City Water, City Life

City Water, City Life
Author: Carl Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 022602265X

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.

Water - Ideas For Life

Water - Ideas For Life
Author: Suresh Madampil
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2024-07-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Sea Is Turquoise, Ocean is Blue, Snow is white yet water is colourless, yet possesses the remarkable ability to reflect the surrounding world, absorbing and refracting all the time. Water – Ideas for Life is an exploration of water's journey, from its physical properties to its symbolic and metaphorical meaning across various religions, cultures, and scientific perspectives. This book aims to delve into the multifaceted nature of water, beauty, anomalies, and mysteries. Come embark on a journey of discovery, unearthing the hidden stories and profound wisdom that water has to offer.

A Long Walk to Water

A Long Walk to Water
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547251270

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way.

Texas Aquatic Science

Texas Aquatic Science
Author: Rudolph A. Rosen
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2014-12-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1623491932

This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts and clarify major ideas. Aquatic science is covered comprehensively, with relevant principles of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, ecology, and biology included throughout the text. Emphasizing water sustainability and conservation, the book tells us what we can do personally to conserve for the future and presents job and volunteer opportunities in the hope that some students will pursue careers in aquatic science. Texas Aquatic Science, originally developed as part of a multi-faceted education project for middle and high school students, can also be used at the college level for non-science majors, in the home-school environment, and by anyone who educates kids about nature and water. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

We Are Water Protectors

We Are Water Protectors
Author: Carole Lindstrom
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250780993

From author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Michaela Goade comes a New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal winning picture book that honors Indigenous-led movements across the world. Powerfully written and gorgeously illustrated, We Are Water Protectors, issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—inviting young readers everywhere to join the fight. Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all . . . When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth And poison her people’s water, one young water protector Takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource. The fight continues with Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, the must-read companion book to We Are Water Protectors. Written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Bridget George, it tells the story of real-life water protectors, Autumn Peltier and her great-aunt Josephine Mandamin, two Indigenous Rights Activists who have inspired a tidal wave of change.

This Is Water

This Is Water
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2009-04-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0316071005

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

This Is Water

This Is Water
Author: Kenyon College
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN: 9780316151467

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously' How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion' The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

Living Water

Living Water
Author: Viktor Schauberger
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 155
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 5882222788

Water and Life

Water and Life
Author: Ruth M. Lynden-Bell
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2010-05-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1439803579

Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place withi

The Big Thirst

The Big Thirst
Author: Charles Fishman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439102082

Fishmen examines the passing of the golden age of water and reveals the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor.