The Extreme Life of the Sea / / Stephen R. Palumbi, Anthony R. Palumbi.
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world-the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrotherma...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 16 color illus. 28 halftones. 5 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments: Guiltless Wonder
- Prologue. The Epic Ocean
- 1. The Earliest
- 2. The Most Archaic
- 3. The Smallest
- 4. The Deepest
- 5. The Shallowest
- 6. The Oldest
- 7. The Fastest Sprints and Longest Journeys
- 8. The Hottest
- 9. The Coldest
- 10. The Strangest Family Lives
- 11. Future Extremes
- Epilogue: A Grand Bargain
- Notes
- Index