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Stephen Spotte
Anax Grayson, a neuroscientist and physicist, enlists in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and is assigned to an undermanned reconnaissance team. One member, Skeeter Hatfield, came of age…
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Focusing on behavioral ecology, this is the first book to assess societies of both gray wolves and domestic dogs living as urban strays and in the feral state. Spotte draws…
Stephen Spotte’s imaginative novel recounts the tales of a scroungy former alley cat named Jinx, whose memories aren’t just his own but those of other cats who existed before him…
Presents the study of literature and the sea and the author’s search for the mythical place where reason and revelation intersect.
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The Singing Bones recounts the life and times of eighteenth century polymath and explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller, the first European naturalist to visit Alaska.
The first to propose that America…
She’s a comely, kick-ass witch who won’t be put to the stake easily! Witchy Illusions recounts the trial of Mademoiselle Ambrosine, a girl of fifteen accused of witchcraft in France…
Sometimes wiseguys are nice guys! Stephen Spotte's bittersweet novel Wiseguys in Paradise opens at the start of the 1960s. An unnamed drifter from southern Appalachia just out of the Army…
Spotte has an eye for ironic detail, couched in vigorous, pragmatic prose. In him, Hemmingway meets Kafka. -Bruce R. Powers, co-author (with Marshall McLuhan) of The Global Village
The 19…
When the young narrator of Brother’s Ghost happens upon a warehouse filled with corpses of the ‘disappeared ones’, victims of his country’s brutal military regime, he is forced to flee…
In My Watery Self: An Aquatic Memoir, author/scientist Stephen Spotte traces a fascinating trail through a life that began in West Virgina coal camps, drifted through reckless bohemian times of…
A somewhat true historical novel –Cover.
Feral and stray domestic cats occupy many different habitats. They can resist dehydration for months by relying exclusively on the tissue water of their prey allowing them to colonize remote…
Stephen Spotte, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Tarpons arose from an ancient lineage, and just two species exist today, confined to the tropics and subtropics: Megalops atlanticus in the…
Spotte treats public aquariums and zoological parks as cultural derivatives assessable using semiotics and Baudrillard’s models of simulation. He concludes that only modernist zoos can exist in postmodern times, making…
Stephen H. Spotte
The science and common sense behind creating an inexpensive, flourishing marine aquarium Marine Aquarium Keeping is the first complete, step–by–step handbook to bring scientific perspective and insight to the practical…
Dr Stephen Spotte, PhD (Sea Research Foundation Inc and Mystic Aquarium Mystic)
When a Marine fireteam searches an isolated Vietnamese village believed to be a supply depot for the Viet Cong an IED explodes, leaving only one survivor of the five-man unit…
