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Free Download Jamie Linton, "What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstraction"
English | 2010 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0774817011, 077481702X | PDF | 2,1 mb
We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction – to mere H20 – this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. An original take on a deceptively complex issue, What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem.

Free Download Nick Hunt, "Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor’s footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1857886437 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 2.5 mb
In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century. Aged eighteen, Nick Hunt read A Time of Gifts and dreamed of following in Fermor’s footsteps.

Free Download Jeff Goodell, "The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 031626024X, 0316260207 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 41.2 mb
What if Atlantis wasn’t a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth’s thermometer, we are moving closer to the brink of broad disaster.

Free Download Water: Basic Science
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819915406 | 604 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 97 MB
This book highlights the fundamentals for understanding the essential problems and latest progresses in basic water science. Water is the most abundant, fundamental and important matter in nature. Arguably it is also the material that human beings study the most but misunderstand the most. Compared with the environmental science and engineering research activities on water resources, water pollution and water usage closely related to social problems at the macro level, basic scientific research on water at the molecular level has just emerged, the impact of which is not fully recognized yet. This book is devoted to introducing some important advances in the field of basic water science in past decades, with a particular emphasis on recent results on water and the interactions between water and solid surfaces at the molecular level. Starting from introducing concepts and popular theoretical and experimental methods for basic water research, this book mainly focuses on the atomic composition, electronic structure, and physicochemical properties of water molecules, water clusters and water layers (including surface water layers and water surface layers), rules for water adsorption on metals, oxides, and other typical solid surfaces such as salt, as well as the microscopic processes and mechanisms of water diffusion, wetting, decomposition and phase transformations under a variety of conditions. It is a good reference book for students and researchers in water-related science.

Free Download Water and Wastewater Engineering Technology
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032390050 | 580 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
Water and Wastewater Engineering Technology presents the basic concepts and applications of water and wastewater engineering technology. It is primarily designed for students pursuing programs in civil, water resources, and environmental engineering, and presents the fundamentals of water and wastewater technology, hydraulics, chemistry, and biology. The book examines the urban water cycle in two main categories, water treatment and distribution, and wastewater collection and treatment. The material lays the foundation for typical one-semester courses in water engineering and also serves as a valuable resource to professionals operating and managing water and wastewater treatment plants. The chapters in this book are standalone, offering the flexibility to choose combinations of topics to suit the requirements of a given course or professional application.

Free Download Persistent Pollutants in Water and Advanced Treatment Technology
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819920612 | 747 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 55 MB
This contributed volume discusses the current status of the occurrences, fate and transport of persistent pollutants in water and wastewater. This contents compile the state-of-the-art of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, advanced oxidation process, membrane processes, sorption, etc. for the clean-up of persistent pollutants in water including heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, phenolic compounds as well as microplastics and their by-products. This volume will be useful as a guide for the researchers to build strategies to deal with persistent pollutant. It also discusses the principal aspects of degradation mechanism of the pollutants, toxic by-products and effectiveness of the emerging technologies. This volume will be a useful guide for those working in soil and water protection, and environmental civil engineering.

Free Download Microplastics in the Ecosphere
by Vithanage, Meththika;Prasad, Majeti Narasimha Vara;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119879507 | 531 pages | True PDF EPUB | 99.98 MB

Free Download Mathematics Manual for Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators; Basic Mathematics for Water and Wastewater Operators; Third Edition
by Frank R. Spellman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032406852 | 328 pages | True PDF | 5.84 MB

Free Download Mathematics Manual for Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators: Wastewater Treatment Operations; Math Concepts and Calculations; Third Edition
by Frank R. Spellman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032406895 | 341 pages | True PDF | 22.38 MB

Free Download Homotopy-Based Methods in Water Engineering
by Manotosh Kumbhakar
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032438215 | 471 pages | True PDF | 20.53 MB