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Cover of Shark Handbook
by Gregory Skomal
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Greg Skomal is one of the world’s leading shark experts: many thousands of viewers know him as the “Shark Guy” on Discovery Channel and he’s affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. So if you’re dreaming of swimming with sharks, there’s no one better to take you—and that’s...
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Shark Attacks

Inside the Mind of the Ocean's Most Terrifying Predator

by Gordon Grice
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

National Geographic pairs gripping and gruesome stories of shark attacks with cutting edge research to illuminate a fascinating underwater world that few truly understand. Sharks are the world's most fascinating predators—capable of detecting a single drop of blood in 25 million drops of ocean and...
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The Dolphin in the Mirror

Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives

by Diana Reiss
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

This scientific memoir by an aquarium researcher “illuminate[s] the world of the dolphin’s amazing intelligence and playfulness.” —Temple Grandin “One comes away from Reiss’s book agreeing that ‘dolphins are among the smartest creatures on the planet’ and that they merit not...
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Voyage of the Turtle

In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur

by Carl Safina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters...
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Dolphin Diaries

My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas

by Dr. Denise L. Herzing
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011

Dr. Denise Herzing began her research with a pod of spotted dolphins in the 1980s. Now, almost three decades later, she has forged strong ties with many of these individuals, has witnessed and recorded them feeding, playing, fighting, mating, giving birth and communicating. Dolphin Diaries is an account...
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Shark Trouble

True Stories and Lessons About the Sea

by Peter Benchley
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002

Master storyteller Peter Benchley combines high adventure with practical information in Shark Trouble, a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea. The bestselling author of Jaws, The Deep, and other works draws on more than three decades...
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Deep Blue Home

An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean

by Julia Whitty
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010

At the center of Deep Blue Home—a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it—is Whitty’s description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It’s a watery force connected...
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Eye of the Albatross

Visions of Hope and Survival

by Carl Safina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003

"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he...
Cover of Encyclopedia of Dolphins
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013

Thought to be one of the most intelligent and beautiful creatures in our oceans and rivers, dolphins also take on a persona that is adored worldwide. We see them jumping, playing, and even hear them laughing as they have fun in the ocean. Dolphins are some of the most highly intelligent creatures...
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Return of the Sea Otter

The Story of the Animal That Evaded Extinction on the Pacific Coast

by Todd McLeish
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018

A science journalist's journey along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska to track the status, health, habits, personality, and viability of sea otters--the appealing species unique to this coastline that was hunted to near extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries. These adorable, furry...
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Octopus

The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate

by Roland C. Anderson, Jennifer A. Mather, James B. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends—from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula the...
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Walking Sideways

The Remarkable World of Crabs

by Judith S. Weis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The world's nearly 7,000 species of crabs are immediately recognizable by their claws, sideways movement, stalked eyes, and thick outer shells. These common crustaceans are found internationally, thriving in various habitats from the edge of the sea to the depths of the ocean, in fresh water or on...
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The Secret Life of Whales

A Marine Biologist Reveals All

by Micheline Jenner
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018

Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales she reveals the...
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by Peter Lehner with Bob Deans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5 000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico the 560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then on April 20 2010 BP's dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion...
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