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Brimming with illustrations and descriptions of more than six hundred species, SeaLife is the most comprehensive reference available in a single volume to the vast panorama of vertebrate and invertebrate creatures inhabiting the world's oceans and shores. Topics covered include oceanography and marine biology; biology of marine environments; marine invertebrates; marine fishes; marine reptiles; seabirds; whales, dolphins and porpoises; dugong and manatees; seals, sea lions and walrus; and marine otters and polar bears. With 56 color plates, 1,000 black-and-white illustrations, 75 maps and an extensive reference section, this book is an essential companion for all marine enthusiasts.

This product is a complete reference to both classical material and advanced topics that are otherwise scattered in sometimes hard-to-find papers. A major effort in writing the book was made to highlight the intuitions behind the theoretical development.

Edward Powell es un solterón sin remedio, con un alto concepto de sí mismo, encantado de su sensibilidad, proclive a sentirse humillado y dudosamente perspicaz. Vive en Gales, que aborrece («nada más deprimente que este país bajo la lluvia»), en una población de nombre impronunciable, Llwll, en el caserón familiar, con la detestable tía Mildred, usufructuaria de su herencia —Edward recibe una parca asignación—y recelosa de sus sueños de independencia. Oprimido por la hostil convivencia con esa pariente caprichosa y autoritaria, y harto de la irritación que le producen tanto las chicas del servicio como los vecinos de la zona, se propone liberarse de tantos lastres maquinando accidentes para matar a su tía, cuidándose mucho de no dejar rastro. Consigna en un diario su empeño obsesivo en urdir el asesinato perfecto, sin advertir que su dudoso comportamiento no pasa desapercibido. El asesinato de mi tía (1934) combina admirablemente estudio de carácter y comicidad. Edward, a pesar del ridículo, tiene el encanto del presuntuoso que no se abochorna de su falta de ética, y la tía Mildred no es muy distinta de su sobrino. Con un acreditado sentido británico de la intriga, Richard Hull tampoco desperdicia algún irónico giro argumental.

The international bestseller Dean Koontz delivers a masterclass of storytelling suspense in this thriller. What would you do if a serial killer forced you to choose who he murders next? On the windscreen of his SUV, Billy finds the first note. It gives him a choice. If he takes the note to the police, an elderly woman will be killed. If he doesn't approach the police, a schoolteacher will die. He thinks it's a hoax. The schoolteacher is killed. Further notes taunt Billy's conscience, forcing him to decide who lives and who dies. He must think the unthinkable, fast, in an accelerating nightmare. More communications from the killer follow with ever tighter deadlines. Each is more personal, more confrontational than the last until he is isolated, with no one to rely on but himself. Finally, he must risk everything to save the helpless, clueless victims...