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The Water Book
by Jha, Alok
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1472209559
- ISBN 13
- 9781472209559
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Headline, 2015) 9781472209559. 232 x 151 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (viii) + 376, incl. index. Fine condition. "It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination, water is a very strange substance; look closer still and it reveals itself as a key to a scientific story on the biggest of canvases. In The Water Book Alok Jha takes us on a dual journey. First, a physical one as we join him on an expedition to Antarctica, where the power and importance of water is made manifest in the great ice fields, icebergs and world-shaping weather systems of the Southern Ocean. And secondly, on a parallel scientific voyage that will take us from the origins of water in the Big Bang, through the beginnings of life on Earth, the shaping of our civilisations and out into space again as water becomes the key marker in our search for life beyond the solar system and beyond. After reading The Water Book you will never look at a glass of water in quite the same way again." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10872
- Title
- The Water Book
- Author
- Jha, Alok
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1472209559
- ISBN 13
- 9781472209559
- Publisher
- (London: Headline, 2015) 9781472209559
- This edition first published
- 2015
- Keywords
- Scientific enquiry. Oceans. Drinking Water. Natural resources Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Fine
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