Elixir : a history of water and humankind
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608190034
- ISBN: 160819003X
- ISBN: 9781408815731
- ISBN: 1408815737
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Physical Description:
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xxvii, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Canals, furrows, and rice paddies -- The elixir of life -- Farmers and furrows -- "Whoever has a channel has a wife" -- Hohokam : "Something that is all gone" -- The power of the waters -- Waters from afar -- Landscapes of Enlil -- The lands of Enki -- "I caused a canal to be cut" -- The waters of Zeus -- Aquae Romae -- Cisterns and monsoons -- Waters that purify -- China's sorrow -- Ancient American hydrologists -- The water lily lords -- Triumphs of gravity -- Gravity and beyond -- The waters of Islam -- "Lifting power-- more certain than that of a hundred men" -- Mastery? |
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Subject: | Water Social aspects Water Water History Water Social aspects History Water and civilization History Water and civilization |
Genre: | History. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | GB 671 .F34 2011 | 278629 | Stacks | Available | - |