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  • By the River

    Essays from the Water's Edge

    by Various Contributors ...
    Memory flows like a river, and it is through its constant flow that we come into being. Twelve of our most exciting contemporary writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as well as moulding our creative consciousness. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Godden's The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes nightfishing ... Read more

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  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    by Marc Reisner, Lawrie Mott ...
    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Read more

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  • Salmon

    A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    "Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and ... Read more

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  • The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority

    by John Williams ...
    Series series River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble ... Read more

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  • Watershed Redemption

    by Diana Hartel ...
    Watershed Redemption, Diana Hartel’s sweeping, richly researched account conjures up a Bierstadt landscape. With elegant, crystal-clear prose, she weaves a dire yet hopeful tapestry of ecological ignorance, genocide, and tenacious activism. There is something for everyone—environmentalist, policy-maker, ethnologist, historian, biologist, epidemiologist, artist—in this powerful piece of advocacy. ... Read more

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  • Cultural Values and Transboundary River Protection under International Environmental Law

    by Sam Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    This book argues that there is an urgent need to reevaluate how international environmental law can enhance the ecological well-being of transboundary rivers.Through understanding the motivations behind river protection, the book identifies the cultural values associated with rivers and considers how these can be incorporated into international legal frameworks to enhance river protection. The ... Read more

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  • Rivers of North America

    Edited by Michael D. Delong, Timothy D. Jardine, Arthur C. Benke, Colbert E. Cushing ...
    Rivers of North America, Second Edition features new updates on rivers included in the first edition, as well as brand new information on additional rivers. This new edition expands the knowledge base, providing readers with a broader comparative approach to understand both the common and distinct attributes of river networks. The first edition addressed the three primary disciplines of river ... Read more

    PHP12,334.79

  • HIDRELÉTRICA E CORRUPÇÃO

    A luta para salvar o Rio Tibagi e uma das últimas florestas do Paraná

    by Adilson Brito ...
    Este livro tem o objetivo de perpetuar a história das conquistas sociais e ambientais protagonizadas pela organização ativista Liga Ambiental, por universidades e por cidadãos paranaenses. Os esforços para evitar a construção de uma sequência de grandes barragens no Rio Tibagi se estendeu entre 1984 e 2019. Esses momentos foram compilados e dispostos cronologicamente a partir de informações ... Read more

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  • The Mekong: A Socio-legal Approach to River Basin Development

    by Ben Boer, Philip Hirsch, Fleur Johns, Ben Saul, Natalia Scurrah ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    An international river basin is an ecological system, an economic thoroughfare, a geographical area, a font of life and livelihoods, a geopolitical network and, often, a cultural icon. It is also a socio-legal phenomenon. This book is the first detailed study of an international river basin from a socio-legal perspective. The Mekong River Basin, which sustains approximately 70 million people ... Read more

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  • Following the River Camel

    by John Neale ...
    The River Camel, for much of its length, is arguably in the fi rst division of the most beautiful and interesting waterways in the West Country. This fascinating book, with its infectious and easily readable text, carries the reader on a colourful journey of discovery, from the river's quiet beginnings near Davidstow, through varying riverscapes, under bridges old and new, and past interesting ... Read more

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  • Where the River Flows

    Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways

    by Sean W. Fleming ...
    The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and usRivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's ... Read more

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  • Rivers of History

    Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama

    by Harvey H. Jackson III ...
    An illuminating study of how rivers shaped the history, culture, and environment of Alabama and the American South.In Rivers of History, acclaimed historian Harvey H. Jackson III blends environmental history with compelling storytelling and traces the evolving relationship between people and rivers—from Indigenous communities who first depended on these waterways, to European settlers, to the ... Read more

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  • River Tamar Through the Year

    by Derek Tait ...
    Series series Through the Year
    Flowing between Devon and Cornwall, the beauty of the River Tamar is ever changing. Every turn brings something new; deer, otters, seals, stoats and, in the past, even the occasional dolphin. Rich with trees, flowers and insects, there is something wonderful to be found with every season. Spring brings new growth and colour with bluebells and daffodils. Wildlife flourishes and bees and butterflies ... Read more

