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All about Waterby Melvin BergerISBN 0590467611 (0-590-46761-1)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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Blue Rooms : Ripples, Rivers, Pools and Other Watersby John JeromeISBN 0805026207 (0-8050-2620-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Rooms : Ripples, Rivers, Pools and Other Waters'Book summary:Jerome, the author of the fine study On Mountains and many other books, turns his attention to his lifelong quest for "perfect waters" in this limpid book of natural history and personal reflection. He takes his readers to little-known streams like the Mountain Fork River of Oklahoma, the scene of his earliest memories, and the turbulent Raquette River in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. He dips into the warm, healing waters of the Caribbean and the cold depths of Canadian lakes, and examines the play of water in the human imagination, an influence that has been profound in music, art, and literature. Jerome writes with evident love for his subject, and his lyrical book speaks to the power of waters to make us whole. [via]
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The Book of Watersby Steven SchwartzISBN 0891041400 (0-89104-140-0)
Hardcover, A & W Publishers
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Waterby Marc ReisnerISBN 0140178244 (0-14-017824-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water'Book summary:The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. This is the story of the early settlers, lured by promises of paradise. The author documents the rivalry between government giants and other institutions, in the competition to transform the West. [via]
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- Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water: ISBN 0140104321 (0-14-010432-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books - Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water: ISBN 0670199273 (0-670-19927-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water: ISBN 0140178244 (0-14-017824-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water: ISBN 0140104321 (0-14-010432-1)
Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0805013199 (0-8050-1319-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Cradle'Book summary:Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]
Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the Westby Charles F. WilkinsonISBN 155963149X (1-55963-149-X)
Softcover, Island Pr
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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fateby Marc ReisnerISBN 0679420118 (0-679-42011-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate'Book summary:In A Dangerous Place, Marc Reisner, the author of Cadillac Desert, the classic history of the American West and its fatal dependence on water, returns to the subject that never ceased to seduce him: California.
Writing with his signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Reisner leads us through Californias improbable history and rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the achievement of this, the last great desert civilization, hinges on Californias denial of its own inescapable fate. Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, mere prologues to a future cataclysm that will result in destruction of such magnitude that the only recourse will be to rebuild from the ground up. Reisner concludes A Dangerous Place with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of such a disaster and its horrifying aftereffects. [via]More editions of A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate:
A Drop Around the Worldby Barbara Shaw McKinney, Michael S. MaydakISBN 1883220726 (1-883220-72-6)
Softcover, Dawn Pubns
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The Drop in My Drinkby Meredith Hooper, Christopher CoadyISBN 0670876186 (0-670-87618-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonderby Walter WickISBN 0590221973 (0-590-22197-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder'Book summary:The curious, protean nature of water has fascinated people for ages, and Walter Wick--the photographer of Scholastic's highly acclaimed I Spy series--is no exception. Wick is a great admirer and collector of 100-year-old science books where, according to his afterword, "Even the simplest experiments appeared as if improbable or impossible things were happening. Intrigued, I recreated some of the experiments and photographed them with my camera. The results seemed magical, but not because of any photographic trick; it was only the forces of nature at work. It was from these explorations that the idea for this book emerged."
As you're admiring the "crown" created by a water drop splashing into a pool, or how many water droplets can fit on the head of a pin (the smallest droplet on the pin contains more than three trillion water molecules), you'll learn about evaporation, condensation, snowflakes, how clouds form, and more amazing water tricks. Wick's other artfully composed photographs include a "wild wave" caused by a brown egg dropped in a water glass, soap bubbles with a "shimmering liquid skin," a snowflake at 60 times its actual size, and dew on a spider web. Like many old-fashioned science books, A Drop of Water ends with a list of simple experiments may lure the young reader into the world of scientific investigation. Unlike many old science books, this one also stands on its own as a beautiful, notable collection of photographs. [via]
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Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399128964 (0-399-12896-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 0441013597 (0-441-01359-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: La Batalla De Corrin'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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- Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 0441172717 (0-441-17271-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 044100590X (0-441-00590-X)
Hardcover, Ace Books - Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 0881036366 (0-88103-636-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 8470021818 (84-7002-181-8)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc - Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 0441013597 (0-441-01359-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
- Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 0441172717 (0-441-17271-7)
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Dune:La Yihad Butleriana / Dune:the Butlerian Yihad: La Yihad Butleriana/ the Butlerian Yihadby Brian Herbert, Random House Mondadori, Domingo SantosISBN 849759682X (84-9759-682-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Environmental Chemistry: Air and Water Pollutionby H. Stephen Stoker, Spencer L. SeagerISBN 0673079783 (0-673-07978-3)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman
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Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water in a World About to Run Outby Jeffrey RothfederISBN 158542367X (1-58542-367-X)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Every Drop for Sale : The World's Desperate Fight over Water in a World about to Run Outby Jeffrey RothfederISBN 1585421146 (1-58542-114-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Drop for Sale : The World's Desperate Fight over Water in a World about to Run Out'Book summary:As oil was the crisis of the twentieth century, water is the crisis of the twenty-first. Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit for human consumption, but global consumption of fresh water is doubling every twenty years. Water has become perhaps our most precious commodity-a life-sustaining but increasingly rare and privatized resource. A dramatic gap exists between those who have adequate water for survival and those who don't, and tensions over water in some areas of the world hover just below open war.
