Building on Water

Building on WaterA fundamental natural resource, water and its use not only reflect "modes of production" but also that complex interplay between resources and their exploitation (and domination) by various social agents, who in their turn are inevitably influenced by the abundance or rarity of water supplies. Focusing on scientific, social and economic issues from the 16th to the 19th century, the author, one of Italy's leading historians in this field, looks at the

an exotic form of nuclei that typically contain many more neutrons than stable isotopes of those elements

This book is suitable for researchers and graduate students alike in planetary science

Herbert Lehman fought the Republicans in the State Legislature to provide economic security for New Yorkers during the Great Depression

Spanning Merleau-Ponty's early and late thought

Due to the political and economic transformations affecting Europe

and the many multifaceted programs developed by the nonprofit organization Bateaux Below to help protect these finite cultural treasures

Oral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements in general

A no-holds barred look at how ideology-based partisan politics is altering the Framers' vision of government and alienating Americans

chapters in this volume aim to prepare educators on both sides of the US-Mexico border to better understand the circumstances

and concludes that the connection between self-transformation and social transformation that Foucault theorizes as the connection between subjectivity and institutional and social norms is crucial for contemporary feminist theory and politics

Sir Walter Scott delivers an intricate tale of greed and politics in The Fortunes of Nigel

was a leader of the French laissez-faire tradition in the first half of the nineteenth century