Sensuous Seas

Author : Eugene H. Kaplan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083564X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensuous Seas written by Eugene H. Kaplan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ava Branson
Publisher : Ava Branson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensuous Seas written by Ava Branson and published by Ava Branson. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, widowed, and wealthy, Stephany Maragos can’t imagine living her life without purpose, so she packs up her three-year-old daughter and moves to the Caribbean to start a new life. With the help of her brother-in-law, she starts a luxury yacht charter business catering to the rich and famous. But it’s her captain that steers his way into her life and her heart, kindling feelings she wasn’t prepared to have. Captain Spencer Murphy knows a thing or two about loss. Following the untimely death of his wife, he deliberately immerses himself in work, content to keep Evander one of the premiere yachts in the tropics. Until a new boss changes the status quo. Competent, yet with a hint of vulnerability that brings out his protective side, Stephany Maragos captures more than just his dedication to work. But it’s no longer smooth sailing when a proposed merger with another charter yacht and its larger-than-life owner comes along and threatens to bring more than just business their way. Spencer realizes he knows no boundaries when it comes to the woman who has captivated his heart. She’s rich, beautiful, and out of his league. At least that’s what he thought. Until one night… Mature content.

Author : Greg Ambrose
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573060547
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shark Bites written by Greg Ambrose and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 close encounters with the ocean's most feared predator.

Author : Nik Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004203605
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Animals written by Nik Taylor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on current trends in post-modernism and post-humanism this books offers a challenge to current ways of thinking, theorising and talking about animals and humanimal relations

Author : Arnold Safroni-Middleton
Publisher : London, Methuen; New York, Doran [1919]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Sea Foam written by Arnold Safroni-Middleton and published by London, Methuen; New York, Doran [1919]. This book was released on 1919 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Jensen
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639146
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving the Mother written by Beth Jensen and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leaving the M/other develops a striking parallel between Whitman's poetry and Kristeva's theory with close readings of poems published from 1855 to 1881. At the root of the analysis is the metaphor of the ocean."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Cathie Dunsford
Publisher : Spinifex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781875559695
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manawa Toa written by Cathie Dunsford and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into a luscious feast of language and imagery, laced with Maori proverbs. Cowrie boards a ship bound for Mururoa Atoll during the French nuclear tests. She is in for a rough ride. As international attention is focused on the Pacific and the environment, the stakes rise. She is joined by Sahara, a young peace activist from England. But can she be trusted? Can anyone be trusted? With the rich flavours and textures of the island nations, Cathie Dunsford brings us a third novel about Cowrie. With sensuous writing and a deep knowledge of the traditions, the reader can feel the rock of the sea, taste the food, and fear the attacks on the peace flotilla.

Author : Dr Jon Anderson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409450511
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean written by Dr Jon Anderson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical human activities take place at sea, including trade, tourism, migration, scientific exploration and resource exploitation. This book offers a novel and important contribution to an ever-emerging cross-disciplinary subject matter and challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline, (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human) this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space and dispenses with fixed conceptions of space. It advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional.

Author : Jules Michelet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.D9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea (La Mer) written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kimberley Peters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351619667
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space written by Kimberley Peters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by, activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the ‘oceanic turn’ in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-setting insights into the relationships between society and the ‘seas around us’. Accordingly, this ambitious text not only attends to a growing interest in our oceans, past and present; it is also situated in a broader spatial turn across the social sciences that seeks to account for how space and place are imbricated in socio-cultural and political life. Through six clearly structured and wide-ranging sections, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space examines and interrogates how the oceans are environmental, historical, social, cultural, political, legal and economic spaces, and also zones where national and international security comes into question. With a foreword and introduction authored by some of the leading scholars researching and writing about ocean spaces, alongside 31 further, carefully crafted chapters from established as well as early career academics, this book provides both an accessible guide to the subject and a cutting-edge collection of critical ideas and questions shaping the social sciences today. This handbook brings together the key debates defining the ‘field’ in one volume, appealing to a wide, cross-disciplinary social science and humanities audience. Moreover, drawing on a range of international examples, from a global collective of authors, this book promises to be the benchmark publication for those interested in ocean spaces, past and present. Indeed, as the seas and oceans continue to capture world-wide attention, and the social sciences continue their seaward ‘turn’, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space will provide an invaluable resource that reveals how our world is a water world.