From Europe to Asia to Africa to America, award-winning journalist Jeffrey Rothfeder has visited the world's hot spots with the least amount of water, and also places where there is so much of it that plans are in the works to sell the excess to the highest bidder. In this compelling narrative account of our world in turmoil over water, he describes the issues and struggles of the people on all sides of the water crisis: from the scarred survivors of bizarre water-management practices, to those who are willing to die for water to sustain their families and crops, to the scientists and leaders who are trying to set things straight.
Important, provocative, and immensely readable, Every Drop for Sale explores a fascinating critical dilemma: as we run out of it, is water a fundamental right of everybody on Earth or just a human need that can be bought and sold like any other commodity? [via]More editions of Every Drop for Sale : The World's Desperate Fight over Water in a World about to Run Out:
Flowforms: The Rhythmic Power of Waterby John WilkesISBN 0863153925 (0-86315-392-5)
Softcover, Floris Books
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Fluoride : Drinking Ourselves to Death?by Barry A. Groves, Vyvyan HowardISBN 0717132749 (0-7171-3274-9)
Softcover, Gill & MacMillan, Limited
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The Glass Lakeby Maeve BinchyISBN 0783811187 (0-7838-1118-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Hidden Messages in Waterby Masaru EmotoISBN 1582701148 (1-58270-114-8)
Softcover, Beyond Words Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Messages in Water'Book summary:The Hidden Messages In Water explores water's susceptibility to human words, emotions and thoughts. Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto has been researching this new field of science by freezing samples of water that have been exposed to either positive or negative words, emotions and music. Through photographs Dr. Emoto has found that water exposed to positive influences produces beautiful, perfectly formed crystals, while water exposed to negativity produces ugly, malformed crystals. Because the worls and our bodies are both composed of 70per cent water, the power to change the essence of water means that humans have the power to evoke change on a global or personal scale, by way of water. [via]
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I Am Waterby Jean Marzollo, Judith MoffattISBN 0590265873 (0-590-26587-3)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Illustrated Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0425038912 (0-425-03891-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illustrated Dune'Book summary:New, unused, never read condition+ [via]
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The King Of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empireby Mark Arax, Rick WartzmanISBN 1586482815 (1-58648-281-5)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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- Life of Pi: ISBN 0156030209 (0-15-603020-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books - Life of Pi: ISBN 0151008116 (0-15-100811-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Life of Pi: ISBN 0676978991 (0-676-97899-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Life of Pi: ISBN 0606284001 (0-606-28400-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Life of Pi: ISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Waterby Philip BallISBN 0520230086 (0-520-23008-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water'Book summary:Billed as "A Biography of Water," Life's Matrix would seem to have taken on a nearly insurmountable challenge. Yet author Philip Ball, science writer and consulting editor for Nature, covers the very interesting chemistry and physics of the substance and our species' long relationship with it without losing the reader--after all, each of us is mostly made of the wet stuff. From the ancients' conception of water as an element, recognizing its importance and primacy among terrestrial matter, to our current understanding of the intricate dance of hydrogen bonds that give water its unique, life-giving properties, Ball always finds the right angle to keep the story compelling. Chapters covering the nuts and bolts of water, which the reader might reasonably expect to be a bit dry, consistently remind us of its crucial role in so many aspects of our lives, from ocean currents to irrigation to tears. Some of the cutting-edge scientific reports are weirdly fascinating--the discovery of several different conformations of liquid and solid water and their odd behavior will provoke plenty of brow-furrowing, even if none of us will ever find ice-nine cubes in our cocktails at happy hour. The book closes with the now-obligatory look at what a mess we've made of the book's subject when seen as a natural resource, and offers potential short- and long-term solutions. Facing these issues is vital if we want to remember "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" as great poetry rather than apocalyptic prophecy. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirthby Blake GumprechtISBN 0801866421 (0-8018-6642-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Magic School Busby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590403605 (0-590-40360-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic School Bus'Book summary:When Ms. Frizzle, the strangest teacher in school, takes her class on a field trip to the waterworks, everyone ends up experiencing the water purification system from the inside. [via]
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The Magic School Bus at the Waterworksby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590403613 (0-590-40361-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic Inc.
