Sensuous Seas : : Tales of a Marine Biologist / / Eugene H. Kaplan.
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 S...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 150 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. What is a Marine Biologist?
- Acknowledgments
- Apologia
- Prologue. The Perils of Teaching
- 1 Deadly Darts
- 2 The Great Jade Green Octopus Hunt
- 3 Bedtime Stories
- 4 Garden of Eden: The Death Apple and the Tree of Life
- 5 A True Romance Story
- 6 Elixir of Love
- 7 Skinny South Sea Sausages
- 8 The Only Male Reproductive Organ with a Name
- 9 Living Lance
- 10 Role Reversal
- 11 Super Male
- 12 Miracle Fish
- 13 Fugu
- 14 Bunnies of the Sea
- 15 Passion for Purple
- 16 Size Does Count
- 17 Fiddler on the Root
- 18 Beware the Duppy
- 19 The Secret of an Improved Sex Life
- 20 How to Court a Female
- 21 The Anti-BLB Club
- 22 Sea Pussy
- 23 Debunking the Big Lie
- 24 A Peek into the Anus of a Sea Cucumber
- 25 The Yellow Submarine
- 26 The Perils of Vanity
- 27 Sexually Repressed Victorian Taxonomists
- 28 Random Ramblings on Relationships
- 29 Penile Bloodletting
- 30 Death and Confusion
- 31 Eyeball to Eyeball
- Epilogue. The Facets of Knowledge
- Glossary
- Illustration Sources
- Index