Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, Paperback

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microsco...

Reducere. For millennia, coral reefs have flourished as one of the planet's most magnificent natural wonders. As Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem-surpassing...

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Reducere. DescriptionTake a trip down memory lane, or the Coastal Highway of Ocean City, with the most family-friendly locations that children, young and sea...

Reducere. In 1803, cocky Jamie Sharpe graduates top in his class from Bullard's Academy, aiming to become a ship's captain like his long-at-sea father. Unfor...

Reducere. DescriptionTake a trip down memory lane, or the Coastal Highway of Ocean City, with the most family-friendly locations that children, young and sea...

Oceans feed us and affect our climate. With climate change, pollution, and overfishing, our oceans are at risk as never before. Yet we are only jus...

Reducere. In this timely book, award-winner Molly Bang uses her signature poetic language and dazzling illustrations to introduce the oceanic world. From tin...

Our oceans need our help now! Packed with facts you never knew about the effects of climate change and pollution on our oceans, and simple actions ...

Are these strange animals the stuff of nightmares or aliens from outer space? Turns out, they're real undersea animals Find out how deep-sea creatu...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(...

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The number and size of dead zones, uninhabitable zones in our water, are on the rise. In this book, David L. Kirchman explains how they were discov...

DescriptionMicrobial ecology is the study of interactions among microbes in natural environments and their roles in biogeochemical cycles, food web...

This book discusses examples of crime scenes in the archaeological past, their detection and interpretation with the help of modern science; reader...

DescriptionWith great good humor and a Wagnerian sense of the majesty in an ocean crossing, Juan Corradi makes his sailboat the star of the narrati...

This book is a "how-to" textbook in fieldwork-based analysis. Each chapter demonstrates how the ideas of a specific philosopher can be interrogativ...

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Reducere. Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of "itineraries" to trace the places in wh...

Reducere. A twenty-five-year veteran of field research in Niger and Mali, anthropologist Susan J. Rasmussen examines the female-dominated practice of herbali...

This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is...

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia was published in 1977 i...

Written primarily for students embarking on an undergraduate bioscience degree, this primer provides a concise overview of microbial biotechnology,...

A lyrical story of two brothers at odds with each other against a backdrop of Second World War-ravaged London. Distinctive two-colour printed artwork.

This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of view and considers authenticity in terms of how meaning is...

DescriptionThe tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic...

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volu...

This interdisciplinary, full-colour textbook describes microbial contaminants from plants, fungi and animal products that are potentials risk to hu...

Reducere. As the long war with France enters its eighth year, there is trouble in the Baltic. Napoleon is busy recruiting new allies to cut off Britain's vit...

This book presents the main research veins developed within the framework of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD), a paradigm that orig...

When a little boy sees an ultrasound picture on the fridge, he discovers his mom is pregnant with an alien It's a shock at first, but then he reali...

Learning becomes fun with this book about the animals of the ocean! In Over in the Ocean: A coral reef baby animal counting book, amazing artwork w...

Pippi Longstocking's quirky tales have been entertaining readers for 75 years. In this story Pippi, Tommy and Annika are of on a great adventure-a ...

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This review is an update to the first worldwide review of bottom fisheries in the high seas, published in 2009 based on information from 2003 to 20...

The author offers a bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges the existi...

The third in the interactive series that featured }There's A Monster In Your Book{ and }There's A Dragon In Your Book{. Expresses a gentle message ...