2006, Oceanography 19(4):190, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.38

BOOK REVIEW | Oceans: An Illustrated Reference

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Book Information

Oceans: An Illustrated Reference
By Dorrik Stow, University of Chicago Press, 2006, 256 pages, ISBN 0226776646, Hardcover, $55 US

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Reviewer

Tom Garrison | Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, USA, and one of Oceanography's Education columnists

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First Paragraph

One test of a book is to leave it on your desk for a time and see what happens when somebody picks it up. In the case of Dorrik Stow's Oceans: An Illustrated Reference, curious examiners wanted to know if it was a textbook, a cyclopedic reference, or a coffee table book.

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Full Review

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Citation

Garrison, T. 2006. Review of Oceans: An Illustrated Reference, by D. Stow. Oceanography 19(4):190, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.38.

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