Tag: Rivers

Free Download Wild Waters: The Magic of Ireland’s Rivers and Lakes by Richard Nairn
English | June 22, 2023 | ISBN: 0717197573 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 12.9 MB
Richard Nairn is an ecologist who has been visiting waterways around Ireland for over half a century, fascinated by how they enrich our lives. Here, he sets out to explore Ireland’s rivers, lakes, wet woodlands, ponds and canals, starting with the Avonmore River in his own county of Wicklow.

Free Download There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel by Elif Shafak
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 0593801717 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 8.8 MB
From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water.

Free Download Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture) by Anthony Kaldellis
English | June 7th, 2017 | ISBN: 0190253223 | 440 pages | True EPUB | 8.06 MB
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks in the east and the Normans in the west brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, not only was its dominance of southern Italy, the Balkans, Caucasus, and northern Mesopotamia over but Byzantium’s very existence was threatened.

Free Download Shyam Kanhaiya, "Rivers of India: Past, Present and Future"
English | ISBN: 3031491629 | 2024 | 282 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This volume presents geological, geographical, environmental, and agriculture related studies on rivers, focusing on basins of the three geomorphic divisions of India, i.e. peninsular India, Indo-Gangetic plain and extra-peninsular India. The book compiles data on both the small and large river systems of India, the large rivers include Jhelum, Ghaghara, Narmada, Son, Krishna and Godavari; and the small scale, rain-fed and groundwater-fed rivers such as Gomti have been studied. The chapters comprehensively provide assessments of geomorphological aspects, river sediment supply, clean water availability for human population, ground water recharge, flood management and irrigation. The information presented in this book will appeal to students, teachers, researchers and planners engaged in river development, management and conservation.

Free Download Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0593655338 | True EPUB | 464 pages | 3.9 MB
An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century

Free Download When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys Into the Heart of the World’s Water Crisis By Fred Pearce
2006 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1552637417 | EPUB | 3 MB
Nothing seems more abundant than water. In fact, the world is confronting a global water shortage that could make the oil crisis trivial by comparison. To put the problem in perspective, it takes a staggering 11,000 litres of water to feed the cow it takes to make one McDonald`s quarter pounder. As Fred Pearce warns, "The planet is running out of water." Many of the world`s most powerful rivers have been so devastated by consumption and irrigation drain-off that they no longer reach the sea. Two-thirds of all the world`s supply of water is used to irrigate crops. It takes enough water to fill one hundred bathtubs to irrigate the cotton fields required to make one t-shirt. When the Rivers Run Dry is a journey into the world water crisis. Internationally acclaimed environmental writer and water authority Pearce traverses the globe in this eye-opening portrait of what is fast becoming the planet`s most serious potential catastrophe. From Canada and Texas to India and Palestine, Pearce examines in fascinating and compelling detail how galloping, un-regulated consumption, economic greed and political indifference are putting the world`s water systems at grave risk. As important, the implications of a shortage will have–in fact, already have had–profound and serious consequences on the fragile international political situation. Though the warning signs are dire, Pearce passionately contends that they point to the solutions that will avert the crisis and put the world on the path of sustained and renewable consumption. It`s a challenge we cannot afford to ignore.

Free Download Urban and Metropolitan Rivers: Geomorphology, Planning and Perception by Joaquim Farguell Pérez, Albert Santasusagna Riu
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 3031626400 | 163.3 MB
This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites. During the urban expansion of modern cities throughout the twentieth century, rivers have become a source of problems during high flood events. However, due to growing social pressure, especially in dense cities, rivers are viewed as new leisure areas given that they also provide highly valuable ecosystem services. People seek open and environmentally friendly spaces amidst the dense street networks of cities. Yet, we should not forget that rivers are not merely domesticated elements of nature for leisure purposes only. Flooding risks and damages are possible within urban environments. How should we address the social and ecological interactions? How should we plan for these complexities to meet the growing social requirements and needs while respecting river dynamics? Hydrologists, geomorphologists, engineers, geographers and urban planners could leverage the knowledge and examples provided to enhance the interaction between nature and society in the growing cities of the twenty-first century.

Free Download Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity (Audiobook)
English | September 07, 2021 | ASIN: B09BBW8F1S | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 28m | 472 MB
Author and Narrator: Jemma Wadham
This audiobook narrated by Jemma Wadham gives a passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers – and what their fate means for our shared future.

Free Download Mark K. Briggs, Waite R. Osterkamp, "Renewing Our Rivers: Stream Corridor Restoration in Dryland Regions"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0816541485 | PDF | pages: 489 | 13.3 mb
Our rivers are in crisis and the need for river restoration has never been more urgent. Water security and biodiversity indices for all of the world’s major rivers have declined due to pollution, diversions, impoundments, fragmented flows, introduced and invasive species, and many other abuses.

Free Download Jim Best, "The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas"
English | ISBN: 0691244839 | 2024 | 400 pages | PDF | 624 MB
A stunningly illustrated atlas of the world’s rivers, estuaries, and deltas, and their ecosystems