Water The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

Name: Water The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
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ISBN: 9780060548315

ISBN-10: 0060548312

ISBN-13: 9780060548315

Edition: 2011

Authors: Steven Solomon

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Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

STEVEN SOLOMON is the school social worker for the Toronto District School Board's Human Sexuality Program. He provides counselling for students who are bullied because of their sexuality and delivers anti-homophobia workshops for K-12 students. In 2012 he was awarded a TDSB Excellence Award, in part for his work helping students to establish Gay-Straight Alliances in schools.



List of Maps


Prologue



Water in Ancient History



The Indispensable Resource



Water and the Start of Civilization



Rivers, Irrigation, and the Earliest Empires



Seafaring, Trade, and the Making of the Mediterranean World



The Grand Canal and the Flourishing of Chinese Civilization



Islam, Deserts, and the Destiny of History's Most Water-Fragile Civilization



Water and the Ascendancy of the West



Waterwheel, Plow, Cargo Ship, and the Awakening of Europe



The Voyages of Discovery and the Launch of the Oceanic Era



Steam Power, Industry, and the Age of the British Empire



Water and the Making of the Modern Industrial Society



The Sanitary Revolution



Water Frontiers and the Emergence of the United States



The Canal to America's Century



Giant Dams, Water Abundance, and the Rise of Global Society



The Age of Scarcity



Water: The New Oil



Thicker Than Blood: The Water-Famished Middle East



From Have to Have-Not: Mounting Water Distress in Asia's Rising Giants



Opportunity from Scarcity: The New Politics of Water in the Industrial Democracies


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Select Bibliography


Photograph Credits


Index