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The Magic School Bus Ups and Downs : A Book about Floating and Sinkingby Joanna Cole, Jane B. Mason, Bruce DeganISBN 0590921584 (0-590-92158-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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The Magic School Bus Wet All over: A Book About the Water CycleISBN 0590508334 (0-590-50833-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
Find This BookBook summary:Ms. Frizzle's class is learning all about water. And when Wanda suggests they take a tip to Waterland, Ms. Frizzle gets a funny look in her eyes. But insead of taking her class to the water theme park, she takes them on a seriously wet and wild ridethrough the water cycle! Join the class as they evaporate, condense, rain, and make their way back to the ocean...only to evaporate all over again! [via]
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Mud, Sand, and Waterby Dorothy M. HillISBN 0912674520 (0-912674-52-0)
Softcover, Natl Assn for the Education
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Plain Talk about Drinking Water: Answers to 101 Important Questions about the Water You Drinkby James M. SymonsISBN 0898676061 (0-89867-606-1)
Hardcover, American Water Works Association
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Plain Talk About Drinking Water: Questions and Answers About the Water You Drinkby James SymonsISBN 0898677297 (0-89867-729-7)
Softcover, Amer Water Works Assn
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Regarding the Fountainby Kate Klise, M. Sarah KliseISBN 0380793474 (0-380-79347-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regarding the Fountain'Book summary:How could a simple request for a new water fountain go so very, very off-track? When Principal Wally Russ writes to fountain designer Florence Waters to ask her to replace Dry Creek Middle School's busted drinking fountain, he little suspects that he is sparking the imagination of an artiste. Kate Klise's charming mystery novel is told entirely in letters and faxes, as the glamorous Florence visits Dry Creek and becomes friends with Mr. Sam N.'s fifth-grade class. The class helps Florence design the most outrageous water fountain ever, and along the way uncovers the dirty (and rather wet) secret that dwells underneath Dry Creek Middle School. Writes Florence to her new fifth-grade friends, "Your drawings are hanging in my studio. Pure inspiration. Of course a drinking fountain should have tropical fish and chocolate shakes!" The book reads like an inspired combination of the epistolary novels Daddy-Long-Legs and Griffin & Sabine. Line drawings by M. Sarah Klise adorn every page, with "snapshots" of the fifth-grade class, pages from the local paper, and coffee-stained While You Were Out notices thickening the stew. The emphasis on visual elements should make the book a hit with kids who claim they don't like to read. Author Klise knows her audience: bad puns flow as freely as water and the plot is just convoluted enough to challenge kids without frustrating them. The Klise sisters have created a classic of comic children's literature. (Ages 8 and older) --Claire Dederer [via]
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflictby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805055762 (0-8050-5576-2)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict'Book summary:From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central Asia, Resource Wars looks at the growing impact of resource scarcity on the military policies of nations.[via]
International security expert Michael T. Klare argues that in the early decades of the new millennium, wars will be fought not over ideology but over access to dwindling supplies of precious natural commodities. The political divisions of the Cold War, Klare asserts, have given way to a global scramble for oil, natural gas, minerals, and water. And as armies throughout the world define resource security as a primary objective, widespread instability is bound to follow, especially in those areas where competition for essential materials overlaps with long-standing territorial and religious disputes. In this clarifying view, the recent explosive conflict between the United States and Islamic extremism stands revealed as the predictable consequence of consumer nations seeking to protect the vital resources they depend on.
A much-needed assessment of a changed world, Resource Wars is a compelling look at warfare in an era of rampant globalization and intense economic competition.More editions of Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict:
Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American Westby Donald WorsterISBN 0195078063 (0-19-507806-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West'Book summary:When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospectors, and entrepreneurs who were zealously following Horace Greeley's famous advice to "go west." Yet while the epic chapter in American history opened by these adventurous men and women is filled with stories of frontier hardship, we rarely think of one of their greatest problems--the lack of water resources. And the same difficulty that made life so troublesome for early settlers remains one of the most pressing concerns in the western states of the late-twentieth century.
