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Water

Author: John Knechtel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Series: Alphabet city (Cambridge, Mass.), #14.
Edition/Format: Book : English
Summary:
Water is the chemical matrix required for life, the molecular chain that connects all organisms on this planet. Today the earth's water--transportation conduit, industrial feedstock, agricultural necessity--is coming under new pressures. Examining every aspect of H₂O, from the mythic to the infrastructural, a diverse group of artists and writers consider the current state of water.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Knechtel
ISBN: 9780262013291 0262013290
OCLC Number: 319498128
Description: 328 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, music ; 17 cm.
Contents: Water / Eamon Mac Mahon -- Water city / John Knechtel -- Waters of metaphysics / Timothy Stock -- Water scores / Carolyn Turner -- Watching water : views of Niagara Falls / Meredith Carruthers, Susannah Wesley -- Women, water / Jowita Bydlowska -- Public bath and the city / Christie Pearson -- Fossils / Stefan Petranek -- Bodies of water / Astrida Neimanis -- Ravine city / Chris Hardwicke -- In the tunnels of the Ontario Power Company / Michael Cook -- On water and development / Robert Kirkbride -- Washed water / Angela Grauerholz -- Manitoba's "flood of the century," during and after / Isaac Applebaum -- Psychodrama variation no. 1 (of 13) / Melissa Grey -- Water/Front : creative tension at the water's edge / Nina-Marie Lister -- Waste water / Laurin Jeffrey -- Acque alte : transforming the Venetian lagoon / Colin Ripley, Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov -- Contamination / Arnaud Maggs -- Water, inc. / Mei Chin -- Water farming in the American Southwest / Lola Sheppard, Mason White -- True price of water / Bhawani Venkataraman.
Series Title: Alphabet city (Cambridge, Mass.), #14.
Responsibility: edited by John Knechtel.

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Water is the chemical matrix required for life, the molecular chain that connects all organisms on this planet. Today the earth's water--transportation conduit, industrial feedstock, agricultural necessity--is coming under new pressures. Examining every aspect of H₂O, from the mythic to the infrastructural, a diverse group of artists and writers consider the current state of water.

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