Details

Subject(s)

• Mollusks [Browse]
• Shells [Browse]
• Shellfish [Browse]

Series

• Bloomsbury sigma series ; bk. 4. [More in this series]
• Bloomsbury sigma ; book four

Summary note

Offers an examination of mollusks, their shells, and their role in human culture, as well as their susceptibility to the effects of humans on the environment.

Notes

Series information from title page verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index.

Contents

• Meet the shell-makers
• How to build a shell
• Sex, death, and gems
• Shell food
• A mollusc called home
• Spinning shell stories
• Flight of the Argonauts
• Hunting for treasures
• Bright ideas
• The sea butterfly effect
• A note on shell-collecting
• Glossary : a word in your shell-like.

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ISBN

• 9781472911384 ((pbk.))
• 1472911385 ((pbk.))
• 9781472911360 ((hbk.))
• 1472911369 ((hbk.))
• 9781472916709 ((trade pbk.))
• 1472916700 ((trade pbk.))

LCCN

2017430310

OCLC

911071461

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