KRAKEN Day: Release the Kraken!
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By , on June 1st, 2011 Leave a comment   Adaptations, Cephalopods, Reviews   , , , , , , , , ,  

Click to purchase on Amazon! Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid By Wendy Williams Abrams Publishing, 224 pages Reviewed by David Manly for Deep Sea News: When you look at the huge diversity of life on this planet, there are wondrous sites to behold. There are trees that grow until they . . . → Read More: KRAKEN Day: Release the Kraken!

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Book Review: Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point
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By , on April 21st, 2011 16 comments   Reviews   , , , , ,  

If I ever write a popular environmental book, I am going to call it “I Hate Thoreau’s Bastard Children: Why Modern Environmental Writing Sucks.” The pernicious influence of Transcendentalism lingers like a poison oak rash every time someone gets an urge to write about nature. I’ve occasionally thought of making a drinking game as the . . . → Read More: Book Review: Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point

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Finding Our Deep Blue Home
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By , on March 31st, 2011 One comment   Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Organisms, Reviews, Social Sciences   ,  

Click to enter Amazon Page. If you are looking a fact-based text on the ecology the oceans, Deep Blue Home is not for you. If you are interested in the ecology of one woman’s personal connection to the seas – a woman who has studied, wrote, filmed and promoted a greater understanding for our troubled . . . → Read More: Finding Our Deep Blue Home

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