{"product_id":"water-9780525566007","title":"Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpanning millennia and continents, a revealing history that “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar more than a biography of its nominal subject ... The book stands as a compelling history of civilization itself. —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boc­caletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Univer­sity of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civ­ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a pop","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48734980112727,"sku":"9780525566007","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/water-9780525566007","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}