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    Spirals in time : the secret life and curious afterlife of seashells / Helen Scales.

    By: Scales, Helen [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury sigma series: bk. 4.Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472911384; 1472911385; 9781472911360; 1472911369; 1472916700Subject(s): Mollusks | Shells | Mollusks | ShellsDDC classification: 594.147/7 LOC classification: QL405 | .S33 2015Other classification: 594.1 | 594.1477
    Contents:
    Prologue -- 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 -- Epilogue -- A note on shell-collecting -- Glossary : a word in your shell-like.
    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.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index.

    Prologue -- 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 -- Epilogue -- A note on shell-collecting -- Glossary : a word in your shell-like.

    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.

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