Introductory Oceanography (10th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Harold V. Thurman, Alan P. Trujillo
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $129.20
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 8986
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 10
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 624
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0131438883
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.46
EAN: 9780131438880
ASIN: 0131438883
Publication Date: December 22, 2003
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Product Description
The 10th edition of this popular book continues to provide an excellent foundation in science by examining the vast body of oceanic knowledge. Spanning the disciplines of geology, chemistry, physics, and biology, it allows readers to have a fundamental understanding of how oceans work. Interwoven within the book are hundreds of photographs, illustrations, real-world examples, and applications that make the material relevant, accessible, and entertaining. Well-organized and clearly written, this book covers scientific inquiry and gives an historical look at the study of oceanography; the origins of life, the earth, and the oceans; plate tectonics; marine provinces; marine sediments; water and seawater; air-sea interaction; ocean circulation; waves, tides, and coastlines; biological productivity and the marine habitat; marine resources; and environmental concerns. This book is intended to help readers in their quest to find out more about oceans. Because of its comprehensive scope and excellent resource materials, it can also serve as an excellent reference work for those involved in oceanography.
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overillustrated, overpriced December 23, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Might there be an economic incentive for textbook to be in its tenth edition? Probably 20% of the illustrations are unncesessary. Photographs of pretty girls pulling up a bucket of water and scientists are a waste of ink, the reader's time and money. Dimensions are always given in metric, followed by the English equivalent. Imagine a chemistry textbook giving molecular weights in grams followed by pounds in parentheses. The authors are gushingly emotional and 100% poltically correct about climate change, overfishing and the adverse effects of agricultural runoff (never mentioning bemefits).
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