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Sea Turtles

An Extraordinary Natural History of Some Uncommon Turtles

By: Blair E. Witherington

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Sea Turtles

An Extraordinary Natural History of Some Uncommon Turtles

By: Blair E. Witherington

Streamlined and equipped with flippers, sea turtles seem uniquely adapted for water-yet remain firmly attached to land, where the females lay their eggs each year. They sport the many colors of the rainbow, range in weight from 100 to 1,300 pounds, and figure in the mythology and folklore of cultures around the world. And still, they currently risk extinction. In this book, marine biologist Blair Ernest Witherington, who has devoted decades to these ancient creatures, offers readers an in-depth look into their mysterious world. Accompanied by exquisite photographs, his descriptions comprise a personal introduction to these strangely graceful marine reptiles. Detailed, lively, and up-to-date imagery tells the story of sea turtles’ distant origins, their specialized form and undersea challenges, senses and life cycle, world voyages and navigational talents—and their ecological roles. The most comprehensive overview of sea turtles to date, this book portrays each of the seven species in close-up, offering information on appearance, distribution, movements, life history, reproduction, diet, unique traits, and conservation.

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Voyageur Press (MN)

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0760326444

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9780760326442

Our Sea Turtles

A Practical Guide for the Atlantic and Gulf, from Canada to Mexico

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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A Practical Guide for the Atlantic and Gulf, from Canada to Mexico

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

Our Sea Turtles is the story of understanding, experiencing, and saving the sea turtle and helping them thrive in our oceans. Now in its second edition, Blair and Dawn Witherington’s iconic book includes updated facts and figures, new photos, and new calls to action for saving the turtles. Well-organized sections that are full of photos, maps, and figures help readers get a sense of the various types of sea turtles and how they might be similar or different from one another. Those who are interested in not only learning about the marine animal but also in helping it benefit from the authors’ precise knowledge and understanding of sea turtles.

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297

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1683343573

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9781683343578

Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast

A Beachcombers Guide including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida's Panhandle

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast

A Beachcombers Guide including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida's Panhandle

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle beckon curious beachcombers with miles of wave-swept Gulf coastline. These beaches offer more than a sandy stroll amidst stunning scenery—they are alive! As ever-changing ribbons of sand, these beaches foster unique life-forms and accept beguiling castaways from a vast marine wilderness. Mysteries abound. What is this odd creature? Why does the beach look this way? How did this strange item get here? Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast satisfies a beachcomber's curiosity within a comprehensive yet easily browsed guide. The guide is written in a familiar style and is illustrated with distribution maps and hundreds of color photos. Accounts include beach anatomy, coastal phenomena, and shoreline animals, plants, and geology. Hundreds of seashells are depicted as well as other interesting animals, flowers, historical structures, beach sands, and beach art. The authors suggest a variety of beach scavenger hunts and recommend hints for beachcombing success.

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1683340574

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Sea Turtles

An Extraordinary Natural History of Some Uncommon Turtles

By: Blair E. Witherington

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An Extraordinary Natural History of Some Uncommon Turtles

By: Blair E. Witherington

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Florida's Seashells

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair E. Witherington,Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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Florida's Seashells

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair E. Witherington,Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

Descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and 265 color photographs describe 252 species of mollusk shells as beachcombers are likely to find them"--P. [4] of cover.

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Pineapple Press Inc

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1561643874

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Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair E. Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair E. Witherington,Dawn Witherington

Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas" satisfies a beachcomber's curiosity within a comprehensive yet easily browsed guide covering beach processes, plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objects. Full-color photos. Maps.

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179

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Pineapple Press Inc

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1561644900

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9781561644902

Florida's Living Beaches

A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber

By: Blair Witherington

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Florida's Living Beaches

A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber

By: Blair Witherington

The first edition of Florida's Living Beaches (2007) was widely praised. Now, the second edition of this supremely comprehensive guide has even more to satisfy the curious beachcomber, including expanded content and additional accounts with more than 1800 full-color photographs, maps, and illustrations. It heralds the living things and metaphorical life along the state's 700 miles of sandy beaches. The expanded second edition now identifies and explains over 1400 curiosities, with lavishly illustrated accounts organized into Beach Features, Beach Animals, Beach Plants, Beach Minerals, and Hand of Man.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561649880

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9781561649884

Florida's Seashells

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair E. Witherington,Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair E. Witherington,Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

Descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and 265 color photographs describe 252 species of mollusk shells as beachcombers are likely to find them"--P. [4] of cover.

