Author: David Edgar Cartwright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521797467
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A history of the study of the tides over two millennia, from Ancient Greeks to present sophisticated space-age techniques.
Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Language: en
Pages: 441
Pages: 441
This book examines large-scale outbreaks of red tide along coastal areas, which is associated with fish and shellfish mass mortalities through poisoning. This book discusses the red tide phenomena throughout the world, including biological research results on taxonomy of cyst and vegetative cells of red tide organisms and ecological and
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Everyone is familiar with the daily changes of air temperature. The barometer shows that these are accompanied by daily changes of mass distribution of the atmosphere, and consequently with daily motions of the air. In the tropics the daily pressure change is evident on the barographs; in temperate and higher
Language: en
Pages: 327
Pages: 327
Language: en
Pages: 652
Pages: 652
One of the classic works of marine biology, a favorite for generations, has now been completely revised and expanded. Between Pacific Tides is a book for all who find the shore a place of excitement, wonder, and beauty, and an unsurpassed introductory text for both students and professionals. This book
Language: en
Pages: 567
Pages: 567
Interweaves the events of Tom Wingo's summer in New York and his relationship to Susan Lowenstein, his sister Savannah's beautiful psychiatrist and the complex history of the South Carolinian Wingo family, from World War II, through Vietnam
Language: en
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This book was first published in 2005. When an oceanic tidal wave that is primarily active on the water surface passes an ocean shelf or a region with a seamount, it is split into a less energetic surface wave and other internal modes with different wavelengths and propagation speeds. This
Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Nine people have gathered for the reading of Aurore Gerritsen's will. Some are family, others are strangers. But all will have their futures changed forever when a lifetime of secrets is finally revealed. Aurore Gerritsen left clear instructions: her will is to be read over a four-day period at her
Language: en
Pages: 372
Pages: 372
Barbarian Tides radically subverts the grand narrative of a "Germanic" migration and reinvents the role of barbarians in the Later Roman Empire. Goffart sets out how the fragmented foreign peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity.
Language: en
Pages: 274
Pages: 274
Discusses the underlying structures that support business strategy, covering the basic laws which determine a corporation's success or failure