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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust

    A Joining of Voices and Views

    by Stephen Cooper, Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski, Giovanna Di Lello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Robert Guffey0, Philippe Garnier1, Ryan Holiday2, Jan Louter3, Chiara Mazzucchelli4, Meagan Meylor5, J’aime Morrison6, Nathan Rabin7, Alan Rifkin8, Suzanne Roszak9, Danny Shain0, Robert Towne1, Joel Williams2 ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact.The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Management of the Effects of Coastal Storms

    Policy, Scientific and Historical Perspectives

    by Philippe Quevauviller, Paolo Ciavola, Emmanuel Garnier ...
    A large part of the world’s coastlines consists of sandy beaches and dunes that may undergo dramatic changes during storms. Extreme storm events in some cases dominate the erosion history of the coastline and may have dramatic impacts on densely populated coastal areas. Policy, research and historical background are essential elements that need to be interconnected for effective coastal planning ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

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    by John Steinbeck ...
    A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Fatigue Design of Marine Structures

    by Inge Lotsberg ...
    Fatigue Design of Marine Structures provides students and professionals with a theoretical and practical background for fatigue design of marine structures including sailing ships, offshore structures for oil and gas production, and other welded structures subject to dynamic loading such as wind turbine structures. Industry expert Inge Lotsberg brings more than forty years of experience in design ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

  • Biological Oceanography: An Introduction

    by Carol Lalli, Timothy R. Parsons ...
    This popular undergraduate textbook offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography. As well as a clear and accessible text, learning is enhanced with numerous illustrations including a colour section, thorough chapter summaries, and questions with answers and comments at the back of the book. The comprehensive coverage of this book encompasses the properties of ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Coral Reefs of the Gulf

    Adaptation to Climatic Extremes

    Edited by Bernhard Riegl, Sam J. Purkis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Coral Reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to Climatic Extremes is a complete review and reference for scientists, engineers and students concerned with the geology, biology or engineering aspects of coral reefs in the Middle East. It provides for the first time a complete review of both the geology and biology of all extant coral areas in the Gulf, the water body between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Theory And Applications Of Ocean Surface Waves (Third Edition) (In 2 Volumes)

    by Chiang C Mei, Michael Aharon Stiassnie, Dick K-p Yue ...
    Series Book 42 - Advanced Series On Ocean Engineering
    This book set is a revised version of the 2005 edition of Theory and Applications of Ocean Surface Waves. It presents theoretical topics on ocean wave dynamics, including basic principles and applications in coastal and offshore engineering as well as coastal oceanography. Advanced analytical and numerical techniques are demonstrated. In this revised version, five chapters on recent developments ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Advances in Oceanography

    Edited by H. Charnock ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The papers at the General Symposia of the Joint Oceanographic Assembly were presented by authors who had been invited to deal with topics of broad interdisciplinary interest. Together they gave a valuable account of the present state of marine research, its proQlems and potential. There seems merit in publishing them in one volume and we are grateful to the authors who kindly agreed to prepare ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults

    Edited by Timothy Dixon, , Ph.D., J. Casey Moore ...
    Series series MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Earth Science Series
    Subduction zones, one of the three types of plate boundaries, return Earth's surface to its deep interior. Because subduction zones are gently inclined at shallow depths and depress Earth's temperature gradient, they have the largest seismogenic area of any plate boundary. Consequently, subduction zones generate Earth's largest earthquakes and most destructive tsunamis. As tragically demonstrated ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America

    Edited by Juan José Alvarado, Francisco Alonso Solis-Marin ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book compiles for the first time the development of echinoderm research in Latin America. The book contains 17 chapters, one introductory, 15 country chapters, and a final biogeographic analysis. It compiles all the investigations published in international and local journals, reports, theses and other gray literature. Each chapter is composed of 7 sections: introduction describes the marine ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Modeling Coastal Hypoxia

    Numerical Simulations of Patterns, Controls and Effects of Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics

    Edited by Dubravko Justic, Kenneth A. Rose, Robert D. Hetland, Katja Fennel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a snapshot of representative modeling analyses of coastal hypoxia and its effects. Hypoxia refers to conditions in the water column where dissolved oxygen falls below levels that can support most metazoan marine life (i.e., 2 mg O2 l-1). The number of hypoxic zones has been increasing at an exponential rate since the 1960s; there are currently more than 600 documented hypoxic ... Read more

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  • Shark-Opedia Name That Shark

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Nature books about sharks can spark a child's imagination in a plethora of great ways. First, the pictures of the sharks found in the book can generate questions in the child's mind regarding the animal's natural habitat and how the world of the sea contrasts with the world of land. Second, the pictures of the shark can cause the child to start conversations with his or her parent regarding the ... Read more

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