Anthony R Palumbi

At the Base of the Giant's Throat

The Past and Future of America's Great Dams

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthony R. Palumbi dives into the history of dam-building in the United States as natural waterscapes have been replaced with engineered environments and the bone-dry West became America’s produce aisle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 148mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781640124936
• ISBN-10: 1640124934
• Artikelnr.: 65954304

Autorenporträt

Anthony R. Palumbi is the coauthor of The Extreme Life of the Sea and the author of Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft. His work on natural science and popular culture has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Natural History, Mission Blue, and Think Progress, among other outlets.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Rivers Wild
2. Brick by Brick
3. The Drowned Empire
4. A Towering Height
5. Approaching the Spillway
6. Great, Still Mass
7. The Breakdown
8. The War Economy
9. Inundation
10. Desiccation
11. No Promises
Notes
Bibliography
Index