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Biology and the mechanics of the wave-swept environment
Denny, Mark W., 1951-Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988.Online EBSCO University Press
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Air and water : the biology and physics of life's media
Denny, Mark W., 1951-Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993.Addressing general readers as well as biologists, this monograph demonstrates how the physics of fluids (in this case, air and water) influences the often fantastic ways in which life forms adapt themselves to their terrestrial or aquatic environment.Addressing general readers and biologists, this book shows how the physics of fluids (in this case, air and water) influences the often fantastic ways in which life forms adapt themselves to their terrestrial or aquatic "media". Winner of the 1993 award for best new book from the professional and scholarly division of the AAP.
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Conversations with Marco Polo : the remarkable life of Eugene C. Haderlie
Denny, Mark W., 1951-[Philadelphia] : Xlibris Corporation, c2006.Conversations with Marco Polo is a biography of Eugene Haderlie, whose extraordinary life is deeply intertwined with the 20th century: a rough-and-tumble childhood in Wyoming during the Depression; ; sn unfrttsfustr rcprfition to Baja Mexico, where he crossed paths with John Steinbeck and had his inflamed appendix taken out by a veterinarian; two years as hard-hat diver in "World War II, defusing mines in the English Channel and enduring the trauma of D-Day. The conversations recorded here are akin to reading about Marco Polo: tales of every-day life and adventure from a world we can never experience firsthand."--p. 4 of cover.
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