Author: Pamela S. Turner
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ISBN: 9781338049008
Category : Marine ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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"From the surface of the ocean, it's hard to see any visible signs of life below. But this remarkable ecosystem is teeming with life ― life that is increasingly under environmental stress. And it is often the predators that sound the earliest warning signs. By tracking a wide variety of ocean predators, the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) project provides essential cutting-edge information about the state of the ocean's health and the challenges facing all its inhabitants. Acclaimed science writer Pamela S. Turner takes readers along with four predators ― a leatherback sea turtle, a bluefin tuna, a great white shark, and a Sooty Shearwater ― on their remarkable journeys. This full-access look will change the way readers view our blue planet." -- publisher.
Author: Andrea Gibson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312306075
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Provides information about the adaptations, behaviors, habitats, anatomy, and evolution of sharks, and features illustrations and descriptions of specific types of sharks found around the world, grouped by order.
Author: Richard Evelyn Byrd
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442241675
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 477
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From the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. Launched during the Great Depression amid great public skepticism, and with funding at its toughest to secure, this second Antarctic journey proved as daring, eventful, and inspiring as any Byrd ever embarked upon. Reissued for today’s readers, Admiral Byrd’s classic explorations by land, air, and sea transport us to the farthest reaches of the globe. As companions on Byrd’s journeys, modern audiences experience the polar landscape through Byrd’s own struggles, doubts, revelations, and triumphs and share the excitement of these timeless adventures.
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Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426203145
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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"In a sweep of history, this book brings you what National Geographic has introduced into households for more than a century: the world and all that is in it. Concise narratives, each focused on one event and numbered chronologically from 1 to 1,000, walk you through the story of civilization, from the first evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago to the discovery of the first known planet beyond the solar system that could harbor life as we know it. Accompanied by hundreds of illustrations, events famous, infamous and little known offer insight into how and why the world has grown and changed as it has."--BOOK JACKET.
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Author: Lawrence Rick
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257051563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Author: Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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"Select bibliography": pages 431-436.
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Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Author: Eugene H. Kaplan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140083564X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Learning marine biology from a textbook is one thing. But take readers to the bottom of the sea in a submarine to discover living fossils or to coral reefs to observe a day in the life of an octopus, and the sea and its splendors come into focus, in brilliant colors and with immediacy. In Sensuous Seas, Eugene Kaplan offers readers an irresistibly irreverent voyage to the world of sea creatures, with a look at their habitats, their beauty and, yes, even their sex lives. A marine biologist who has built fish farms in Africa and established a marine laboratory in Jamaica, Kaplan takes us to oceans across the world to experience the lives of their inhabitants, from the horribly grotesque to the exquisitely beautiful. In chapters with titles such as "Fiddler on the Root" (reproductive rituals of fiddler crabs) and "Size Does Count" (why barnacles have the largest penis, comparatively, in the animal kingdom), Kaplan ventures inside coral reefs to study mating parrotfish; dives 740 feet in a submarine to find living fossils; explains what results from swallowing a piece of living octopus tentacle; and describes a shark attack on a friend. The book is a sensuous blend of sparkling prose and 150 beautiful illustrations that clarify the science. Each chapter opens with an exciting personal anecdote that leads into the scientific exploration of a distinct inhabitant of the sea world--allowing the reader to experience firsthand the incredible complexity of sea life. A one-of-a-kind memoir that unfolds in remarkable reaches of ocean few of us can ever visit for ourselves, Sensuous Seas brings the underwater world back to living room and classroom alike. Readers will be surprised at how much marine biology they have learned while being amused.
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Languages : en
Pages : 916
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