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Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time--from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change--and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The author tells the story of our most vital resource and how it has shaped our history, tracing three ages of water. The book spans five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched present of the Sun Belt. As the author shows, every human society has been shaped by its relationship to our most essential resource. This narrative moves across the world, from ancient Greece and Rome, whose mighty aqueducts still supply modern cities, to China,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Despite its ferociously wet climate of monsoons and cyclones, Asia contains less usable freshwater than any continent except Antarctica. Nevertheless, more than half the world's population calls Asia home. The struggle for water has been a driving force in modern Asian history. In [this book], historian Sunil Amrith boldly reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers,...
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Un libro para nįos bellamente ilustrado que analiza c̤mo el agua sustenta todas las formas de vida, c̤mo las personas aprovechamos los beneficios que nos aporta y por qǔ debemos conservarla. El agua es esencial para la vida. De hecho, ¡el 60 por ciento de un ser humano adulto est̀ compuesto por agua! La bebemos, nos bąamos en ella y miles de criaturas viven en este medio. Sin embargo, nuestro planeta se est̀ quedando sin agua, con menos...
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