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At the Water's Edge: Fish With Fingers, Whales With Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea

by Carl Zimmer

ISBN 0684856239 (0-684-85623-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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At the Water's Edge: The Macroevolution of Life

by Carl Zimmer

ISBN 0684834901 (0-684-83490-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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ISBN 9780810103252 (0-8101-0325-7, 0810103257)

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Confidence Man

by Herman Melville

ISBN 0810103257 (0-8101-0325-7)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr

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Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid `ele is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. No other edition of this fine novel is available in paperback. This book is intended for the general reader; students of nineteenth-century American literature. [via]

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ISBN 9780060566685 (0-06-056668-X, 006056668X)

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Fluke

by Christopher Moore

ISBN 006056668X (0-06-056668-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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In his entertaining adventure-in-whale-researching, Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, Nathan Quinn, a prominent marine biologist, has been conducting studies in Hawaii for years trying to unravel the secret of why humpback whales sing. During a typical day of data gathering, Nate believes his mind is failing: the subject whale has "Bite Me" scrawled across its tail. Events become even stranger as the self-proclaimed "action nerds," Nate, photographer Clay, their research assistant Amy, and Kona, a white Rasta (a Jewish kid from New Jersey), encounter sabotage to their data and equipment. They also observe increasingly bizarre whale behavior, including a phone call from the whale to their wealthy sponsor to ask that Nate bring it a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye, and discover both a thriving underwater city and the secret to what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Thoughtful, irreverent, and often hilarious, Moore has crafted a tale that contains a bit of the saga of declining whale populations due to hunting and habitat destruction, as well as his over-the-top, decadent wit as applied to scientific methodology and professional jealousies. Moore notes a pasty, rival scientist "looked like Death out for his after-dinner stroll before a busy night of e-mailing heart attacks and tumors to a few million lucky winners," and that killer whales (which are all named Kevin), are "just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car." Smart, sincere, and a whale of a story, Fluke is terrific. --Michael Ferch [via]

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ISBN 9780380978410 (0-380-97841-5, 0380978415)

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Fluke, Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

by Christopher Moore

ISBN 0380978415 (0-380-97841-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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In his entertaining adventure-in-whale-researching, Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings, Nathan Quinn, a prominent marine biologist, has been conducting studies in Hawaii for years trying to unravel the secret of why humpback whales sing. During a typical day of data gathering, Nate believes his mind is failing: the subject whale has "Bite Me" scrawled across its tail. Events become even stranger as the self-proclaimed "action nerds," Nate, photographer Clay, their research assistant Amy, and Kona, a white Rasta (a Jewish kid from New Jersey), encounter sabotage to their data and equipment. They also observe increasingly bizarre whale behavior, including a phone call from the whale to their wealthy sponsor to ask that Nate bring it a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye, and discover both a thriving underwater city and the secret to what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Thoughtful, irreverent, and often hilarious, Moore has crafted a tale that contains a bit of the saga of declining whale populations due to hunting and habitat destruction, as well as his over-the-top, decadent wit as applied to scientific methodology and professional jealousies. Moore notes a pasty, rival scientist "looked like Death out for his after-dinner stroll before a busy night of e-mailing heart attacks and tumors to a few million lucky winners," and that killer whales (which are all named Kevin), are "just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car." Smart, sincere, and a whale of a story, Fluke is terrific. --Michael Ferch [via]

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Grayson

by Lynne Cox, Alberto Magnet

ISBN 0307279472 (0-307-27947-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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ISBN 9780852291634 (0-85229-163-9, 0852291639)

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Great Books of the Western World

by Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard Hutchins

ISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica

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The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]

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ISBN 9780553561050 (0-553-56105-7, 0553561057)

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Green Shadows, White Whale

by Ray Bradbury

ISBN 0553561057 (0-553-56105-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Summoned to Ireland to write a screenplay for Moby Dick, a young writer penetrates the enigma of the fog-shrouded land, meeting a cast of brilliant characters, including IRA members, priests, banshees, and others. Reprint. K. [via]

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Herman Melville's Moby Dick

by Herman Melville, Peter Fish

ISBN 0812034287 (0-8120-3428-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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ISBN 9780791040676 (0-7910-4067-4, 0791040674)

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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791040674 (0-7910-4067-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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In his introduction Harold Bloom suggests that the tragic protagonist of Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab, has only a few peers among American literary characters--though none wholly of his eminence. This text includes a brief biography of Melville, thematic and structural analysis of the work, and numerous essays by the best critics of the novel.

This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]

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ISBN 9780893463465 (0-89346-346-9, 0893463469)

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Humphrey the Lost Whale

by Richard Hall, Wendy Tokuda, Hanako Wakiyama

ISBN 0893463469 (0-89346-346-9)
Softcover, Heian Intl Pub Co

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The true story of Wrong Way Humphrey

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ISBN 9780670891573 (0-670-89157-6, 0670891576)

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In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick

ISBN 0670891576 (0-670-89157-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vital source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life aboard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the sucking of human bones dry.

By sticking to the tried and tested Longitude formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the Essex was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can't really ask for more. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]

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Katie K. Whale

by Suzanne Tate, James Melvin

ISBN 1878405128 (1-878405-12-8)
Softcover, Nags Head Art

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Mabel the Whale

by Patricia King, Katherine Evans

ISBN 0813655463 (0-8136-5546-3)
Softcover, Pearson Learning

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ISBN 9781593080181 (1-59308-018-2, 1593080182)

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Moby Dick

by Herman Melville, George Stade, Carl F. Hovde

ISBN 1593080182 (1-59308-018-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury Moby-Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. [via]

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ISBN 9781561632947 (1-56163-294-5, 1561632945)

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Moby Dick

by Will Eisner, Herman Melville

ISBN 1561632945 (1-56163-294-5)
Hardcover, NBM Publishing Company

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The third in Will Eisners series of adaptations of the classics. The story of a dangerously obsessed man. Obsessed with seeking vengeance against a great white whale that pushes him and his reluctant crew in a quest across the seven seas. Obsessed with pitching his boat against a formidable beast against all odds and oblivious to the great risk to life and limb. Fully painted by Will Eisner. Seen for the first time in the USA.

"True to Herman Melville`s classic. The cartoon panels that chronicle the final showdown between the captain and the giant fish are particularly spectacular."-Publishers Weekly

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ISBN 9780822008521 (0-8220-0852-1, 0822008521)

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Moby Dick Notes

by Cliff's Notes Editors

ISBN 0822008521 (0-8220-0852-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Moby Dick Or, the Whale

by Herman Melville

ISBN 1419134736 (1-4191-3473-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]

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ISBN 9781857150407 (1-85715-040-6, 1857150406)

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Moby-Dick, Or, The White Whale

by Herman Melville

ISBN 1857150406 (1-85715-040-6)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library

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Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]

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Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale

by Marcus Pfister, J. Alison James

ISBN 0735816344 (0-7358-1634-4)
Hardcover, North South Books

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Something Rich and Strange

by Patricia A. McKillip

ISBN 1596871261 (1-59687-126-1)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated

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ISBN 9781586634155 (1-58663-415-1, 1586634151)

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Sparknotes Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

ISBN 1586634151 (1-58663-415-1)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group

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Get your "A" in gear!

They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:

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We're Going on a Treasure Hunt

by Lenny Hort, Tom Arma

ISBN 0810946548 (0-8109-4654-8)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc

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ISBN 9780770423315 (0-7704-2331-0, 0770423310)

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A Whale for the Killing

by Farley Mowat

ISBN 0770423310 (0-7704-2331-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd

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In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the authorities, but it was too late-ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died. A plea for the end of commercial hunting of the whale, this moving account blends all the tension of the life-and-death struggle for one animal's survival with the drama of man's wanton destruction of life-bearing creatures and the environment itself. [via]

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