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Index
Cover-Page Half-Title Series Title Dedication Contents Prologue Chapter 1: Meet the Shell-makers
How it all began Which came first, the mollusc or the shell? All the better to rasp/chew/stab/harpoon you with Best foot forward A thousand and one uses for a shell
Chapter 2: How to Build a Shell
The imaginary museum of all possible shells Why shape matters When nature is allowed to play Decoding the mollusc diaries
Chapter 3: Sex, Death and Gems
The oldest gems Signs of inequality Turning cowries into currency
Chapter 4: Shell Food
The whole shucking truth Who ate all the clams? Guardians of the oyster forest
Chapter 5: A Mollusc Called Home
Adventures of an oyster
Chapter 6: Spinning Shell Stories
From myths to reality
Chapter 7: Flight of the Argonauts
Chronoscopes and thunderstones You say ammonite, I say ammonoid The lady and the argonauts
Chapter 8: Hunting for Treasures
Into the Coral Triangle A nautilus interlude Of gentlemen and disappointment
Chapter 9: Bright Ideas
Unlocking the cone snails’ secrets Sticking, gluing and digging Shiny on the inside
Chapter 10: The Sea Butterfly Effect
The problem of pH How to probe an ecosystem Why time matters
Epilogue A Note on Shell-collecting Glossary: A Word in your Shell-like Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Index Plates Copyright
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