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Hitler's U-Boat War

The Hunters, 1939-1942

By: Clay Blair

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Hitler's U-Boat War

The Hunters, 1939-1942

By: Clay Blair

Clay Blair's best-selling naval classic Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, is regarded as the definitive account of that decisive phase of the war in the Pacific. Nine years in the making, Hitler's U-boat War is destined to become the definitive account of the German submarine war against the Allies, or "The Battle of the Atlantic." It is an epic sea story, the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in all history. For a period of nearly six years, the German U-boat force attempted to blockade and isolate the British Isles, in hopes of forcing the British out of the war, thereby thwarting the Allied strategic air assault on German cities as well as Overlord, the Allied invasion of Occupied France. Fortunately for the Allies, the U-boat force failed to achieve either of these objectives, but in the attempt they sank 2,800 Allied merchant ships, while the Allies sank nearly 800 U-boats. On both sides, tens of thousands of sailors perished. The top secret Allied penetration of German naval codes, and, conversely, the top secret German penetration of Allied naval codes played important roles in the Atlantic naval battle. In order to safeguard the secrets of codebreaking in the postwar years, London and Washington agreed to withhold all official codebreaking and U-boat records. Thus for decade upon decade an authoritative and definitive history of the Battle of the Atlantic could not be attempted. The accounts that did appear were incomplete and full of errors of fact and false interpretations and conclusions, often leaving the entirely wrong impression that the German U-boats came within a whisker of defeating the Allies, a myth that persists. When London and Washington finally began to release the official records in the 1980s, Clay Blair and his wife, Joan, commenced work on this history in Washington, London, and Germany. They relied on the official records as well as the work of German, British, American, and Canadian naval scholars who published studies of bits and pieces of the story. The end result is this magnificent and monumental work, crammed with vivid and dramatic scenes of naval actions and dispassionate but startling new revelations and interpretations and conclusions about all aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic. The Blair history will be published in two volumes. This first volume, The Hunters, covers the first three years of the war, August 1939 to August 1942. Told chronologically, it is subdivided into two major sections, the War Against the British Empire, and the War Against the Americas. Volume II, The Hunted, to follow a year later, will cover the last years of the naval war in Europe, August 1942 to May 1945, when the Allies finally overcame the U-boat threat. Never before has Hitler's U-boat war been chronicled with such authority, fidelity, objectivity, and detail. Nothing is omitted. Even those who fought the Battle of the Atlantic will find no end of surprises. Later generations will benefit by having at hand an account of this important phase of World War II, free of bias and mythology.

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865

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Modern Library

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0307874370

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9780307874375

Why Architecture Matters

Lessons from Chicago

By: Blair Kamin

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Why Architecture Matters

Lessons from Chicago

By: Blair Kamin

This text collects the best of architecture critic Blair Kamin's columns. Using Chicago as a barometer of national design trends, the book sheds light on the state of American architecture during 'the Nervous Nineties'.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226423220

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9780226423227

Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

With simple organization, this guide tells the individual stories of 213 shelled mollusks using descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and color photographs. Accounts feature glimpses of each seashell's former life as a living creature. The organization and descriptions as well as the photographs make shell identification easy.

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Florida's Living Beaches

A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber

By: Blair Witherington

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A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber

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Our Sea Turtles

A Practical Guide for the Atlantic and Gulf, from Canada to Mexico

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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A Practical Guide for the Atlantic and Gulf, from Canada to Mexico

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Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast

A Beachcombers Guide including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida's Panhandle

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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A Beachcombers Guide including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida's Panhandle

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Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

A Beachcomber's Guide

By: Blair Witherington,Dawn Witherington

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A Beachcomber's Guide

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Sea Turtles

Sea Turtles

Our Sea Turtles

Our Sea Turtles

Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast

Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast

Sea Turtles

Sea Turtles

Florida's Seashells

Florida's Seashells

Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas

Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas

Florida's Living Beaches

Florida's Living Beaches

Florida's Seashells

Florida's Seashells

Hitler's U-Boat War

Hitler's U-Boat War

Why Architecture Matters

Why Architecture Matters

Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

Florida's Living Beaches

Florida's Living Beaches

Our Sea Turtles

Our Sea Turtles

Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast

Living Beaches of the Gulf Coast

Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas

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