Water (Record no. 226546)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781524748234
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 909
Item number BOCW
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Giulio Boccaletti
9 (RLIN) 70685
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Water
Remainder of title Biography
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pantheon Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiv,378p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 24x16cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Source of price type code General
Price type code ABDI/0651/23
Price amount ₹2583.00
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing ₹1937.00
Price note 25%
Price effective from 16-01-2023
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A revelatory history--spanning continents and millennia--of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization, by the chief strategy officer and global ambassador of water at The Nature Conservancy.<br/>In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion in population and the specialization of labor. We see how irrigation structure led to social structure--inventions like the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity; how, in Ancient Greece, communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experience dealing with water security was the seed for tax systems. And he makes clear how the modern world as we know it began with a legal structure for the development of water infrastructure. In its scope and clarity, Water: A Biography provides a fascinating framework through which we can more fully understand society's relationship to, and fundamental reliance on, the most elemental substance on our planet.<br/>
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Source of heading or term World history
Personal name Biography
9 (RLIN) 70686
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Book
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     MA English St Aloysius PG Library St Aloysius PG Library 01/25/2023 Academic Book Distributors 1937.00   909 BOCW PG024201 02/02/2023 2583.00 02/02/2023 Book