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"Surface Waves" by 
John V. Wehausen & Edmund V. Laitone

In Encyclopaedia of Physics, Vol. IX, pp. 446-778
Springer Verlag, 1960

Online Edition, 2002 **
(with a new errata and a revised 
subject index for the original article)

http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/SurfaceWaves/

This book gives a brief introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Water Wave Mechanics.