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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Priming the Pump | |
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| The States of Water | |
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| Some Remarkable Properties | |
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| Water's Many Cycles | |
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| Water in the Universe from the Big Bang to the Appearance of Man | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| From Hydrogen to Oxygen, and All the Rest | |
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| Water in the Interstellar Medium | |
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| The Churning of the Earth | |
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| Saving the Water at the Birth of the Planets | |
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| Primordial Waters--from Inside the Earth or from Outside? | |
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| Outgassing and Deluge | |
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| A Living Solid Earth: Oceans, Sea-floor spreading, Continental Drift, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes | |
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| Origin and Evolution of Life | |
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| An Extraterrestrial Origin? | |
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| Matter Living and Inert | |
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| Where and When Did Life Appear? | |
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| Life Without the Sun at the Bottom of the Sea | |
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| The Invention of Photosynthesis and the Conquest of Dry Land | |
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| Catastrophes | |
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| Climbing Up an Evolutionary Ladder? | |
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| Mass Extinctions | |
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| The Demise of the Dinosaurs | |
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| Deadly Impact | |
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| Man the Exterminator | |
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| Ice, Moon, and Planets | |
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| The Moon, Time, and Tide | |
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| The Precession of the Equinoxes | |
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| The Moon and Milankovitch | |
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| Ice on the Move | |
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| Ice in the Tropics | |
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| Water in Today's World | |
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| Water and Energy Cycles | |
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| Ice Budgets | |
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| Water Budgets: Clouds, Rain, and Snow | |
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| Water Budgets: Evaporation, Condensation, and Latent Heat | |
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| Energy Budgets and the Greenhouse Effect | |
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| Latitudes and Seasons | |
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| Land and Sea | |
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| Winds, Waves, and Currents | |
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| The Tropical Furnace and the Hadley Circulation | |
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| East Winds, West Winds, and the Gyrations of the Oceans | |
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| Land and Sea: Monsoons | |
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| East-West: El Nino, La Nina, and the Pacific Basin | |
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| North-South: The Atlantic | |
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| Water's Deep Memories | |
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| The Salt of the Sea | |
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| The Great Conveyor Belt | |
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| Foreseeable Accidents, or Surprises? | |
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| Clouds, Rain, and Angry Skies | |
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| Making Rain | |
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| Stability or Instability? | |
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| From Fair-weather Cumulus to Cumulonimbus: Convection and Precipitation | |
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| Cyclones and Convective Cloud Systems | |
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| Tornadoes | |
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| Tropical Cyclones: Hurricanes and Typhoons | |
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| Gently Falling Snow and Rain | |
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| Acid Rain | |
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| Earth's Water, Between Sky and Sea | |
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| Watersheds and Water Flows | |
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| Vegetation, Evapotranspiration, and the Soil | |
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| Infiltration and Underground Water | |
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| Runoff: From Rills to Rivers | |
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| Along the Great Rivers | |
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| Water on the Continental Scale | |
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| Water in Human History, Past and Future | |
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| Water and Man's Rise to Civilization | |
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| Out of the Ice Age | |
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| The Nile | |
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| Water's Revenge | |
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| Drinking Water for the Cities | |
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| Clean But Toxic Water | |
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| Water Down the Drain | |
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| Water for Food | |
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| Land for Food? | |
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| Mosquitoes and Disease | |
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| Water for Industry | |
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| Water Business | |
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| Nuclear Power and Water | |
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| Problems for the 21st Century | |
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| A New Millennium? | |
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| The Water Resource | |
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| Satisfaction of Water Needs | |
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| Water Management: Cooperation or Conflict? | |
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| Water Between Israel and the Arabs | |
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| Butterflies and Humans in a Warming Greenhouse | |
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| The Butterfly Effect | |
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| The Greenhouse Effect | |
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| Global Warming? | |
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| The Real Risks | |
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| A New Deal in Water | |
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| Back to the Ice Age | |
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| The End of the Pleistocene? | |
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| From the Twentieth to the 21st Century | |
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| Finite and Infinite Resources | |
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| Avoidable Catastrophe | |
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| Conclusion--the End of the Story? | |
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| Back to the Beginning? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |