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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Seas of Yesteryear -- 1 A Brief History of Our Seas -- The Mother of All Extinctions -- Great Marine Beasts -- Survivors Born -- 2 The Sea That Once Was -- The Mysterious History of the Black Sea -- The Red Forest that Disappeared -- The Closest Thing to the Past -- 3 Hunted to Extinction -- The Tragic Story of the Sea Cow -- The Extinction of the Great Auk -- The Sad Seal -- 4 Whatever Happened to Cod? -- Basques and Cod -- The Hated Competitors -- The Upcoming Changes -- 5 The End of the Cetaceans' Reign -- Disclosing Irregularities -- Scientific Hunting -- Whales and Climate Change -- Effects of Overfishing -- 6 Major Fisheries and the End of Innocence -- Squid Take up Positions -- El Niño and the Peruvian Anchovy -- Cantabrian Anchovy -- 7 The Sea's Harvest -- Tuna and Traps -- The Forgotten Sharks -- Protecting the Open Ocean -- 8 Ploughing the Sea: The Destruction of the Marine Forest -- Deep Corals -- What is the 'Nursery Effect'? -- By-Catch -- 9 The Forgotten Fish -- Destroying with Dynamite -- But What Harm Can a Fishhook Do? -- Hunting in the Sea: Fishing with a Speargun -- 10 The Ghosts of the Sea -- A Small Sea of Jellyfish -- Giant Jellyfish (Nomura nomurai) -- Carybdea marsupialis, Mediterranean Cubomedusa -- 11 Precious Coral -- A Bit of History -- Emperor Sea Mountains -- An Example to Follow -- Effects of Pollution -- 12 The Silent Threat -- BP Disaster -- The Tragedy of Plastics -- Mercury in the Arctic -- 13 The Swamped Shoreline -- Dead Zones -- The Destruction of Coasts -- Too Many Visitors -- 14 The Stained Sea -- Red Tide and Invasions Through Ports -- Dark Slime -- 15 The True Alien Nightmare -- The Mediterranean: A Sea of Invasions -- 'Killer' Algae -- A Problematic Crab -- Impact of Climate Change -- 16 Climate Detectives -- Changes in Carbon Dioxide Balances over the Last Millennium.

COVER -- CONTENTS -- THE SPARROW, THE COW, AND THE CAT -- A COMMONPLACE STORY -- A LESSON ON DIALECTICS -- TEARS AND LAUGHTERS -- A DEBT OF GRATITUDE -- JUST A MINUTE, PLEASE! -- A NEVER-ENDING STORY -- PENKHOS KARLIK -- THE COOLER -- THE LETTER -- NIKIFOR PROZOROV -- A COINCIDENCE -- THE EXECUTIONER -- DORJI -- MAJOR TCHOUVACHOV, PROTECTOR OF THE SCIENCES -- THE COMPLAINT -- THE FAITH OF THE STALINIST -- POPAUL -- PACK AND GO! -- THE PEASANTS -- STEP TO THE LEFT, STEP TO THE RIGHT… -- STALIN DOES BETTER THAN CUVIER -- SHORTCUTS -- ALBINAS -- SOME FINE PSYCHOLOGISTS -- SAVOIR-VIVRE -- THE COW -- THE BET -- A GOOD JOKE -- BETWEEN THUGS -- THE INFORMER'S PAYCHECK -- PAID LEAVE -- THE PRETTY POLISH GIRL -- TCHEREPANOV, THE WORKSITE BRIGADIER -- THE TRUNK -- A STUPID MISTAKE -- THE BRAIN -- THE CIGARETTE BUTT -- THE LIGHTBULB -- THE SUPERIORITY OF LENINISM OVER TSARISM -- MAN IS NOT EQUAL TO A HORSE -- THE CYCLOPS -- THE ROTTEN FISH -- SHAME -- THE MACHINE TO READ ONE'S MIND -- THE HEAP OF GARBAGE -- THE PRICE OF A MOUTHFUL OF BREAD -- THE SPARROW ON THE WINDOWSILL -- VOLODIA BOOK, HE NEVER STEALS -- A GOOD GUY -- SHARED HAPPINESS -- AH! GIRLS, GIRLS! -- ANOTHER PLANET -- TWENTY YEARS LATER -- THE JAPANESE -- SON! -- YEZHOV -- SOCIALIST LEGALITY -- GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS -- SZMUL SZWARC -- LE LOUVRE -- BECAUSE MAN'S HANDS ARE LIKE THIS -- THE CHINESE KOMSOMOL -- HUNGER -- COLD -- REVEILLE -- OFF TO WORK! -- A SPRING DAY -- "YOU, YOU AND YOU!!" -- A NAIL STUCK IN BETWEEN BALLS -- "YOU'RE PERFECTLY SAFE -- THE ESCAPE -- THE SECRET MESSAGE -- THE LATRINE -- WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER HAND? -- THE SURPRISE OF THE PROSECUTOR -- TOUFTA: LYING, CHEATING, FORGERY -- WHAT A BEAUTIFUL UTOPIA IT WAS! -- AUTHOR'S DRAWINGS -- DEAR READER -- POSTFACE -- CHRONOLOGY.