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02326nam a22002297a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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PMNP |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250407101633.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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250407b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316412001 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
PMNP |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
Kutubkhanah Diraja |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
551 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
3446 |
| Personal name |
Smith, Laurence C. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Rivers of power : |
| Remainder of title |
how a natural force raised kingdoms, destroyed civilizations, and shapes our world |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Laurence C Smith. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Little, Brown Spark, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
356 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : |
| Other physical details |
lustrations (some color), maps, photographs ; |
| Dimensions |
25cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
he Palermo stone -- On the border -- The century of humiliation and other war stories -- Ruin and renewal -- Seizing the current -- Pork soup -- Going with the flow -- A thirst for data -- Rivers rediscovered. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Rivers, more than any road, technology, or political leader, have shaped the course of human civilization. They have opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, and fed billions. They promote life, forge peace, grant power, and can capriciously destroy everything in their path. Even today, rivers remain a powerful global force -- one that is more critical than ever to our future. In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith explores the timeless yet underappreciated relationship between rivers and civilization as we know it. Rivers are of course important in many practical ways (water supply, transportation, sanitation, etc). But the full breadth of their influence on the way we live is less obvious. Rivers define and transcend international borders, forcing cooperation between nations. Huge volumes of river water are used to produce energy, raw commodities, and food. Wars, politics, and demography are transformed by their devastating floods. The territorial claims of nations, their cultural and economic ties to each other, and the migrations and histories of their peoples trace back to rivers, river valleys, and the topographic divides they carve upon the world. And as climate change, technology, and cities transform our relationship with nature, new opportunities are arising to protect the waters that sustain us |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
2522 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Rivers |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |
