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How the Ocean Works is as ambitious a title as this reviewer's freshman biology text, intimidatingly titled Life. However, much to his credit, Denny, not only acknowledges this fact, but manages to turn it to his advantage. . . . How the Ocean Works is an invaluable addition to any undergraduate or graduate library where even a single marine-focused class is taught.
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Steve Vogel describes Mark Denny as the ultimate autodidact, and teaching something, whether to oneself or to one's porch mates, is the ultimate learning approach and one that promises to produce a very readable introduction to oceanography. The book largely delivered on that promise and on my high expectations both Denny's preface and his prior works.
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An elegant presentation of how the ocean works. Denny's purpose is to review a selection of oceanographic topics to provide a background for considering such current public issues as climate change and marine fisheries. Accessible and enjoyable reading, and the scholarship is very sound.
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How the Ocean Works is as ambitious a title as this reviewer's freshman biology text, intimidatingly titled Life. However, much to his credit, Denny, not only acknowledges this fact, but manages to turn it to his advantage. . . . How the Ocean Works is an invaluable addition to any undergraduate or graduate library where even a single marine-focused class is taught.
(S.E. Brazer Choice )
The book is a very good read, well written, illustrated and explained, kept clear for a scientific layman, but also with necessary rigour in the Appendices associated with key chapters for those wanting that bit more physical or mathematical background.
(Grant Bigg The Geographical Journal )
Steve Vogel describes Mark Denny as the ultimate autodidact, and teaching something, whether to oneself or to one's porch mates, is the ultimate learning approach and one that promises to produce a very readable introduction to oceanography. The book largely delivered on that promise and on my high expectations both Denny's preface and his prior works.
(Quarterly Review of Biology )
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An elegant presentation of how the ocean works. Denny's purpose is to review a selection of oceanographic topics to provide a background for considering such current public issues as climate change and marine fisheries. Accessible and enjoyable reading, and the scholarship is very sound.
(Nicholas D. Holland, University of California, San Diego )
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basinwide tilt, major ocean gyres, equilibrium platform, ocean interior, eastward velocity, geostrophic equilibrium, large phytoplankton, heat influx, trophic efficiency, biological pump, phytoplankton grow, nitrogenous nutrients, seasonal thermocline, phytoplankton cell, global catch, trophic pyramid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, North Pole, North America, North Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, San Francisco, South Pole, World War, California Current, North Atlantic, Grand Banks, New World, Black Sea, United States, Marine Biology, Challenger Deep, Cape of Good Hope, South America, Middle East, Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics, Southern Sea Browse Sample Pages:
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