What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction
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- ISBN: 9780774817011 (bound)
- ISBN: 0774817011 (bound)
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xviii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Graeme Wynn -- Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water -- 2. Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid Terms -- Pt. 2. History of Modern Water -- 3. Intimations of Modern Water -- 4. From Premodern Waters to Modern Water -- 5. Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred -- 6. Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle -- 7. Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the State -- 8. Culmination: Global Water -- Pt. 3. Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water -- 9. Constitution of Modern Water -- 10. Modern water in Crisis -- 11. Sustaining Modern Water: The New "Global Water Regime" -- Pt. 4. Conclusion: What Becomes of Water -- 12. Hydrolectics. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | GB 665 L55 2010 (Text) | 26040002899447 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |