The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities

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If, like many Americans, you believe the ongoing tragedy of Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, you need to read this book. In the coming years and decades, the safety of your region, your town, your home may depend on the warnings you'll encounter on these pages. That's because the exact same conditions that created the Katrina catastrophe and destroyed New Orleans are being replicated right now along virtually every inch of U.S. coastline.

In The Ravaging Tide, Mike Tidwell, a renowned advocate for the environment and an award-winning journalist, issues a call to arms and confronts us with some unsettling facts. Consider:

In the next seventy-five years, much of the Florida peninsula could lie under ocean water.

So could much of Lower Manhattan, including all of the hallowed ground zero area.

Major hurricanes like Katrina, scientists say, are becoming much more frequent and more powerful.

Glacier National Park in Montana will have to change its name, as it is rapidly losing all of its thirty-five remaining glaciers.

The snows atop Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, so memorably evoked in the Hemingway story, have already disappeared.

The fault, Tidwell argues, lies mostly with the U.S. government and the energy choices it has encouraged Americans to make over the decades. Those policies are now actively bringing rising seas and gigantic hurricanes -- the lethal forces that killed the Big Easy -- crashing into every coastal city in the country and indeed the world. The Bush administration's own reports and studies (some of which it has tried to suppress) explicitly predict more intense storms and up to three feet of sea-level rise by 2100 due to planetary warming. The danger is clear: Whether the land sinks three feet per century (as in New Orleans over the past 100 years) or sea levels rise three feet per century (as in the rest of the world over the next 100 years), the resulting calamity is the same.

Although Mike Tidwell sounds the clarion in The Ravaging Tide, this is ultimately an optimistic book, one that offers a clear path to a healthier and safer world for us and our descendants. He writes of trend-setting U.S. states like New York and California that are actively cutting greenhouse gases. And he heeds his own words: In one delightful personal chapter, he takes us on a tour of his suburban Washington, D.C., home and demonstrates how he and many of his neighbors have weaned themselves from the fossil-fuel lifestyle. Even when the government is slow to change, there are steps we as families can take to, yes, change the world.

Customer Reviews:

Climate Change is Real .......2007-02-21

The flooding of New Orleans resulted from a combination of effects: subsiding land, sea level increase, destruction of protecting wetlands, and of course a violent storm. Tidwell's thesis is that sea level will continue to rise and tropical storms and hurricanes will increase in intensity, all as a result of climate change. The entire East Coast of the United States will be as vulnerable as was New Orleans. Most of Miami and the rest of Florida average just a few feet above sea level. While New York City is mostly on higher ground, the author observes that the infrastructure, the subways system for example, is well below ground.

As world temperatures rise, melting or collapsing glaciers will add water to the ocean. Higher world temperatures will also mean that the water already in the ocean will expand and cause an additional rise in the sea level. Thus, land that is today at or slightly above sea level will become land that is below sea level. Certainly, whether or not storms grow more intense (this is still being debated in the scientific community), global warming will increase the level of the ocean. All of our coastal cities may go the way of New Orleans.

Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report in which it stated that the Earth is warming and that most of the warming is a result of human activity. This is also the overwhelming view of the scientific community. My first encounter with the effects of global warming was a hike in the 1980s to the foot of the Paradise Glacier on Mt. Ranier to visit the ice caves. I was disappointed to find that the famous caves were mostly gone. The caves had disappeared because the glacier itself was retreating. We now know that glaciers all over the world are melting. A recent headline caught my eye; "Iceberg off New Zealand becomes tourist mecca," AP, November 21, 2006. The residents of New Zealand could look out their windows to see pieces of Antarctica floating by.

It is not clear what it will take to get our US government to take steps to limit the emission of greenhouse gases. We have already lost one major city. Will we have to see a few more go before we take action? Tidwell does a good job of presenting the need for individual and governmental action.

I also recommend "With Speed and Violence" by Fred Pearce. a book about recent scientific investigations and their implications for global warming.

A Great, must-read book.......2006-12-30

I loved this book so much that I've read the first chapter aloud to three appreciative people on the phone, and I'm also planning to buy a copy for every Maryland state legislator. (Let me know if you do the same in your state.)

Mike Tidwell writes beautifully. Even though I've seen An Inconvenient Truth, and heard Bill McKibbon speak, I learned plenty from The Ravaging Tide that I hadn't already heard before. Tidwell shares history, science, policy, despair (when we don't act on clean energy policy), and promise (when we do).

Yes, it may be odd, but I was walking (not driving!) down sidewalks while reading this book. I couldn't put it down, until the very last page.

Mike Tidwell is a former journalist and travel writer for the Washington Post and the National Geographic Traveler.

Not the Best Book on the Subject.......2006-12-09

When I ordered this book, I had great hopes for its contents. I was looking for a good "summer project" book that dealt with global warming and alternative energy. It was to be used by a high school environmental class.

What I wound up with was a book that dealt with both subjects, as well as with the Hurricane Katrina disaster, but it was so poorly written and biased that I would not be able to use it in a classroom setting. The writing in the book was extremely redundant; repeating the same information over and over again. I think the book could have been written without the redundancy in about half the number of pages. And, that change would have made the book much more readable and enjoyable.

In addition, the author clearly has an agenda and, while he may think he is presenting his case objectively, he falls far short. It is easy to agree, for the most part, with much of the science presented. It is his premise that falls short. I am a dedicated environmentalist, and found many of his solutions to be totally unworkable.

He describes his work with his own home to reduce his carbon footprint. One method he used was to heat his home with a corn burning stove. It sounds good, but how many Americans, who drive three blocks to a store, will put up with hauling 5 gallon buckets of corn to their stoves on a regular basis. Not many I would propose, unless they have a lot of free time. Some of his other suggestions, as well, are equally unworkable on a large scale.

Finally, I have a problem with his bashing Bush constantly. I am no fan of Bush, but he is not the sole reason that the US has done little to nothing about its carbon footprint and global warming. Bush is a part of the problem, but lets put the blame where it needs to go. Clinton did little during his term and the same can be said for the elder Bush. Also, the Congress has been woefully inept at dealing with the issue.

There are a number of books about this subject that are well written and objective. This is neither. I would suggest you save your money and buy one of the more comprehensive books available.

Hard to Believe.......2006-11-27

Sorry ... this book is neither a parable nor a polemic - it's just another eco-manipulator at work. Tidwell says that Katrina destroyed New Orleans. Of course it did not. It was the levee failures, not the surge tide, that doomed the city. This point is apparently far too subtle for Tidwell to understand, and yet it is crucial. Perhaps we need to change the world to prevent future surge tides, but we definitely need to improve the levees - and the disasterously corrupt local political atmosphere that allowed the city to drown - if we want to save New Orleans.

And of course, this is one of the many examples of Tidwell's raging hypocracy. He never asks the basic question, why save New Orleans at all? If Tidwell is right, it makes no sense to repopulate it. If the city has subsided to the point where it basically replaces the marshes it once drained in a move that accelerated the Katrina disaster, why not simply let nature take its course and allow the flooded land to become the new buffer? We are not lessening any human tragedy by helping people move right back onto the "landing strip" (Tidwell, demonstrating his utter lack of imagination, uses this metaphor a dozen times in the book) for the next Katrina.

And by the way, where was the 2006 Katrina? Tidwell virtually guarantees a cycle of doom, with each year bringing more and more devastation caused by global warming. And yet, why wasn't New Orleans swamped in 2006? Why weren't Miami and Savanah and New York destroyed too? What's that? You can't use climate changes to predict the weather? But that's virtually the entire basis for Tidwell's book.

That and, as noted above, his shameless hypocracy. Another small example (there are too many to count) - throughout the book, he cites reports by insurance companies that say the cost and impact of bad weather are increasing because of global warming. But then, when he wants to have a corn granery built in his town to make his life easier, he discovers that insurance companies won't cover the risk without a huge premium. This decision - shared, Tidwell tells us, by every company he contacted - threatens his green goodness.

