The Ripple Effect

The Ripple Effect
By:"Alex Prud'homme"
Published on 2011-06-07 by Simon and Schuster

E-book Library:"Political Science"

AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century. The questions he sought to answer were urgent: Will there be enough water to satisfy demand? What are the threats to its quality? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and terrorist attacks? Can we create new sources for our water supply through scientific innovation? Is water a right like air or a commodity like oil—and who should control the tap? Will the wars of the twenty-first century be fought over water? Like Daniel Yergin’s classic The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect is a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud’homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant—and sometimes shadowy—characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Michael Pollan has changed the way we think about the food we eat; Alex Prud’homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. Informative and provocative, The Ripple Effect is a major achievement.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword freshwater.

Thank you
E-Book University

Fresh Water

Fresh Water
By:"Jennifer Bosveld"
Published on 2002-09-01 by Pudding House Publications

E-book Library:"American poetry"

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword freshwater.

Thank you
E-Book University

Practical Astrology

Practical Astrology
By:"Comte C. De Saint-Germain"
Published on 1996-01-01 by Health Research Books

E-book Library:"Body, Mind & Spirit"

1901 a simple method of casting horoscopes. the language of the stars easily comprehended unfolding the wonderful wisdom of the Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek & Arabian astrologers, without any of the complicated, discouraging operations required by other me.

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword casting.

Thank you
E-Book University

Bottom Fishing in Cape Waters

Bottom Fishing in Cape Waters
By:"A. C. M. Orrey"
Published on 1917 by

E-book Library:"Sports & Recreation"

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword bottom fishing.

Thank you
E-Book University

Looking Gorgeous

Looking Gorgeous
By:"Elisabeth Wilson"
Published on 2011-12-23 by Infinite Ideas

E-book Library:"Health & Fitness"

The internet, email and mobile technology have givenbirth to \

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword popping.

Thank you
E-Book University

The Professionals' Favorite Flies: Streamers, leeches, crustaceans, popping bugs, freshwater aquatics & saltwater patterns

The Professionals' Favorite Flies: Streamers, leeches, crustaceans, popping bugs, freshwater aquatics & saltwater patterns
By:"Lefty Kreh"
Published on 1996 by

E-book Library:"Fly tying"

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword popping.

Thank you
E-Book University

Aluminum-silicon Casting Alloys

Aluminum-silicon Casting Alloys
By:"Malgorzata Warmuzek"
Published on 2004-01-01 by ASM International

E-book Library:"Technology & Engineering"

This atlas provides an in-depth understanding of the metallurgy and fracture behavior of aluminum-silicon casting alloys, which are used in a wide variety of automotive, aerospace, and consumer product applications. The atlas includes over 300 high-definition microfractographs of fracture profiles and fracture surfaces, accompanied with detailed descriptions and analysis of the fracture features and their significance in the selection, processing, properties, and performance of the alloy. The microfractographs are described and classified according to criteria described in detail in the introductory chapters in the book. The factors determining the fracture mechanism in these alloys, on the basis of their physical and mechanical properties and fracture mechanics, are described and analyzed. The set of micrographs in this atlas include several unique features: classification according to the alloy and its processing history, detailed analysis of selected microregions of the fracture surface, reference of the fracture features to the phase constituents of the alloy, and high resolution and high microscopic magnification of the SEM images. This book will be of great value to anyone involved in the selection, processing, application, testing, or evaluation of aluminum-silicon castings. The target audience includes metallurgists, foundry personnel, failure analysts, purchasers of castings, researchers in physical and mechanical metallurgy, students, and educators.

This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword casting.

Thank you
E-Book University