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Spirals in time the secret life and curious afterlife of seashells

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.

Main Author:	Scales, Helen (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015.
Series:	Bloomsbury sigma series ; bk. 4.
Subjects:	Mollusks. Shells.

Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-296) and index.
ISBN:	9781472911360 (hardback) 1472911369 (hardback)
Author Notes:	Helen Scales is a marine biologist based in Cambridge. Her doctorate involved exploring the reproductive biology of the humphead wrasse, and since then she has tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life surrounding a hundred islands in the Andaman Sea, and most recently studied the diverse fish that live on coral reefs in the South Pacific. Helen is now a freelance researcher and broadcaster. A major outlet for Helen's explorations is BBC Radio where she is a reporter and presenter on science and natural history programmes, especially on Radio 4 and the World Service. Her credits include regular appearances on Inside Science and Home Planet , numerous one-off documentaries, and a coveted spot on The Museum of Curiosity . Helen is also a long-standing member of the award-winning science communication collective, The Naked Scientists, based at the University of Cambridge. Helen's first book was Poseidon's Steed; The Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality , (2010, Penguin).

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