Wind Waves: Their Generation and Propagation on the Ocean Surface (Dover Phoenix Editions) (Dover Phoneix Editions)
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| Title | : | Wind Waves: Their Generation and Propagation on the Ocean Surface (Dover Phoenix Editions) (Dover Phoneix Editions) |
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486495116 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 704 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2002-05-01 |
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Classic study offers extended discussion of the data requirements and details of power spectral analysis required to make the wave revolution intelligible. Enhanced and clarified by 270 figures and illustrations, the text outlines the nature of waves and wave processes and methods of measurement and classification. 40 black-and-white photographs. 213 figures. 17 tables.
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Book was great. It is hard to be too sympathetic about a woman whose biggest problem was following the highest fashions in cooking. This was not a pre-planned documentary, after all.
If you're looking for an inspirational book written by a down-to-earth author, then this is it. I admit to a sense of voyeurism attendant to my decision to read about his private life from the POV of his wife. Memoirs are a strange breed of book; the author can basically write anything they want about themselves. That it was her 10th book is not so clear.
Betty Fussell can be cranky and arch. This is a classical book, which is useful to understand the generation of different type of waves.. Their marriage ended, Betty began her life anew, and she eventually wrote this memoir.
Betty Fussell's memoir is that of a woman who is trapped in the mores of the times in which she lives. They met after WW2 when both were students at Pomona College in California. "Always, Rachel" is beginnin
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