Excellent. Boccaletti takes the reader on a polyglot tour de force that shows how the flow of human history, economics and geopolitics is utterly connected to the constant blue thread of our need for water. Water A Biography poses challenging questions about how best to secure our water future and, as a result, ensure our very existence.” —Dominic Waughray, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

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While an elegance of style is a hallmark of Azumah Nelson’s storytelling, there is bold risk-taking in his choices too: he writes in the second person, using its immediacy and potency to create an emotional intensity that replicates the emotional intensity with which the protagonist experiences his bond with the dancer and his wider world. The fissures that emerge in their relationship partly arise because he struggles to communicate the depth of his suffering and feelings of loss prompted by the racialised inequities of his south-east London neighbourhood. The Water Lords; Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Industry and Environmental Crisis in Savannah, Georgia Wilson-Lee’s point is that we all need to be a bit more De Góis and a bit less De Camões. Employing prose as luscious as it is meticulous, Wilson-Lee shows us the world through De Góis’s eyes, a wonderful tapestry that includes Ethiopians and Sami, Hieronymus Bosch (he owned three of the master’s fever-dream paintings) and elephants that can write in dust with their trunks. In 1531 De Góis was hugely affected by an audience he had with Martin Luther in Wittenberg when the great man’s wife served him hazelnuts and apples. There was a point to the meal’s simplicity that went beyond grandiose self-denial. Luther believed that the obsession with international capitalism, which brought spices and other exotic delicacies pouring into Europe, was pointless and wasteful. Shopping locally and growing your own (Mrs Luther had a very nice kitchen garden) was the righteous way to go. Alice (27 July 2016). "Man Booker Prize announces 2016 longlist". Man Booker . Retrieved 27 July 2016.It is Azumah Nelson’s expressive style that most startlingly reanimates this formula. His presentation of the narrative in sensual but precisely paced sentences with elegant refrains and motifs imbues Open Water with a rhythm of its own. Azumah Nelson’s descriptions of his lovers’ physicality provide the clearest examples of his supple prose. At the beginning of their relationship, the photographer and dancer are tentative in their interactions with one another – and yet these moments are freighted with possibility.

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The Tome of Water is similar to the Tome of frost in RuneScape 3, in that both are offhand books that supply Water Runes for Magic spells. Royal Society of Literature Encore Award 2017" (PDF). Royal Society of Literature . Retrieved 3 June 2017. Provides essential reading for those seeking to explore how humanity’s relationship with nature has influenced the development of legal and political systems and offers invaluable insights into current debates surrounding climate change and sustainability. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.” —Lee C. Bollinger, President and Seth Low Professor of the University, Columbia University This is one of the most ambitious books that I’ve read in a long time. It is both deep and broad.”— NPR, All ThingsConsidered a b "The North Water by Ian McGuire review – a voyage into the heart of darkness 19 February 2016". The Guardian. 19 February 2016 . Retrieved 8 December 2016.

Water is everywhere, from the vast glaciers of Mars to the cells in our own bodies. And yet it remains a mystery The wonders that De Camões wrote about were really not that different – he was particularly keen on mermaids while De Góis favoured mermen – but the point was that he took enormous pains to make sure his version kept European man at the centre of the world. And it worked. The Lusiads, first printed in a relatively modest form, was soon being published in elaborate editions crammed with notes that explained the poet’s meaning and placed his works among the great authors of the European tradition. Before long the book was being translated into Latin, Spanish, English and French. Three hundred years later, the Romantics adopted De Camões as their beau idéal of what a poet ought to be, with Wordsworth, Melville and Poe all taking him as their inspiration. Meanwhile Friedrich Schlegel and Alexander von Humboldt wrote admiring commentaries on The Lusiads – “the most perfect of epics” – sealing its author’s place in the literary canon. Weaken spells from the standard spellbook are now 50% more effective when the tome of water is equipped. Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to—and fundamental reliance on—the most elemental substance on earth. The North Water is a 2016 novel by English author and academic Ian McGuire. [1] McGuire's focus of study and field of interest is American realist literature [2] which is defined as, "...the faithful representation of reality". [3] The Guardian 's reviewer writes, "The strength of The North Water lies in its well-researched detail and persuasive descriptions of the cold, violence, cruelty and the raw, bloody business of whale-killing." [4] The headline of the Independent Book Review "Ian McGuire, The North Water: 'Subtle as a harpoon in the head, but totally gripping', book review" [5] reinforces the realist aspect of the writing. The North Water was published by Henry Holt and Company (USA) and Simon & Schuster (UK)/ Scribner (UK).

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A fascinating analysis that will bridge the interests of environmentalists and historians, political scientists, or economists.” — Library Journal Water molecules helped create the Earth, life on it and us. We have built our worlds, and we are ourselves built of this remarkable substance. Jha’s book is often remarkable, too. It is overlong; in places it needed more zealous editing. But it holds wonders enough that you can swim through the flaws, and into its deeps.

Man Booker prize 2016: the longlist – in pictures". The Guardian. 27 July 2016 . Retrieved 28 July 2016. A dazzling tale spanning millennia, geography, science, and human civilizations, that is more than the story of water. It is a story of ideas and institutions; of tensions between individual enterprise and collective action; of human needs and planetary dynamics. I am astonished at its breadth, depth, and scholarship, at once encyclopaedic yet also highly readable.” —Lynn Scarlett, Chief External Affairs Officer, The Nature Conservancy

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Water seems ordinary - it pours from our taps and falls from the sky. But you would be surprised at what a profoundly strange substance it is. It defies the normal rules of chemistry, it has shaped the Earth, itslife and our civilisation.Without it, none of us would exist.Ian McGuire, The North Water: 'Subtle as a harpoon in the head, but totally gripping', book review 9 February 2016". Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022 . Retrieved 8 February 2016. Realism in American Literature, 1860-1890". Washington State University . Retrieved 8 December 2016.