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The Wavewatcher's Companion (Record no. 7583)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781408809761
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 531.11
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pretor-Pinney, Gavin
9 (RLIN) 381946
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Wavewatcher's Companion
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 06 Jun 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 336 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised, he wondered where they had come from, and decided to find out. He soon realised that waves don't just appear on the ocean, they are everywhere around us, and our lives depend on them. From the rippling beats of our hearts, to the movement of food through our digestive tracts and of signals across our brains, waves are the transport systems of our bodies. Everything we see and hear reaches us via light and sound waves, and our information age is reliant on the microwaves and infrared waves used by the telephone and internet infrastructure. From shockwaves unleashed by explosions to torsional waves that cause suspension bridges to collapse, from sonar waves that allow submarines to 'see' with sound to Mexican waves that sweep through stadium crowds...there were waves, it seemed, wherever Gavin looked. But what, he wondered, could they all have in common with ones we splash around in on holiday? By the time he made the ultimate surfer's pilgrimage to Hawaii, Gavin had become a world-class wavewatcher, although he was still rubbish at surfing. And, while this fascinating, funny book may not teach you how to ride the waves, it will show you how to tune into the shapes, colours and forms of life's many undulations.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular science
9 (RLIN) 381947
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 10/07/2016 1 531.11 PKLC006368 29/03/2023 10/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   10/03/2023
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore In Store 14/05/2016   531.11 PKLC003409 14/05/2016 14/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale