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Bookstore For Chicago Area Scuba Divers




 
Weekly Featured  Selection: 
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to feature each week.
Dive/First Responder
by Richard A. III Clinchy
Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days.

Dive/First Responder is a "must have" one-stop reference providing current information on handling
the unique challenges of marine emergency medical management. This heavily illustrated, full-color
guide includes information on basic life support, rescue breathing and CPR, use of supplemental
oxygen, and the management of common wounds and fractures. 
Paperback (August 1996)

 

 

SCUBA DIVING
SEAFOOD COOKING
FOR THE KIDS
The Diver's Handbook 
by Alan Mountain 
Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. 

Scuba diving is one of the world's fastest growing sports, and as a result there is an ever increasing demand for authoritative, practical information about this challenging activity. The Diver's Handbook meets this need and covers everything from what equipment to buy and which training courses to attend to basic health and safety measures. With comprehensive and up-to-date text, this book is certain to become an invaluable addition to any diver's bookshelf. Paperback - 160 pages, 300 color photos. 

 
100 Low Fat Fish and Shellfish Recipes (The Complete Book of Food Counts Cookbook Series) 
by Corinne T. Netzer
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24 hours. 

One of six titles in Corinne T. Netzer's new The Complete Book of Food Counts Cookbook Series, 100 Low Fat Fish and Shellfish Recipes takes its inspiration from Corinne Netzer's biggest 
bestseller, The Complete Book of Food Counts, by featuring healthy and delicious recipes complete with full nutritional breakdowns on calories, fat, sodium, cholesterol, protein, and carbohydrates. From Soup of Mussels with Shallots and Wine to main courses like Swordfish and Baby Eggplant En Brochette--this book has it all, and it's all good for you too! So if you want to eat 
well for both body and soul, get the cookbook that "counts." Paperback - 240 pages 

Grover's Adventure Under the Sea (Peek-A-Board Books) by Tom Cooke

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In full scuba gear, intrepid explorer Grover goes in search of undersea treasure. Through gaps in the seaweed and chinks in coral and rocks he discovers a sea horse, a dolphin, a jellyfish, and even a treasure chest filled with sand dollars. Full color. 

Card catalog description: 
Peek-through board pages assist Grover in explaining the delights of underwater animal life. 

Reading level: Baby-Preschool Hardcover - 10 pages 

 
 
Dennis Graver's 100 Best Scuba Quizzes by Dennis Graver
Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. 

A one-volume compilation of updated scuba quizzes dealing with equipment, environment,  decompression/ recompression, physics, physiology, diving activities, safety and emergencies. It contains information not found in scuba texts. 

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook : Recipes & Reflections from  Forrest Gump
by Winston Groom
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Inspired by the record-breaking Paramount film Forrest Gump, this charming book offers more than 50 favorite Southern shrimp and side-dish recipes. Tested in the well-known Southern Living kitchens, here are recipes for shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, barbecued shrimp, and more. 
Full-color photos. 
Hardcover - 108 pages

The Berenstain Bears' Great Scuba Dive (The Berenstain Bears) by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
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Reading level: Baby-Preschool 
Hardcover - 10 pages 

Advanced Wreck Diving Guide 
by Gary Gentile

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Written for the diver with considerable scuba experience, a sense of adventure, and a yen to explore shipwreck sties, Advanced Wreck Diving Guide is amply illustrated and covers all the important 
aspects of the popular sport: approach, techniques, safety, wreck penetration, and decompression methods, as well as the details of artifact recovery and restoration. In addition, Gary Gentile includes invaluable tips on underwater photographer. Gentile, a professional photographer and experienced shipwreck diver, has enlivened his informative text with anecdotes that may make novice divers and armchair adventurers alike want to don diving gear! Paperback. 
 

Jane Brody's Good Seafood Book
by Jane E. Brody, Richard Flaste

Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. 
An American authority on great food that is also good food, Jane Brody has written three bestsellers on healthful eating. This book includes comprehensive chapters on selecting, cleaning, filleting, and storing fish, basic seafood cooking  techniques, a discussion of seafood safety, and a complete nutrition chart combine with over 200 delicious recipes to create a health-conscious seafood lover's cookbook that's certain to be the catch of the year. 
Paperback - 577 pages (Hardcover version - 577 pages, ships in 2 - 3 days

Monsters Don't Scuba Dive (Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, No 14)
by Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones, John Steven Gurney

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Attending Camp Lone Wolf, the Bailey School kids encounter strange grown-up counselors, including a director whose hairy appearance makes him seem like a werewolf and a swim teacher who may be the Loch Ness monster. 
Reading level: Ages 4-8 
Paperback - 69 pages 

