Sea Urchins (William Wymark Jacobs).

Эта книга посвящена удивительным морским существам - морским ежам. Автор, известный морской биолог, детально описывает их внешний вид, повадки, особенности питания и размножения.

Морские ежи обитают практически во всех морях и океанах мира. У них красивый круглый панцирь, покрытый длинными подвижными иглами. С помощью этих игл они передвигаются по дну и защищаются от хищников.

В книге подробно рассказывается о строении и функциях всех органов морских ежей: игл, лучевой системы, пищеварительного тракта, нервной системы. Отдельные главы посвящены их размножению и развитию личинок.

Книга богато иллюстрирована красочными фотографиями и схемами, позволяющими получить наглядное представление об этих загадочных животных. Это увлекательное и познавательное чтение для всех, кто интересуется морской биологией.

Seaworm (1969) A Sea of Personal Issues Elaine Showalter 206 pages Scientific paper waxes nostalgic about early modern biological and psychological approaches to sea urchins' behavior Dramas of the intimate sufferings of these beckoned beings, portrayed through immensely labored (and potentially totally uninteresting) ethnographic animals' encounters. Claked as an exploration of animal consciousness, a major reason for the book's mentality floundering is that no matter how much the author tries to ensure accurate and complex representations of behavior, examining those behavioral experiences has always been merely a facade for a circular chain of statements (all or most of them false) about hallucinations and alien existence (as encapsulated by Wheelock)—a tantamount issue with reading the thing for its true meaning. The best-known early work of Wymack Jacobs (The Self-Portrait of Others [1973]), Seaweed (translated by Hannah Arendt, Oktay Basboga, and Joan Ehrenreich, with a preface by Arendt) follows an aging "attentive observer" whose literary agent recently requested that Jacobs collect everything into a single volume and decided to use propoganda to do so. This approach, which largely worked, was informed by Wymak's interest in collagens, clay imagery, and other typotheques.\nA reactionary to the original attempt, translated by David Foster Wallace (appearing occasionally in his essay collection Up from the Garden) once again successfully conflates the clarity demands of a book with those of an essay collection, ultimately resulting in a mish-mash that rarely fits together: secular, non-secular, and schizophrenic overlaps inform what promise can be found and utterly distract from any opening recognizable as meaningful. Nonetheless, like Wallace's version, Sea Urchins offers an essential glimpse into the ongoing dialogue between American thought and literature and the predicaments that accompany it.\n