is a must-have for nature enthusiasts, environmentalists, and marine life lovers. This book is an excellent general introduction that’s full of fascinating facts and fabulous four-color photographs. It presents scientific insights and information in a way that is both readable and highly enjoyable for a popular audience.  (less)

for the debasement of science. Subjects entertained: trichromatic theory of light, the little amoeba''s remarkable inherent abilities, ultimate barrier of any new species or lasting hybrids, how the whale accomplishes the miracle of navigating the great oceans, black holes, differential rotation of sunspots, ring material of the fast-spinning planets, and the Great Red Spot. If you loved Star Trek and Star Wars, you will be fascinated by this extraordinary adventure into space and time.  (less)

and the selfish 80's a band of castaways tries to keep alive a dream of freedom and friendship.As they sail the west coast, smuggling drugs aboard an old schooner they begin to share powerful night-time visions. As Lucky describes it, ""It felt to me as if each night after we all eventually went to bed, made love, watched the stars or whatever we did to relax, as sleep approached, our minds merged - connected across the moonlit spaces by strands of ectoplasm or electrical fields or sub-real particles we will not discover for a thousand years. Then the orcas would come and give us a ride. Images and strange liquid sounds tumbled through our brains. Memories, maybe; someone's memories. Maybe our own if the biologists are right that we were once fish. Mostly it was just flashes of shorelines seen from the water, or long, murky stretches when the eyes were of no use and they had senses we didn't. And always there was the star, beckoning as though we could swim right off the planet."""  (less)