The Essentials of Deeper Sport Diving : An Overview of the Theory and Requirements of Deeper Diving
by John Lippman
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"This volume provides an excellent review of the wide variety of problem areas currently of concern for deeper diving...his coverage is thorough and comprehensive, and provides necessary detailed information...especially in the realm of deeper diving. Therefore, I highly recommend this excellent book to all divers."--Peter B. Bennett, Ph.D., Exec. Dir, Divers Alert Network.      Paperback - 320 pages

Fish & Shellfish 
by James Peterson

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The seafood cookbook that's destined to become a classic, Fish & Shellfish offers a sprawling  range of seafood recipes prepared every way: raw, marinated, cured, smoked, and cooked in every 
fashion under the sun. Readers also receive tips on buying and storing every type of fish, plus great advice on making sauces, pairing wines with dishes, and more. in color. 
Hardcover - 32 pages

The Curse of the Golden Heart 
by Francine Pascal
 
Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. 

It's spring break and twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are taking a scuba-diving course at Pirate's Cove. On their first dive they discover the remains of an old pirate ship and half of a golden 
heart buried in the sand. Soon the twins receive spooky chain letters demanding that what was taken from the sea be returned. Reading level: Ages 9-12 
Paperback - 186 pages

Diving Off the Beaten Track 
by Bob Burgess
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With 18 books and decades of diving to his credit, the author takes you off the beaten track to some of the very best dive resorts and compact liveaboards in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Often remote and rustic, where amenities seldom exist, these operations are for the discriminating diver. In most cases, their clientele is small in number, their operations low key, and their business based on word of mouth and not glitzy advertisements. Includes areas of the Bahamas, Belize, Bay Islands and Cayman Islands. Paperback - 127 pages

The Complete Fish on the Grill
by Barbara Grunes, Phyllis Magida

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With scores of succulent recipes for more than 40 of your favorite fish and shellfish, this illustrated 
step-by-step guide takes the guesswork out of preparing perfectly grilled seafood. You'll find a 
 virtual encyclopedic range of facts on techniques, equipment, and buying and storing fich--tuna, 
marlin, salmon, and more. 

Paperback - 336 pages 

Scuba Diving (Picture library) 
by Norman S. Barrett 
 

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Reading level: Ages 4-8 
School & Library Binding - 32 pages

Scuba Diving 
by Dennis K. Graver
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An internationally recognized scuba diving educator presents the most complete text ever written on diving fundamentals and current topics. Graver also covers modern environmental concerns, equipment needed for various water types, the risks and hazards of diving, and more. 78 color photographs and 47 line drawings. 
Booknews, Inc. , 12/01/93 
An introduction to diving with 125 detailed photos and drawings (many in color). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Paperback - 212 pages.

Cucina Del Mare : Fish and Seafood Italian Style
by Evan Kleiman, Sarajo Frieden (Illustrator)
 
Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours.

Here are more than 200 inspired recipes that will get you from the cookbook to the store to the stove with as little fuss as possible. Clams on the half-shell with pine nuts, pizza with pesto and shrimp, baked monkfish with green olives and orange zest--these imaginative dishes will open up a world of healthy eating opportunites. Illustrations. Hardcover - 320 pages 

The Young Swimmer (Young Enthusiast Series) 
by Jeff Rouse, James Jackson (Illustrator), Peter Coombe
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Everything from basic techniques and safety to diving and race techniques - even water polo - turns  young swimmers into future champions with easy-to-follow photographic stages and straightforward text written by a professional. 

Reading level: Ages 9-12 
Hardcover - 37 pages 
 

Learn to Scuba Dive in a Weekend 
by Reg Vallintine,
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24 hours. 
This excellent study guide to a scuba certification course begins with snorkeling and finning in a pool, then moves on to the more complex skills of using scuba gear for open-water diving. Part of the  Learn in a Weekend series. 
Hardcover - 95 pages
Seafood Secrets Cookbook
by Ainsue Turner (Editor)

Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. 

From simple to elegant these inaginataive recipes can enhance cooking and dining experiences at cocktail parties, luncheons, picnics, or buffets, both ashore and afloat. From appetizers to entrees, Lobster and Linguine in Mustard Sauce to Oysters Gascogne, there are over 400 delicious seafood recipies. Great ideas for family meals and for entertaining. 
Paperback - 248 pages

Scuba Talk Coloring Book
Availability: this title usually ships within 24 hours. 

Reading level: Ages 4-8 
Paperback - 44 pages 
 

 
 
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