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The Water Book (Paperback)
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The Water Book (Paperback)
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List price R337
Loot Price R306
Discovery Miles 3 060
You Save R31 (9%)
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Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps
and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't
live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very
strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of
molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer again and water
reveals itself as a key to a scientific story on the biggest of
canvases. Water is crucial to our survival - life depends on it -
but it was also fundamental in the origins of life on Earth. The
millions of gallons of water which make up our rivers, lakes and
oceans, originated in outer space. How it arrived here and how
those molecules of water were formed, is a story which takes us
back to the beginning of the universe. Indeed, we know more about
the depths of space than we do about the furthest reaches of the
oceans. Water has also shaped the world we live in. Whether it is
by gently carving the Grand Canyon over millennia, or in shaping
how civilisations were built; we have settled our cities along
rivers and coasts. Scientific studies show how we feel calmer and
more relaxed when next to water. We holiday by the seas and lakes.
Yet one day soon wars may be fought over access to water. The Water
Book will change the way you look at water. After reading it you
will be able to hold a glass of water up to the light and see
within it a strange molecule that connects you to the origins of
life, the birth (and death) of the universe, and to everyone who
ever lived.
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