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Elixir : a history of water and humankind

2011

Format:	Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording
Author:	Fagan, Brian M., author.
Title:	Elixir : a history of water and humankind / by Brian Fagan.
Publisher, Date:	[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Audio, ℗2011.
Description:	11 audio discs (13 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	With his customary elegance and peerless scholarship, Brian Fagan illustrates that the past teaches people that technologies for solving one or another water problem are not enough. From a practical standpoint, humans still live at the mercy of the natural world. To solve the water crises of the future people may need to adapt the water ethos of their ancestors.
Subjects:	Water. Water -- History. Water -- Social aspects -- History. Water and civilization -- History.
Genre:	Audiobooks.
Other Author:	Langton, James, narrator. Tantor Media, publisher.
Notes:	Unabridged. Compact disc. Title from container. Duration: 13:30:00. Reading by James Langton of the 2011 book.
Contents:	The elixir of life -- Farmers and furrows -- "Whoever has a channel has a wife" -- Hohokam: "Something that is all gone" -- The power of the waters -- Landscapes of Enlil -- The lands of Enki -- "I caused a canal to be cut" -- The waters of Zeus -- AquaeRomae -- Waters that purify -- China's sorrow -- The water lily lords -- The triumph of gravity -- The waters of Islam -- "Lifting power more than that of a hundred men."
ISBN:	9781452600390 1452600392 9781452630397 1452630399
Publisher Number:	TTM45260039A
Other Number:	710899600
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	303219
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	CD 553.7 Fagan

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