for food and fuel. One day, he may tap the sea-bed as an important new source of key minerals. Men and governments have yet to mark the seas with ruin, but preventing ruin, given man's proclivities, has not been easy. Here, marking the Year of the Oceans, historian Susan Schlee chronicles the evolution of marine science; political sci- entist Ann Hollick considers the use and misuse of the oceans and the United Nations' decade-long attempt to fashion a work- able Law of the Sea amid conflicting...