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Elixir: a history of water and humankind
2011, Bloomsbury Press
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
160819003X 9781608190034
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Table of 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
Aquae Romae
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".
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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