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Rivers of Empire represents a radically new vision of the American West and its historical significance. Showing how ecological change is inextricably intertwined with social evolution, and reevaluating the old mythic and celebratory approach to the development of the West, Worster offers the most probing, critical analysis of the region to date. He shows how the vast region encompassing our western states, while founded essentially as colonies, have since become the true seat of the American "Empire." How this imperial West rose out of desert, how it altered the course of nature there, and what it has meant for Thoreau's (and our own) mythic search for freedom and the American Dream, are the central themes of this eloquent and thought-provoking story--a story that begins and ends with water. [via]More editions of Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American West:
- Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American West: ISBN 0394751612 (0-394-75161-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Rivers of Empire : Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West: ISBN 039451680X (0-394-51680-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West: ISBN 0195078063 (0-19-507806-3)
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- Rivers of Empires : Water Aridity and the Growth of the American West: ISBN 0394751612 (0-394-75161-2)
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Science With Waterby Helen Edom, Simone AbelISBN 0746012616 (0-7460-1261-6)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Science With Water'Book summary:-- Basic scientific principles are explained with the aid of fun experiments and activities
-- All experiments use everyday household equipment
-- Simple text and illustrations enable children to use the books by themselves [via]
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Sparknotes Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 1586635107 (1-58663-510-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A Story That Stands Like a Damby Russell MartinISBN 0805015515 (0-8050-1551-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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A Story That Stands like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the Westby Russell MartinISBN 058518299X (0-585-18299-X)
Softcover, University of Utah Press
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 1416509623 (1-4165-0962-3)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tehanu'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845359 (0-689-84535-9)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tombs of Atuan'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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The Waste Landby T. S. EliotISBN 0571096352 (0-571-09635-2)
Hardcover, (3 Queen Sq., WC1N 3AU), Faber and Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version, was edited through handwritten notes by Ezra Pound, by Eliots first wife, and by Eliot himself. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Preface by Ezra Pound.[via]More editions of The Waste Land:
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. Eliot, Mary KarrISBN 0679641017 (0-679-64101-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0486400611 (0-486-40061-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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Waterby Robin McKinley, Peter DickinsonISBN 0142402443 (0-14-240244-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Water'Book summary:What magical beings inhabit earth?s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer- people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar?s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed.[via] -
Waterby Susan Canizares, Pamela ChankoISBN 0590107275 (0-590-10727-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Water'Book summary:Photographs and simple text describe some of the many liquid and frozen solid forms of water, such as rain, tap water, frost, rivers, and icebergs. [via]
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Water: A Natural Historyby Alice OutwaterISBN 0465037801 (0-465-03780-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Water: A Natural History'Book summary:What happens when you flush your toilet? Environmental engineer and writer Alice Outwater knows, and she guides the reader through the technical ins and outs of such delicate matters as water treatment and sewage handling--subjects she writes about with considerable charm. Here you will learn how "raw sludge brew" is separated, how methane from sewage is converted to a source of power, and how aqueducts past and present really work. Outwater also describes in lay terms the complex ecology of rivers, making a strong case for the preservation of free-flowing streams in the place of dammed waterways. Her book is somewhat more narrowly focused than the title suggests, but it is highly interesting and instructive nonetheless. [via]
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Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Watersby Robert Jerome GlennonISBN 1559634006 (1-55963-400-6)
Softcover, Island Pr
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Water Gardeningby Ken DruseISBN 0671846450 (0-671-84645-0)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resourceby Marq De VilliersISBN 0618127445 (0-618-12744-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Water: The Ultimate Cure Discover Why Water Is the Most Important Ingredient in Your Diet and Find Out Which Water Is Right for Youby Steve MeyerowitzISBN 1878736205 (1-878736-20-5)
Softcover, Book Pub Co
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Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirstby Diane Raines WardISBN 1573222291 (1-57322-229-1)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profitby Vandana ShivaISBN 1896357512 (1-896357-51-2)
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Your Body's Many Cries for Waterby F. BatmanghelidjISBN 0962994235 (0-9629942-3-5)
Softcover, Global Health Solutions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Your Body's Many Cries for Water'Book summary:As a result of extensive research into the role of water in the body, the author, a medical doctor, believes that he has found chronic dehydration to be the cause of many conditions including asthma, allergies, arthritis, angina, migraine headaches, hypertension, raised cholesterol, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, depression, and diabetes in the elderly.
According to Dr. Batmanghelidj, the body possesses many different thirst signals. A dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of your body's water needs. He describes a variety of more reliable ones, and helps you learn to understand when your body is calling for water. In this way, he claims you can prevent, treat, and cure a variety of conditions of ill health, at no cost, with what he calls nature's miracle medicine: Water. The author explains how much water one needs to drink a day to stay healthy, and why tea, coffee, and sodas are not good substitutes for water. [via]
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Your Body's Many Cries for Water: You Are Not Sick, You Are Thirstyby F. BatmanghelidjISBN 0962994251 (0-9629942-5-1)
Hardcover, Global Health Solutions
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El Autobus Magico Viaja Por El Agua/The magic school bus at the waterworksby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590464272 (0-590-46427-2)
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Masculino Que Ninguno: Una Perspectiva Sociopersonal De Genero, El Poder Y La Violenciaby Felix A. Roman Tirado, Colectivo e Ideologias y Vivencias de los Generos (Puerto Rico)ISBN 0965017761 (0-9650177-6-1)
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Vida De Pi / Life of Piby Yann Martel, Bianca SouthwoodISBN 8423335127 (84-233-3512-7)
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