Description: What Is Water? : The History of a Modern Abstraction, Paperback by Linton, Jamie; Wynn, Graeme (FRW), ISBN 077481702X, ISBN-13 9780774817028, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction--to mere H[subscript 2]O--this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Title: What Is Water? : The History of a Modern Abstraction
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Water? : the History of a Modern Abstraction
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Earth Sciences / Hydrology, Ecology, Natural Resources
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jamie Linton
Subject Area: Nature, Science
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Nature History Society Ser.
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback