The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes and the sinuous designs of

and the sinuous designs of nineteenth-century ironworkers inspired by the Art Nouveau aesthetic

from the era of the legendary Paul Morphy in the 1850s to that of the modern powerhouse Gary Kasparov

also treats in some detail: the gamma function

hand-painted tiles with a rose pattern

The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes and the sinuous designs ofAn expert treatise on the origin and evolution of dunes, this classic work was used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students. The first book to deal exclusively with the behavior of blown sand and related land forms, its accessible style makes it an enduring reference more than half a century after its initial publication. The author studied the sands of North Africa for many years before World