Water: Its Global Nature

By: Allaby, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Facts on File, c1992Description: 208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cmISBN: 9780816025268; 0816025266Subject(s): WaterDDC classification: 553.7
Contents:
What is water? -- Water and life -- Water in motion -- Water and humans.
Summary: 520 An informative and entertaining, non-technical examination of the nature, properties, and importance of water. The text is divided into four principal parts--what is water?; water and life; water in motion; and water and humans, including the problem of pollution--and is thoroughly illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned artwork. Planet Earth is unique in the known solar system because of the presence of liquid water--a substance which covers almost three-quarters of the total surface area of the globe. In straightforward, non-technical language, this book examines this extraordinary substance--which we all take for granted.
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Includes index.

What is water? --
Water and life --
Water in motion --
Water and humans.


520 An informative and entertaining, non-technical examination of the nature, properties, and importance of water. The text is divided into four principal parts--what is water?; water and life; water in motion; and water and humans, including the problem of pollution--and is thoroughly illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned artwork. Planet Earth is unique in the known solar system because of the presence of liquid water--a substance which covers almost three-quarters of the total surface area of the globe. In straightforward, non-technical language, this book examines this extraordinary substance--which we all take for granted.

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