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List Price: £16.99
Our Price: £8.59
Author:
Ray Gibson, Ben Hextall, Alex Rogers
By OUP Oxford
 Easy identification,good for amateurs like me., 2001-10-26
I am interested in sea and shore life but I need a book which is easy to use, one that I can understand and which actually does help me identify what I see. We keep a copy on our boat and thanks to the photographs I have "discovered" new jellyfish and crabs.This book made me want to learn more about the wealth under our keel and on the shore when we reach harbour. Congratulations to the trio responsible for this quality guide.
Mary Reed
List Price: £20.00
Our Price: £10.49
Author:
Malcolm Greenhalgh, Denys Ovenden
By Collins
Excellent guide, 2008-05-13
Unlike many Collins wildlife guides that use photographs (always a bad idea) this is fully illustrated throughout to a very high standard. My only reservation is that it contains only a limited number of fish species.
List Price: £14.95
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Author:
Eugene H. Kaplan
By Princeton University Press
Sensuous Seas: Prawnography at its best?, 2006-08-24
If Miss Jean Brodie was a marine biologist she would, after reading the first page, dismiss this book with its discussion of the attributes of 'Miss Nubile' and hormone laden young men as soft porn. In doing so she would miss out on a distillation of over 30 years experience from a committed, slightly eccentric educationalist and respected academic with a passion for tropical marine ecology. For anyone teaching biology or marine science this engagingly written book is a marvellous toolbox of anecdotes and examples that will stimulate even the most cynical of students.
Each chapter follows a roughly similar pattern with a lyrical initial paragraph and an anecdotal introduction to set the scene followed by a series of easily digestible sections on the same theme. The subject matter for each section, drawn from his years of experience on the field, ranges from the dangers of eating fugu (puffer fish) through to the disproportionate size of the humble barnacles penis. Through a colourful and often humorous approach to each topic, the reader is given a toe-hold grasp of some fairly chewy areas of biology (e.g. honest signalling, evolution, symbiosis, behaviour).
I showed this book to my mother-in-law (not a biologist) who was impressed by the ease with which she could understand the subjects and concepts explored. Having had her interest stimulated by the book she proceeded to bombard me with more questions - how I wish my own students would react similarly to my delivery! I will be using much of the material presented in Sensuous Seas to spice up my own lectures to marine biology undergraduates but this book will also be of interest to armchair and amateur field naturalists.
List Price: £12.99
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Author:
John Steinbeck
By Penguin Classics
Great read, 2008-06-20
I read this book when I was 14 and I am now 28 and I have just finished re-reading it (I have never re-read a book) and it was great. Steinbeck really knows how to make characters and areas come alive. Whilst reading this book you cant help but feel your in a boat doing some fishing with the beautiful California sun glistening of the Gulf of Mexico.
I cant stress how excellent this book is, and I feel sad for anyone who doesnt enjoy it and find the charaters interesting. This is one of the best books by one of the best authors in the twentieth century.
List Price: £8.99
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Author:
Robert Kunzig
By Sort Of Books
The title of Mapping the Deep suggests that it is primarily about oceanography. Although the extremely interesting history of this subject forms a major element in the book, its broader, richer subject is man's changing relationship with the oceans. Until recently these have been characterised by high-handed ignorance, the oceans seen at once as inexhaustible resource and bottomless dump. Robert Kunzig remarks that politicians and science writers seem to be most interested in space exploration, whereas the real story is closer at hand--in the oceans. The symbolic goals of space exploration are easier to understand than the endlessly complex ecology of the deep oceans or the mysteries of the great currents that circle the globe and control its weather. Yet, as Kunzig demonstrates, the oceans are where the future of mankind may be determined. It is now widely accepted, for example, that global warming may precipitate a sudden, massive realignment of the ocean currents, an event certain to have vast but unforeseeable consequences. The climatic catastrophes attendant on the relatively minor disturbance known as El Nino give an idea of what may be in store. Mapping the Deep r...
a masterclass in how to make science interesting, 2006-07-19
Robert Kunzig won the Aventis Science Book of the Year award for Mapping the Deep.In my opinion it is the best science book written in the last ten years.Scientists know so little about the ocean and most of them know little about how to communicate what they do know to the layman.Kunzig takes their limited knowledge and conveys the great beauty and mystery of the oceans to the reader.
List Price: £30.99
Our Price: £22.53
Author:
Jeffrey S. Levinton
By OUP USA
 Quite good, 2001-11-22
Ok so i had to buy this book and read most of it for my first year marine biology degree, as a newcomer to the subject i found it very informative and interesting, it did however lack in a few areas, but as a basic text for me it was very useful
List Price: £26.99
Our Price: £17.81
Author:
Paul Humann
By New World Publications,U.S.
A superb book, 2007-01-31
In a class of its own, with excellent photographs of a huge range of species. A book like this adds a whole new dimension to a Caribbean holiday. Snorkellers should be aware that the frequency of sightings of many species will be very different from that reported by scuba divers.
List Price: £9.95
Our Price: £4.67
Author:
D Macdougall
By University of California Press
Frozen Earth Review, 2007-02-14
In these days of media hype about global warming this book by Doug Macdougall is a breath of fresh air. It is clear, easily read by anyone and brings all the facts of our past ice ages together. I have read a number of books on this subject and this is without doubt one of the best.
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