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1) Ocean
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Text and illustrations present such ocean creatures as the manta ray, dolphin, and octopus, explaining their physical structures and how they work.
2) Cannery Row
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Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who...
5) Fish faces
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The author-photographer, a marine biologist, uses his own photographs to introduce readers to some of the more amusing characteristics of the creatures he's encountered on his dives.
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Deep is a voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth. Fascinated by the sport of freediving--in which competitors descend great depths on a single breath--James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other...
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Eugene H. Kaplan is Axinn Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Ecology at Hofstra University. A recipient of the Herman Melville award for writing on marine subjects, he is the author of nine books, including Problem Solving in Biology and two Peterson Field Guides, one on coral reefs of the Caribbean and the other on seashores of the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean.
Learning marine biology from a textbook is one thing. But take...
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The Extreme Life of the Sea exposes the eternal darkness of the deepest undersea trenches to show how marine life thrives against the odds, describing how flying fish strain to escape their predators, how predatory deep-sea fish use red searchlights only they can see to find and attack food, and how, at the end of her life, a mother octopus dedicates herself to raising her batch of young. This wide-ranging and highly accessible book also shows how...
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"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental and conservation movements. New introduction by Sue Hubbell
13) Three miles down
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In 1974, a grad student in marine biology at UCLA, recruited to the top-secret "Project Azorian", learns the real reason they are diving in the north Pacific Ocean.
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Two-thirds of this planet is covered by water inhabited by an incredible variety of living organisms, ranging in size from microbe to whale, and in abundance from scarce to uncountable. Whales and dolphins must surface to breathe, and some fishes occupy surface waters and can easily be seen from boats or shore, but most of the marine bio-profusion is hidden from human eyes, often under thousands of feet and millions of tons of water, which is usually...
16) Ocean life
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Time-Life Books
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c1999
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Examines a variety of ocean life, including marine plants, fish, reptiles, and mammals, and discusses their habitats, reproduction, and defenses.
17) The living sea
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Image Entertainment [distributor
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2000]
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Explore the mysterious depths of the "world ocean" to discover the beauty and diversity of the ocean and its importance to all life on earth. Travel to Palau, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Alaska, Nova Scotia, and the Red Sea. Meet humpback whales, swim with golden jellyfish, and witness the spawning behavior of giant clams.
19) Sea life
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Presents key letters of the alphabet in both upper and lower case through pictures of animals who live in the sea.
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Discover a new kind of sea creature! Save a whale from a fishing net! Swim with the dolphins, seals, and sea lions! Marine biologists simply cant do their work cooped up in a lab they need to be out in the ocean, diving among the creatures they study. Inside, meet some world experts in marine biology and find out why they love their adventure-filled jobs.