Author: Ian Bradley Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum ISBN: 978-1441111739 Water has long been associated with the magical, the mysterious and the divine. From sacred springs to holy wells, and from hydropathic cures and temperance reform to the modern spa, Ian Bradley explores how water’s creative, health-giving and restorative powers have been conceived, worshipped and marketed in an essentially […]
Author: Benjamin M Stewart Publisher: Augsburg Fortress ISBN: 978-0806653938 This book begins with the classic, ecumenically held patterns of Christian worship and explores them for their deep connections to ecological wisdom, for their sacramental approaches to creation, and for a renewed relationship to the earth now itself in need of God’s healing. The Worship Matters Studies Series […]
Author: Diana Butler-Bass Publisher: HarperOne ISBN: 978-0062328540 The headlines are clear: religion is on the decline in America as many people leave behind traditional religious practices. Diana Butler Bass, leading commentator on religion, politics, and culture, follows up her acclaimed book Christianity After Religion by arguing that what appears to be a decline actually signals a […]
Author: Martin Hendriks Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 978-0199296842 As hydrology is now approached from environmental and social perspectives–in addition to the more traditional physical geography and civil engineering perspectives–there has never been a more opportune time to develop a sound understanding of the field. Introduction to Physical Hydrology provides students with a solid foundation in the core principles […]
Author: Alok Jha Publisher: Headline ISBN: 9781472209535 Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn’t live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules […]
Author: Maude Barlow Publisher: Anansi ISBN: 9781770894068 In Blue Future, international bestselling author Maude Barlow offers solutions to the global water crisis based on four simple principles. Principle One: Water Is a Human Right chronicles the long fight to have the human right to water recognized and the powerful players still impeding this progress. Principle Two: Water Is […]
Author: Callum Roberts Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780143123484 The sea feeds and sustains us, but its future is under catastrophic threat. In this powerful and ambitious book Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—tells the story of the history of the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know […]
Author: Alex Prud’homme Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781416535461 Will there be enough drinkable water to satisfy future demand? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and terrorist attacks? Can we create new sources for […]
Author: Robert Jerome Glennon Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 9781597268165 Robert Glennon captures the irony—and tragedy—of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From manufactured snow for tourists in Atlanta to trillions of gallons of water flushed down the toilet each year,Unquenchable reveals the heady extravagances and everyday inefficiencies that are sucking the […]
Author: Robert Jerome Glennon Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1559634006 As Robert Glennon explores the folly of our actions and the laws governing them, he suggests common-sense legal and policy reforms that could help avert potentially catastrophic future effects. Water Follies, the first book to focus on the impact of groundwater pumping on the environment, brings this widespread but […]
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