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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Elephant seals: population ecology, behavior, and physiology Author: Le Boeuf, Burney J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Natural History \| Biology \| Ecology Publisher's Description: The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close . . . [more] Matches in book (154): ...of Studies and the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California,... ...the pelage above the shoulders with marine epoxy. Nearly all seals were weighed... ...factor in population regulation in marine mammals (Harwood and Hall 1990).... Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Matches in book (362): ...MARINE GEOPHYSICS... ...MARINE VERTEBRATES... ...MARINE INVERTEBRATES... Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The oceans, their physics, chemistry, and general biology Author: Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik) 1888-1957 Published: Prentice-Hall, 1942 Subjects: Matches in book (658): ...Marine Sedimentation... ...Interrelations of Marine Organisms... ...CONSTITUENTS OF MARINE SEDIMENTS... Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography; first fifty years Author: Raitt, Helen Published: W. Ritchie Press, 1967 Subjects: Matches in book (227): ...MARINE BIOLOGY DIVISION... ...MARINE PHYSICAL LABORATORY... ...MARINE LIFE RESEARCH GROUP... Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Background to discovery: Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook Author: Howse, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Travel \| Geography Publisher's Description: Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime explorati . . . [more] Matches in book (83): ...The Marine Chronometer... ...to lead to that sustained effort of marine surveying which by the mid-nineteenth... ...17 , 27 , 28 , 30 , 46 n28 Dutch Marine School (Amsterdam), 190 Dutch Republic,... Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| French Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Matches in book (64): ...The Story of the Marine Quarter... ...Chapter 1 The Casbah and the Marine Quarter... ...Chapter 1 The Casbah and the Marine Quarter... Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reds or rackets?: the making of radical and conservative unions on the waterfront Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology \| United States History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or . . . [more] Matches in book (89): ...119, 128 , 154 , 159 Federation of Marine Transport Workers, 182 n.27 Fisher,... ...Maritime Strike," pp. 672, 673. 29. Marine Workers' Voice, November 1933, p. 1;... ...of Shipping, 1930. American Merchant Marine Conference. 1945 Proceedings . New... Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ecology \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society. The author investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright . . . [more] Matches in book (68): ...Marine Mammals... ...Marine Invertebrates.... ...Fish, Birds, Marine Invertebrates, and Plants... Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Global climate change and California: potential impacts and responses Author: Knox, Joseph B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| California and the West Publisher's Description: California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change - temperature increases, water shortages . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...Marine Ecosystems... ...Marine Wetlands... ...What We Know about Marine Ecosystems... Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate t . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...Marine Tenure... ...Countervailing Marine Rights: Fishing Techniques... ...Countervailing Marine Rights: Species of Fish... Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications Author: Kuhn, Gerald G Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Geography \| California and the West \| Marine and Freshwater Sciences \| Geology \| Ecology Publisher's Description: California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area o . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...Marine sediments— Deposits of sediments formed in the sea. Metamorphism— The... ...Rock Shores at La Jolla, California. Marine Geology 37:197–208. ———. 1982. Sea... ...Sea Cliff Stability West of the Marine Biology Building. Scripps Institution of... Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: In our own hands: a strategy for conserving California's biological diversity Author: Jensen, Deborah B Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Public Policy \| California and the West Publisher's Description: "Biodiversity." As argument over environmental and conservation policy grows more heated in California and throughout the nation, the term has become a buzzword. But what does biodiversity really mean? What really threatens it? Why should we care? In Our Own Hands offers a readable, scientifically s . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...Plastic Pollution of Marine Habitats... ...loss of many other species in the marine intertidal ecosystem (Paine 1966).... ...handful of studies performed on marine organisms. Aquatic animals, in addition... Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Merchants and reform in Livorno, 1814-1868 Author: LoRomer, David G Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History \| European History Matches in book (43): ...on the state of the Tuscan merchant marine in 1829-30. 114. ASF, Misc. di Fin. ,... ...See also Grain, Egyptian Elba, merchant marine in, 327 n. 118 Elites: in Europe,... ...poco incremento ] of the merchant marine in Livorno after 1823 (ASL, Gov. , f.... Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: California's salmon and steelhead: the struggle to restore an imperiled resource Author: Lufkin, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| California and the West \| Marine and Freshwater Sciences Publisher's Description: Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer t . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...Policy Act, 22 , 34 , 90 National Marine Fisheries Service: and Asian driftnet... ...enforcement efforts of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Coast... ...laws and regulations. The National Marine Fisheries Services has noted that... Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The green fuse: an ecological odyssey Author: Harte, John 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Natural History \| Ecology Publisher's Description: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...106 Tropical ecosystems: terrestrial, 78 -98; marine, 99 -121 Trout, 25 , 61... ...planning, wise management of marine and soil resources, use of substitutes for... ...in their bodies, which came from the marine life on which they fattened at sea.... Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sea acorn: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: the people and the place, 1936-1942: with prologue and epilogue Author: Sargent, Peter Published: Sargent, 1979 Subjects: Matches in book (30): ...office will be in the handsome National Marine Fisheries complex; the California... ...a cooperative program with the marine fisheries experts in Mexico which has been... ...23, 2 p.m. Library, Zoo Hospital Do Marine Bacteria Require Accessory Growth... Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Echo and Narcissus: women's voices in classical Hollywood cinema Author: Lawrence, Amy Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus , Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of wom . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...After the marines march away with Horn, there is a cut to the interior of a... ...when we hear the powerful voices of marines singing somewhere offscreen, there... ...Preminger, Otto, 193 n.2 Pride of the Marines, 160 Production Code, 101 , 142 .... Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...Histoire des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homecourt," from the archives... ...of the Forges et Aciéries de la Marine, chapter 2, p. 5. Lequin, Les ouvriers de... ...1871. Compagnie des Aciéries de la Marine. Usines de Saint Chamond . 3 vols.... Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: New York, the politics of urban regional development Author: Danielson, Michael N Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Urban Studies Matches in book (31): ...Contrasts in Influence: The Case of Marine Terminals... ...the Port Authority and the city governments in developing marine terminals.... ...line), 214 Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Terminal, 332 Brooks, Mary, 81 Brown,... Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Sociology \| Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Yamaichi, 298 n.16 Yasuda Fire and Marine, 267 Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance, 81... ...36 Nichido Fire and Marine Insurance 37 Dai-Tokyo Fire and Marine Insurance 38... ...Nippon Fire and Marine Insurance 39 Chiyoda Fire and Marine Insurance 40 Fuji... Similar Items

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