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  • River Tamar Through Time

    by Derek Tait ...
    Series series Through Time
    Bordering Devon and Cornwall, the River Tamar stretches through some of the most beautiful and scenic parts of the south west. Over the years, much has changed in the region. Gone are the many barges that once took fruit, vegetables and other produce up and down the river. The river was once a hive of industry with many tin, copper, lead, silver and tungsten mines along its banks.Much has changed ... Read more

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  • The Nile

    History's Greatest River

    by Terje Tvedt ...
    “[A] vivid travelogue.” New Statesman“Has much to offer.” The Spectator"Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine"A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine“Essential reading." All About History"Valiant, valuable and entert... ... Read more

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  • Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal Through Time

    by Paul Hindle ...
    Series series Through Time
    The canal received its Act of Parliament in 1791, and was opened from Bolton and Bury to Salford in 1797. The canal never reached Manchester. It was connected to the River Irwell in 1808 and to the rest of the canal system in 1838. The canal is just over 15 miles long, and has three arms radiating out from Nob End in Little Lever; all seventeen locks are on the Salford arm. The canal principally ... Read more

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  • The Rivers That Remembered

    by Dandy Ahuruonye ...
    The Rivers That Remembered is a sweeping, poetic encyclopaedia of twenty‑two great rivers—an ambitious work that listens to the waterways of the world as if they were living witnesses to the human condition. It is a study of history, ecology, culture, and conscience, written with the moral clarity of a chronicler and the lyricism of a poet.Across continents and centuries, rivers have carried the ... Read more

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  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a classic nature adventure text by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849. The book is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire and back Thoreau had taken with his brother John in 1839. As John had died from tetanus in 1842, Thoreau wrote the book as a tribute to his memory. The book's first ... Read more

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  • Understanding Nature Vol. 1

    Understanding Nature, #1

    by Rick McKeon ...
    Series Book 1 - Understanding Nature
    If you love nature and being outdoors - hiking, smelling the fresh air, and feeling the warm sun on your skin - you will love this book! This little book is filled with activities to increase your enjoyment and understanding of the natural world. Not only will you understand nature at a deeper level, you will start to understand that you are a part of the natural world and it is part of you! ... Read more

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  • Stikine Odyssey

    From Adventure to Activism with The Great River

    by Peter Rowlands, Gary Fiegehen ...
    September 1979. When thirty-something Peter Rowlands loaded up his Landcruiser and took canoe Dimples to join his friend Hal Marsden on a paddling adventure in northern BC’s backcountry, he never expected one river—Stikine—would radically change the course of his life. Rowlands became so enchanted by this 640-kilometre stretch of wild beauty, he joined the ranks of citizens calling for protection ... Read more

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  • The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal

    An Illustrated History

    by Hugh Conway-Jones ...
    The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal - An Illustrated History draws on contemporary sources and throws new light on the construction, operation and maintenance of the canal. It highlights not only the people involved but also the vessels that used it and the facilities that were provided at Gloucester and at Sharpness. Information comes from written records and also from the memories of those who ... Read more

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  • Field Notes from a Waterborne Land

    Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok

    by Parimal Bhattacharya ...
    In the late 2000s, when the three-decade-long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well-trodden urban centres to different parts of the region - from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha ... Read more

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  • America by Rivers

    by Tim Palmer ...
    Photographer and writer Tim Palmer has spent more than 25 years researching and experiencing life on the waterways of the American continent. He has travelled by canoe or raft on more than 300 different rivers, down wide placid streams and rough raging rapids. His journeys have taken him to every corner of the country, where he has witnessed and described the unique interaction of geographical, ... Read more

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  • A Year In A Ditch

    by J. C. Jeremy Hobson ...
    Rivers, canals and many glorious waterways are championed and admired at every opportunity. Sadly, not so the humble ditch; yet they are the all-important capillaries supplying the veins of our far more visual watercourses.In no way a dry river-bed of hard facts, A Year in a Ditch is informative and a source of knowledge to anyone interested in exploring the delights and habitat created by ditches ... Read more

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