Encyclopedia of the Oceans (9780198606871)

This major new volume is an indispensable resource, and an endlessly fascination work of reference. Clearly structured in two parts, dealing with the physical nature of oceans and the evolution and distribution of marine life, it covers all the major fields of oceanographic research. Its accessible treatment offers a wealth of up-to-date information on topics ranging from oceanic ridge formation and hydrothermal vents, to the rhythm and patterns of tides, currents, and weather systems, to the astonishing diversity and complex interactions of marine communities. The impact of humankind on the oceans is also discussed: with increasing demand for resources, the world's oceans are set to become the 'final frontier' for intensive scientific research. However, the seas are not inexhaustible, nor are they infinitely resilient; disasters such as Exxon Valdez have brought home the enormous costs of marine pollution. The "Encyclopedia of the Oceans" considers the options and looks at the sustainable use of resources and conservation of marine life.
The stunning photographs - many of them illustrating exciting new underwater research projects, brilliant explanatory artworks and maps, together with the clear, authoritative text combine to make this an invaluable work of reference on a unique, vital, but little understood component of our planet.

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• Format Hardback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 232 x 299mm | 1,531g
• Publication date 24 Feb 2005
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note full colour throughout
• ISBN10 0198606877
• ISBN13 9780198606871
• Bestsellers rank 1,878,497

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Project X: Alien Adventures: Gold: Race To The Pyramid (9780198493341)

After a crash-landing on Planet Celeston, Max, Cat and Nok set off to find the next fragment of Exis. What will they find instead? Find out in The Crystal Planet.
In The Ruby Cage, Max, Cat and Nok are chased by a scary Minatroll but will it get them?
Max and Cat find a pyrite panther stuck in a crevice. Will they be able to free it and will it lead them to Nok? Find out in The Hunt for Nok.
In Race to the Pyramid, Ant, Tiger and Seven track their friends to the Crystal Pyramid, but they find the Krools have got there before them.
Will the micro-friends be able to find their way through the deadly pyramid maze and escape the Krool commander? Find out in One Step Ahead.
Nok is trapped in the Chamber of Treasures. The micro-friends have to save him, find the fragment and escape is there enough time?
Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

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• For ages 12-17
• Format Paperback | 24 pages
• Dimensions 148 x 207 x 3mm | 44g
• Publication date 05 Sep 2013
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement UK ed.
• Illustrations note Colour
• ISBN10 0198493347
• ISBN13 9780198493341
• Bestsellers rank 111,699

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Project X: Alien Adventures: Gold: The Ruby Cave (9780198493327)

After a crash-landing on Planet Celeston, Max, Cat and Nok set off to find the next fragment of Exis. What will they find instead? Find out in The Crystal Planet.
In The Ruby Cage, Max, Cat and Nok are chased by a scary Minatroll but will it get them?
Max and Cat find a pyrite panther stuck in a crevice. Will they be able to free it and will it lead them to Nok? Find out in The Hunt for Nok.
In Race to the Pyramid, Ant, Tiger and Seven track their friends to the Crystal Pyramid, but they find the Krools have got there before them.
Will the micro-friends be able to find their way through the deadly pyramid maze and escape the Krool commander? Find out in One Step Ahead.
Nok is trapped in the Chamber of Treasures. The micro-friends have to save him, find the fragment and escape is there enough time?
Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Product details

• For ages 12-17
• Format Paperback | 24 pages
• Dimensions 148 x 207 x 3mm | 44g
• Publication date 05 Sep 2013
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement UK ed.
• Illustrations note Colour
• ISBN10 0198493320
• ISBN13 9780198493327
• Bestsellers rank 566,472

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Proust, Class, and Nation (9780199609864)

Writing in 1927, Julien Benda described France as being afflicted by the twin scourges of narrow, class-based politics and rabid nationalism. He nevertheless identified Marcel Proust (who had died in 1922) as a writer who had refused to embrace the ideological narrowness of his age. Edward J. Hughes seeks to assess how Proust and his novel A la recherche du temps perdu might be understood in relation to issues of class and nation. A la recherche was
produced in momentous times. As an extended textual construction, first conceived of in 1908 and the last tranche of which appeared posthumously almost two decades later, it was assembled against a backdrop of major historical events: pre-war tensions in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair and the Separation of Church and
State (issues on which Proust had campaigned publicly); the First World War and the atmosphere of narrow nationalism and Germanophobia which the conflict generated; and the continuing polarization in class politics in the years after the First World War. These all find echoes in A la recherche and Hughes establishes how the exposure given to questions of class and nation needs to be understood historically. He demonstrates that the frequently entrenched positions of Proust's
contemporaries at times square with the language and images of social conservativism to be found in A la recherche. Yet alongside that, Hughes unearths evidence that points to Proust as a free-floating, often playful, iconoclast and radical commentator who, as Theodor Adorno observed, resisted bourgeois
compartmentalization.

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• Format Hardback | 320 pages
• Dimensions 149 x 222 x 23mm | 514g
• Publication date 07 Nov 2011
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 0199609861
• ISBN13 9780199609864
• Bestsellers rank 2,381,440

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