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By: Crane, Kathleen
Price: $18.00 $16.20
Publisher: Boulder, CO, U.S.A., Westview Press: 2002
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 016972
ISBN: 0-8133-4004-7
Condition: New
"Sea Legs"is the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. By turns personal and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea and her research of deep-sea underwater volcanoes. As research doors in the United States closed during the 1980s, Crane charted her scientific future with the Europeans and with scientists from the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. In the process she became an unwitting diplomat.From the Galapagos dives in the "Alvin" and the ... View more info
Price: $6.30 $5.67
Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Center for Marine Conservation: 1991
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 028368
ISBN: 1879269031
Condition: Very Good
By: Hohn, Donovan
Price: $9.00 $8.10
Publisher: New York, Viking: 2011
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 069417
ISBN: 0670022195
Condition: Very Good
Minor edgewear. Tight, unmarked copy. View more info
By: Hohn, Donovan
Price: $13.50 $12.15
Publisher: New York, Viking: 2011
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 073966
ISBN: 0670022195
Condition: Near Fine
Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sa... View more info
By: Idyll, C.P.(ed.)
Price: $5.40 $4.86
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1969
Seller ID: 019191
Condition: Very Good
By: Idyll, C.P.(ed.)
Price: $4.50 $4.05
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1969
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 051558S
Condition: Very Good
Price: $16.20 $14.58
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Columbia University Press: 2003
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 017540
ISBN: 0231122446
Condition: As New
From where -- and what -- does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our world's oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms by way of slight variations in Earth's orbit and rotation. The book then takes the measure of water today in all its states, solid and gaseous as well as liquid. How do the famous El Ni... View more info
Price: $1.80 $1.62
Publisher: New York, Pyramid: 1970
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 059632
Condition: Very Good
By: Miles, Edward L. And Contributors
Price: $76.50 $68.85
Publisher: Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., University of California Press: 1982
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 022252
ISBN: 0520044339
Condition: Very Good
103pp. Bumped cover corners unaffects textblock. View more info
By: Rice, A.L.
Price: $40.50 $36.45
Publisher: U. K., Ray Society: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 080532
ISBN: 0903874199
Condition: As New
Errata slip laid in. View more info
By: Schlee, Susan
Price: $6.75 $6.08
Publisher: New York, Dutton: 1973
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 045063
ISBN: 0525096736
Condition: Very Good
Name blacked out on ffep. View more info
By: Tchernia, P.
Price: $13.50 $12.15
Publisher: Tarrytown, New York, U.S.A., Pergamon Press: 1979
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 047525
ISBN: 008020919x
Condition: Very Good
Includes 19 plates in separate envelope. Binding is tight and pages unmarked. View more info
By: Thurman, Harold V. & Trujillo, Alan P.
Price: $4.50 $4.05
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ, U.S.A., Prentice Hall College Div: 2002
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 074081
ISBN: 0130652350
Condition: Very Good
Wear to edges. Name first page. Binding tight, pages unmarked. Color illustrations throughout View more info
By: Thurman, Harold V.; Trujillo, Alan P.
Price: $4.50 $4.05
Publisher: U.S.A., Prentice Hall College Div: 1999
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 067571
ISBN: 0137273487
Condition: Very Good