What would a hypocrite do? Of course - when the insurance companies agrees with Tidwell's premise, they are right - in fact, they are unimpeachable proof of his agrument. But when they don't do what he wants, the very same paragons of truth suddenly become idiots.

If you want to know how Tidwell ultimately prevailed (by having his fellow-citizens assume the cost of the risk that he, in his eco-purity, could not possibly be expected to pay), you will have to slog through the book on your own.

Good luck. But that's not all you will live through, in all liklihood.

In just the last 30 years, we have survived so much that the eco-manipulators have claimed would kill us - global cooling, nuclear power, nuclear winter, nuclear war, nuclear waste, the loss of the ozone layer, DDT, swine flu, avian flu, the Ebola virus, "hot spot" viruses, "Frankenstein" foods, and mercury in tuna, in tooth fillings and in vaccines, to name just a few - that either global warming will be the BIG ONE, as we were assured very positively that all the others were as well, or we'll use our inventiveness and imagination to find a solution that doesn't kill us ... as Tidwell and his kind move onto the next disaster waiting to be uncovered and sold to a gullible public.

Alarming Yet Hopeful.......2006-09-20

This is a highly emotional work. Mike Tidwell predicted the disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita several years before they happened, and he is justifiably angry that his warnings were not heeded. In The Ravaging Tide Tidwell expands on his earlier work to explain why human activities such as building levees actually increased the destruction at New Orleans, and to warn that other coastal areas now face the same sort of threat.

At times Tidwell waxes somewhat repetitive, making the same point over and over again, but this stems from the overwhelming frustration he feels over public and government inaction. He also relies heavily on secondary sources such as Jared Diamond's Collapse (to which he refers repeatedly) so that those of us who have read that work feel Tidwell's own work is little more than a condensed version of other books.

Tidwell is strongest when he concentrates on explaining how so much of what we face from climate change can be alleviated or even avoided through common sense measures, such as using more energy efficient appliances or requiring energy using companies to upgrade to already existing and far more environment friendly technology. He is also at his most eloquent when condemning the fecklessness of the Bush Administration on energy policy and climate change.

Tidwell's work, like those of Jared Diamond, Tim Flannery, Eugene Linden, and Elizabeth Kolbert, should be read by everyone concerned for the future of our world.

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Earth Science Made Simple is Simple
Just What I Wanted

Earth Science Made Simple
Edward F. Phd Albin
Manufacturer: Broadway
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ASIN: 0767917030
Release Date: 2004-11-09

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A user’s guide to the planet.

We see it every day, yet we understand so little about Earth. From minerals to meteorites, this book covers every aspect of the science of our world. It breaks this complex discipline into four major sections: geology, oceanography, meteorology, and planetary science, and it gives an overview of the processes of each. Complete with interactive experiments and a glossary, this book makes the study of our planet—and other planets— easier than ever.

Topics covered include

*rocks
*plate tectonics
*geologic processes and time
*the sea floor and shoreline
*currents
*waves and tides
*atmospheric conditions and layering
*clouds, winds, and storms
*exploration of the planets
*natural satellites
*asteroids and comets.

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Earth Science Made Simple is Simple.......2007-09-09

Great overview of the general topics in earth science. The only thing that I wish the book included would be question sets to review the material. I would use this book more as a resource for myself than my students.

Just What I Wanted.......2007-03-09

I was looking for a basic science book to introduce Earth Science to my kids. Too many of the books I looked at were "dumbed down". I just wanted basic coverage of science without politically correct commentary. This books gives nice coverage to the topics without obvious slanting towards anyone's agenda. I like it. (Yes, biomes are threatened, but I'd like to teach my kids about them before I talk about why they are threatened.) All in all, a good basic book.

The Storm Tide: A History And Tour Guide Of The War In The East, From Fredericksburg To Mine Run, 1862 to 1863 (The Civil War Explorer Series)

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The Storm Tide: A History And Tour Guide Of The War In The East, From Fredericksburg To Mine Run, 1862 to 1863 (The Civil War Explorer Series)
Jim Miles
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 1581822979

Book Description

Eighteen sixty-three began with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the field and ended with the Southern armies in tatters but still engaging George C. Meade's Army of the Potomac. THE STORM TIDE traces the history of the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and provides a series of easy-to-follow tour guides to the battlefields today.

In addition to a live narrative of the battles, the book contains 239 period photographs and line drawings, 234 photographs that illustrate the driving tours, 102 original maps, 43 sidebars on military strategy, 103 biographical sketches, a chronology of key battles and important events, sources for additional travel information, a bibliography, and an index.

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Husband Captures His Wife's Affection

Storm Tide (Tide Trilogy)
Elisabeth Ogilvie
Manufacturer: Down East Books
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ASIN: 0892722177

Book Description

The struggles, hardship, and joy of one woman's life on a Maine island are brought to life in this haunting and enduringly popular trilogy, the first three books of the Bennett's Island series. Elisabeth Ogilvie tells the story of Joanna Bennett and her colorful life on Bennett's Island with a sensitivity and truthfulness born of her own early years on isolated Criehaven, the real Bennett's Island.

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Husband Captures His Wife's Affection.......2007-02-03

First published in 1945, "Storm Tide" is the second book in the Joanna Bennett series. This is the second Elisabeth Ogilvie book I've read. "Rowan Head" captured my imagination and put a smile on my face. This book creates the delightful setting of Bennett's Island off the coast of Maine near a coastal village of Brigport. As the story begins, Joanna returns to the island with her new husband Nils Sorenson. We are introduced to Joanna's brothers Mark and his wife Helmi, the good-natured Stevie & the moody Owen. The exposition recounts Joanna's stormy marriage to Alec and his death. Less passion and more Joanna's reliance on Nils to take her back to Bennett's Island mark her new marriage. Nils keeps looking for a loving wife, but increasingly becomes alienated by her lack of affection. The crisis in the relationship caps as Joanna reveals that her love making in the marriage bed is a loveless act of duty as part of the wife's job. At this, Nils removes himself from the island and heads to his relatives' mainland home to work on a boat they are repairing. The separation tests the limits of Joanna's pride. Her eight-year-old daughter Ellen misses her stepfather. A subplot focuses action on an abandoned boat Nils finds drifting. He tows the boat to shore. The missing fisherman, Winslow Fowler, has a brother Randy who comes and hits on Joanna. When she rejects him, rumors mysteriously spread throughout Brigport that Nils not only found the boat but murdered Winslow. This is compounded by an effort by the Fowler family to drive the Bennett family off their island. The book climaxes as the Bennett clan and the residents of the island come to town and confront the rumors. From a feminist analysis, we might find the love story dated as Joanna eventually capitulates, seeks Nils, and falls in love with him and assumes her "rightful" place as the husband's helper rather than as an independent assertive woman. On the other hand, it is a sweet love story where the husband eventually causes his wife to fall in love with him. "Storm Tide" is a gripping story from the World War II era; one that deserves a modern audience. Enjoy!

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Storm Tide

Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0380005514

Secrets Of The Tide: Tide And Tidal Current Analysis And Applications, Storm Surges And Sea Level Trends (Marine Science)

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Secrets Of The Tide: Tide And Tidal Current Analysis And Applications, Storm Surges And Sea Level Trends (Marine Science)
John Boon
Manufacturer: Horwood Publishing Limited
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HOW many impossible things can happen before breakfast?
A crisply paced thriller
aussie gay page turner
That's Australian for page-turner.

Storm Tide
Mel Keegan
Manufacturer: Gay Men's Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0854492275

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HOW many impossible things can happen before breakfast?.......1999-11-28

This has all the speed of EQUINOX with a sound modern day setting and another very sound relationship between two strong characters. Sean loses the plot at times, but Rob is very believable as the rookie trailing a far more dynamic partner through apparently endless trials and tribulations. Once started, the plot never slows up, which occasionally makes you wonder if the characters wouldn't just collapse from sheer exhaustion in the real world, but this is written in Keegan's usual, excellent and thoroughly absorbing style and keeps you involved with the characters and their partnership up to the very end. Keegan writes real relationships- not always perfect, not always steady, but based on two different people and an enduring love. Rob and Sean are understandable, from the start where they are trying to patch their faltering relationship to the end where Rob's insecurity comes far enough out for Sean to see it. How many writers can get inside people's heads like this? At times I wish the plot would step aside and let a little more of this wonderful detail too, but then this is a thriller. One of Keegan's best - I wish he'd write a few more in modern settings.

A crisply paced thriller.......1999-08-16

After a shaky bit of exposition, in which the author attempts to explain the protagonists'marital woes, this thriller shifts into high gear and never lets up until its explosive finale. Sean and Rob are lovers vacationing off the Australian coast who inadvertently run into drug smugglers and gun runners. They spend the remainder of the book trying to save their good-looking hides from sure extinction (or, in Rob's case, white slavery). Keegan has paired the boys off with a villian every bit as peripatetic and determined as The Terminator or Jason from the Friday the 13th series. Chandler is a study in sheer human relentlessness. A previous reviewer has cited as a fault the seeming lack of romantic conflict between Sean and Rob. I should say they've got conflict a-plenty! Besides, it is their steadfast, uncomplicated love which helps them survive a very dangerous situation. It also adds a note of sweetness to an otherwise very taut tale. I hope Mr. Keegan is plotting a sequel featuring Sean and Rob. Storm Tide is a hugely entertaining book. But be sure to take Drammamine first.

aussie gay page turner.......1998-12-31

Mel Keegan has been best known for his gay sci-fi novels, but this is a change of scenery, setting a modern day thriller off the coast of South Australia. Our intrepid heroes, Sean and Rob, seem to have a knack of finding their way into trouble, when all they want to do is have sex. While not the most romantic pair ever to have graced the planet, they are the archtypical strong macho characters needed for this novel to be taken seriously by the reader. The descriptions of the trials caused by floods are excellent and gave it a really eerie atmosphere which would make a great movie. Its very difficult to put down, it really rattles along and reaches an acceptable, but a little bloody conclusion. Thoroughly enjoyed, and I'd really love Mr. keegan to produced some more homegrown stuff--as there really aren't too many others writing in a similar genre.

That's Australian for page-turner........1997-08-09

It's "one damn thing after another" (as Mark Twain used to say) for lovers Sean Brodie and Rob Markham when they try to salvage their foundering relationship with a fishing trip off the Australian coast, and run afoul of drug smugglers.

Mel Keegan sets a killing pace and keeps it up to the explosive finish in this contemporary thriller. If the novel has a flaw it lies in the lack of conflict, the lack of romantic tension between Sean and Rob. They simply get along too well from the start. The only explanation offered for their previous trouble (and Sean's cheating) is that when Rob got a fulltime job he no longer had time to nurture the relationship. Huh?

So maybe Keegan isn't one of the great romance writers of our generation. He still knows how to tell a cracking good story with enough action, thrills and suspense for a till-your-eyes-fall-out-of-your-head read

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Yawn

A good, old-fashioned "page turner"

An engrossing, intelligent novel

An unusual book, engrossing but manipulative.

Absorbing; a fun read

Storm Tide
Marge Piercy , and Ira Wood
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0449001571
Release Date: 1999-12-07

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After his dreams of playing baseball in the Majors fall short and his marriage ends, David Greene returns to his small hometown on Cape Cod. There he meets the eminent professor, Gordon Stone, and his beautiful wife, Judith Silver, with whom he soon falls into a passionate affair. Into this explosive mix, a young woman appears--a single mother at the end of her emotional rope. Crystal desperately needs David. Yet caught between two women, David bears witness to a heartbreaking turn of events that seems as inevitable as the push and pull of ocean waves. . . .

Customer Reviews:

Yawn.......2002-08-31

I love Marge Piercy's books....I've read Braided Lives, Vida, Summer People, Gone to Soldiers and now this. It's not that it was all that disjointed which it was, it's that the story seemed to be something Mr. Wood and Ms. Piercy cooked up in their kitchen and forgot to let us in on the secret. I really disliked this book.

A good, old-fashioned "page turner".......2001-06-25

Once I started reading it, I had to pace myself to make it last a little longer. The characters are believable and engaging. The small town setting is very true to life. I especially enjoyed the technique of reading each of the principal characters perspectives in the form of separate chapters, with the main character being written in first person. It gives you the ability to really get into each of their heads. The only downside for me was what seems like an over reliance on sexual descriptions. Sex is important to the plot and a character motivating factor, but the emphasis on sex, for my personal tastes, bordered on gratuitous.

An engrossing, intelligent novel.......2000-03-14

Beautifully and seamlessly written, the husband and wife team of Piercy and Wood have crafted an intelligent novel, which is both political thriller and mystery. The story is as erotic and seductive as the relationship between David, Judith and Crystal is. STORM TIDE is filled with strong images of religion and nature which play an important role to the story. Smart, clever and definitely a page-turner, STORM TIDE shouldn't be missed.

An unusual book, engrossing but manipulative........2000-02-27

"Storm Tide," by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood, starts out well. At first, it is an absorbing story of a small island in Massachusetts, where there are no secrets. The island is depicted lovingly as a place where people can live out their lives in a beautiful setting. As the narrative proceeds, the lives of the various residents of Saltash Island become intertwined. The main characters are David, a former baseball player who never lived up to his potential, and Judith, a married lawyer with whom David becomes romantically involved. Their relationship is threatened by Crystal, a scheming woman with a son who moves in (literally) on David and tries to take over his life. Complicating matters still further, David runs for political office on the island, which challenges the political machine set up years ago by the island's boss, Johnny Lynch. To their credit, Piercy and Wood try to make the characters three-dimensional. However, the authors throw too many complications into the story. They try to deal with the characters' ties to Judaism, their eroticism, their political involvement, and their family ties all at once. The plot becomes much too convoluted. By the end of the book, I was weary of all the machinations invented by the authors. Too much goes on at once to keep the narrative flowing smoothly. This is too bad, since the book began quite well and seemed to be heading in an interesting direction.

Absorbing; a fun read.......1998-10-02

I have enjoyed several of Piercy's other works and I am always intrigued by the way she takes "odd" relationships, turns them around til you, the reader, see them differently--as optimal. While I enjoyed the whole dynamic, the character of Crystal was truly well drawn. Unfortunately, I have known women like Crystal, for whom drawing and binding a partner to you in a pathologic fashion was their conception of love. Intriguing and a great read.

Changing Sea Levels: Effects of Tides, Weather and Climate

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Incredibly comprehensive, yet lightweight and easy to read

Changing Sea Levels: Effects of Tides, Weather and Climate
David Pugh
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521532183

Book Description

Flooding of coastal communities is one of the major causes of environmental disasters world-wide. This textbook explains how sea levels are affected by astronomical tides, weather effects, ocean circulation and climate trends. Based on courses taught by the author in the U.K. and the U.S., it is aimed at undergraduate students at all levels, with non-basic mathematics being confined to Appendices and a website http://publishing.cambridge.org/resources/0521532183/.

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Incredibly comprehensive, yet lightweight and easy to read.......2007-01-11

I'm a geologist who needed to learn about tides -- not something that is directly related to my field. This book is amazing. It has clearly answered all my questions with enough depth to be incredibly useful, yet also with enough clarity and simplicity that a non-specialist should have no trouble whatsoever understanding the subject. It's well indexed and extremely well organized, it comes with many helpful figures and graphs, and it's written in a style that's easy to read. It could be one of the best text books I've ever consulted, in any subject. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.

Crimson Storm Surge: Alabama Football, Then and Now

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Crimson Storm Surge: Alabama Football, Then and Now
Christopher J. Walsh
Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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In Crimson Storm Surge, veteran sports reporter Christopher Walsh not only recounts Alabama football's colorful history, but also focuses on its own season on the brink under the guidance of new coach Mike Shula, who overcame the Price scandal and other distractions to lead the team to bowl eligibility in its first year off probation. The book concludes with some thoughts on the Tide's promising future--and a view toward its first national championship since 1992.

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