Rivers category: 174 books
Rivers at Risk
Concerned Citizen's Guide To Hydropower
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Rivers at Risk is an invaluable handbook that offers a practical understanding of how to influence governmdecisions about hydropower developmon America's rivers.
Downstream Toward Home
A Book of Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
American rivers are among the most diverse and challenging in the world, and for many the excitement and escape they offer develops into a lifelong pursuit. In Downstream Toward Home, Oliver A. Houck recounts his six decades exploring America's waterways,from unnamed creeks and Louisiana swamps to...
Rivers of History
Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Four streams make up the Alabama River system, the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama. Together they flow for more than 900 miles, through some of the most historic regions of the state. This book looks at the way these streams have shaped the lives of the people who lived along them, and how,...
The Persistence of Rivers
an essay on moving water
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Winner of the Jeanne Leiby Prize
Alison Townsend shapes the memories within this book like the meditative and meandering rivers that inspired them. The Persistence of Rivers evokes the naturalism of Thoreau and Dillard, yet Townsend’s prose remains masterfully singular in its subject, lyricism,...
Original Highways
Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
**Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Canada's great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our country through the stories of its original highways, and how they sustain our spirit, identity and economy--past, present and future.
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Rivers of Gold
Designing Markets To Allocate Water In California
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The movemto implemmarket-based approaches to allocating water is gaining ground across California and in other western states. Proponents argue that markets offer an efficiand cost-effective means of promoting conservation -- those who need water would pay for it on the open market, while others would...
When the Rivers Run Dry, Fully Revised and Updated Edition
Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A new edition of the veteran science writer's groundbreaking work on the world's water crisis, featuring all-new reporting from the most recent global flashpoints
Throughout history, rivers have been our foremost source of fresh water for both agriculture and individual consumption, but looming...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This book is intended for those with an academic, scientific and practical interest in river conservation and management. It provides an overview of how changes in legislation, policies, institutional responsibilities, science, technology, practical techniques and public perception have influenced...
by B. J. Freeman, Noel Burkhead, Joe Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Chattahoochee River is one of the premier waterways of Georgia and the Southeast. It is a mecca for summer recreation, a priceless natural resource that provides water and power for a great number of Georgia’s citizens, and an essential component to the region’s ecosystem. As public interest...
Troubled Waters
Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of...
River-Horse
A Voyage Across America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
New York Times bestseller: “A coast-to-coast journey by way of great rivers, conducted by a contemporary master of travel writing” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this memoir brimming with history, humor, and wisdom, the author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth “voyages across the country, from Atlantic...
The Flood of 2013
A Summer of Angry Rivers in Southern Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the Calgary Foundation's Flood Rebuilding Fund.
The Flood of 2013 chronicles an unforgettable summer of angry rivers, unprecedented flooding and undeniable human spirit. This book looks at how the disaster irrevocably changed...
When the Rivers Run Dry
Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.
Immersion
The Science and Mystery of Freshwater Mussels
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Abbie Gascho Landis first fell for freshwater mussels while submerged in an Alabama creek, her pregnant belly squeezed into a wetsuit. After an hour of fruitless scanning, a mussel materialized from the rocks—a little spectaclecase, herself pregnant, filtering the river water through a delicate...