The Water Cure
Title | The Water Cure PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | |
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The Conversation on Water
Title | The Conversation on Water PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea K. Gerlak |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2023-06-06 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1421446200 |
"This title collects the work of thirty top scholars, from client scientists to policy advocates to hydrogeologists, who have published articles for the independent news site The Conversation on critical water related issues, and packages them into the perfect introduction for readers who want to understand current and future threats to water management"--
Water
Title | Water PDF eBook |
Author | Giulio Boccaletti |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2021-09-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1524748234 |
Spanning millennia and continents, a revealing history that “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host). "Far more than a biography of its nominal subject ... The book stands as a compelling history of civilization itself." —The Wall Street Journal Book Review Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boccaletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization. We see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure. Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to—and fundamental reliance on—the most elemental substance on earth.
Talking on Water: Conversations About
Title | Talking on Water: Conversations About PDF eBook |
Author | WHITE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-06-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781595348852 |
You, Me, and Water
Title | You, Me, and Water PDF eBook |
Author | Conservation Foundation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Water-supply |
ISBN |
Water
Title | Water PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Water |
ISBN |
Water Hammer Arrester Corp. V. Tower
Title | Water Hammer Arrester Corp. V. Tower PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1946 |
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