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H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness: Reflections on the Historicity of Stuff
Ivan Illich
Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture
Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture
In the course of this brilliant essay the author traces the way water has been shorn of its mythic associations and reduced to an urban cleaning fluid. The histories of medicine, art, mythology, architecture, technology, and conceptions of the...
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Waves, Tides and Shallow-Water Processes
Butterworth
Butterworth-Heinemann
Butterworth-Heinemann
Completely revised and updated for its second edition, this volume belongs to the Open University series on oceanography. It is designed so that it can be read on its own or studied as part of the Open University third-level course, S330...
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Biogeochemistry of Wetlands: Science and Applications
K. Ramesh Reddy, Ronald D. DeLaune
CRC
CRC
Wetland ecosystems maintain a fragile balance of soil, water, plant, and atmospheric components in order to regulate water flow, flooding, and water quality. Marginally covered in traditional texts on biogeochemistry or on wetland soils, ...
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Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?
Sandra Postel
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
The overriding lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail. As we enter the third millennium the question arises: Will ours be any different? For 6,000 years, irrigation has ranked among the most powerful tools of human...
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Whose Water Is It?: The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World
Douglas Jehl
National Geographic
National Geographic
Less than one percent of the Earth's water is fresh water available for drinking, irrigation, and industry.By 2025, the UN expects more than half the world's population will lack sufficient water to cover basic needs. Each and every day two million...
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Soil and Water Conservation Engineering
Delmar D. Fangmeier, William J. Elliot, Stephen R. Workman, Rodney L. Huffman, Glenn O. Schwab
Delmar Cengage Learning
Delmar Cengage Learning
This book provides a professional text for undergraduate and graduate agricultural and biological engineering students interested in soil and water conservation in rural and urban areas. Subject matter includes all the engineering phases of soil...
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