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| Title: | Ebb & Flow
: Tides & Life on Our Once & Future Planet |
| Author: | Tom Koppel |
| ISBN: | 1550027263 : 9781550027266 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos & charts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 292 |
| Weight: | .48 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - September 2007 |
| List Price: | 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Oceanography (seas): World history: BCE to c500 CE: Geology & the lithosphere |
This fascinating book shows us how the understanding of tidal movement has been crucial to human existence on planet Earth. Drawing on history, science and personal memories, he demonstrates that a subject we take for granted affects all our lives. The author weaves together three grand narratives exploring how tides have affected the physical shape of the land, how they have affected human history and development, and how science has worked to understand the surprisingly complex way in which they actually work.
Prologue; High Water and History: India, China and How the Ancient World Learned About the Moon and Tides; Living by the Tides: Author's Daily Activities Run in Sync with the Local Tide Tables; Heaven and Earth: Renaissance and lsaac Newton's Great Breakthrough in Tidal Theory; Into the Maelstrom: Powerful Tidal Currents Generate Killer Whirlpools; The Shape of Tides: The Great Variety of Shorelines Created by Different Tidal Regimes; Age of Discovery: European Explorers Learn How Complex the Tides Can Be; Tidal Tempest: Fast-Flowing Waters Doom Many a Ship; Theory Meets Practice: Tides as Great Rotating Wave Systems; The Great Wheel of Life: High Water and Coastal Biology; Sea and Sky in Harmony: Oscillating Waters and Modern Tidal Forecasting; Holding Back the Tide: How Civilisations Have Coped with High Water and Low; The Big Picture: Climate Change and World-wide Tidal Patterns; Turning the Tide: Tapping the Energy of the Oceans; Once and Future Tides: A Receding Moon and Drifting Continents; Epilogue: A Trip to the Beach.
