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Champions seaweed as a staple food while simultaneously explaining its biology, ecology, cultural history, and gastronomy.

The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population. The author pinpoints issues relevant to oceans' natural resources management and protection. He examines the technology used for the exploration of the oceans' living and non living resources (fisheries, bio-products, energy resources, mineral deposits) and identifies...

A comedy-drama set in the VD ward of a Navy hospital during World War II.

Sea turtles are endangered and threatened to become extinct. Only one in a thousand hatchlings will survive their first few years, known as "the lost years"--The time between when a turtle hatches and swims out to sea and when they come back to shore as larger teenage turtles. Now for the first time, marine scientists are getting a rare glimpse into the young lives of sea turtles.

A tantalizing yet scholarly look at homoeroticism and the performance of hypergender in Marine Corps life.

Seaweed is used in many countries for very different purposes - directly as food, especially in sushi, as a source of phycocolloids, extraction of compounds with antiviral, antibacterial or antitumor activity and as biofertilizers. About four million tons of seaweed are harvested annually worldwide. Of the various species known, less than 20 account for 90% of the biomass exploited commercially. This book details 147 species of edible seaweed, including...

"Still the most comprehensive review of the subject, Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles is now updated to reflect significant advances in sea turtle research. A new section summarizes developments and primary literature for fourteen areas of sea turtle biology and conservation - nesting; hatchling orientation; the early pelagic stage; telemetry and behavior; molecular genetic studies; applied and behavioral endocrinology; metabolism, physiology,...

From the Publisher: An eye-opening look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef. Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious-and humane-plate of seafood. What he discovered shocked him. From North American Red Lobsters to fish farms and research centers in China, Bottomfeeder takes readers on an illuminating tour through the $55-billion-dollar-a-year...