The tide : the science and stories behind the greatest force on Earth /
In The Tide, celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together centuries of scientific thinking with the literature and folklore the tide has inspired to explain the power and workings of this most remarkable force. Here is the epic story of the long search to understand the tide, fro...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- To view the lazy tide
- Beyond the micromareal
- Shores of ignorance
- No path through water
- Terra infirma
- Thames mud
- Tides of commerce
- A place of resonance
- In great waters
- Nature's free ride
- Into the maelstrom
- Signal and noise
- Diluvion.