on the subtleties of the underwater experience, but his real virtue as a writer is his ability to convey, in precise, lucid, prose, the marvels of the sea bottom." —New Yorker "Harrigan ...captures the peacefulness of being rocked by salty currents, the massive beauty of the reefs, the exhilaration of the sport, and the mental scramble to retain fast-fading memories of sights almost unimaginable on land. Fellow divers will relish his camaraderie, while those who prefer staying topside will feel as though they've taken the plunge themselves." —Booklist This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Sunbelt Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Students of The Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High
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Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333
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Publication Date: 2007-05-18
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Reading Level: 950
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Description: San Diego Bay: A Story of Exploitation and Restoration,features a beautiful synthesis of artistry and information indescribing a complex urban marine environment. The stories revolve around progress in the region related to local geography and the utilization of resources. The book includes rich captivating oral histories and first-hand descriptions of the state of our coastal habitats and wildlife from over 30 interviews, and is complemented with historic and current photos, most of which have never been seen by the public.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: Lyons Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David K. Bulloch
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Publisher: Lyons Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.739409162
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Publication Date: 1989-05
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Reading Level: 150
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.52636
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Publication Date: 1992-04-23
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Reading Level: 592
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Description: It is becoming increasingly apparent that the interaction between plants and animals is one of the principal factors governing the composition, structure and abundance of marine benthic communities. The study of this subject in turn has contributed greatly to our understanding of coastal ecosystems and to general ecological concepts. In this volume, well-known authorities present a much-needed up-to-date review of the subject. Both regional and global perspectives are offered, with an emphasis on the relationship between herbivores and their food plants. Special consideration is given to the topics of bioerosion caused by interactions and to endosymbiosis involving algae and cnidarians. The research presented here represents the most authoritative coverage available. It will be consulted as a standard reference by marine ecologists, and used as a text by advanced students and teachers in the fields of oceanography, aquatic biology, co-evolution, malacology, and animal behavior. oceanologists
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Cindy Lee Van Dover
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.79
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Publication Date: 2000-03-06
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Reading Level: 424
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Description: The deep sea has long been likened to a terrestrial desert. In some ways the analogy is useful, writes marine biologist Cindy Lee Van Dover, for the oceanic floor, like many arid regions of the earth, is low in biomass. She adds, "What life there is, though, is remarkably diverse," sometimes numbering hundreds of species in a single square meter of mud. That deep-sea diversity is nowhere more pronounced than in the thermal vents that often occur where tectonic plates meet, marked by great lava fields and even active volcanoes (three-quarters of which are underwater). Located, among other places, along the great mountain ridges of the Laurentian Abyss and the Marianas Trench, these vents harbor strange creatures found nowhere else--giant clams and mussels, for example, and 2-meter-long "tubeworms" whose internal organs house sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. Discovered only in 1977, these hydrothermal vents, which vary markedly from ocean to ocean, have excited much attention among researchers. Some scholars now believe that life originated in these fiery environments, which have yielded relict species of barnacles, crinoids, and mollusks hitherto known only from the fossil record. Examining the ecology and geochemistry of the planet's deep-sea vent systems, Van Dover presents a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, and highly accessible survey of these mysterious places. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $24.59
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Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sylvia Earle
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Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9164
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Publication Date: 1995-04-19
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Reading Level: 361
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Description: What have we learned since 1951, when Rachel Carson's charming The Sea Around Us was published, winning so many hearts and the National Book Award? The sea below us, as pioneering marine biologist Sylvia Earle and others have demonstrated, churns with far more life than Carson ever dreamed. Sea Change is an enthusiastic celebration of that diversity and abundance. It's also a profoundly sobering account of the shortsighted human assault on ocean life. The "silent tide," as one reviewer wrote, may lie just offshore. Only a sea change in human habits and economies will save the oceans. Like Carson, Earle carved a place for herself in the public imagination despite resistance from those in her male-dominated field. Her tales of underwater adventure--including many record-breaking dives among the 6,000 hours she has spent underwater--are punctuated by stories about her increasing prominence as an advocate for the oceans. She's seen it all, it seems: a year diving with whales in Hawaii, visits to Prince William Sound and the Persian Gulf in the aftermath of colossal oil spills, etc. Her breezy prose won't win her the National Book Award, but few others wear Rachel Carson's mantle as gracefully. That is reason enough to read Sea Change. --Pete Holloran
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