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Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth´s Waterways
Sean W. Fleming
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Description for Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth´s Waterways
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 halftones. 14 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: RBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 26.
The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us. Sean Fleming draws on examples ranging ... Read more
The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us. Sean Fleming draws on examples ranging ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
26g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691168784
SKU
V9780691168784
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Sean W. Fleming
Sean W. Fleming has two decades of experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors in the United States, Canada, England, and Mexico, ranging from oil exploration to operational river forecasting to glacier science. He holds faculty positions in the geophysical sciences at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University.
Reviews for Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth´s Waterways
[A] deft primer, brim with surprises when viewed through a physics lens.
Barbara Kiser, Nature [Fleming] engenders a new appreciation for the waterways around us.
Library Journal Fleming's decades of experience shine through in this book. Abstract physics concepts feel more relevant when applied to concrete phenomena that readers can visualize.
Laurel Hamers, Science News
Barbara Kiser, Nature [Fleming] engenders a new appreciation for the waterways around us.
Library Journal Fleming's decades of experience shine through in this book. Abstract physics concepts feel more relevant when applied to concrete phenomena that readers can visualize.
Laurel Hamers, Science News