Examining how water permeates all of human existence, this book provides an overview of how to establish human-water connections and achieve a deeper understanding of water's importance in everyday life. It outlines the important cultural and...
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Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR-Bibliothek
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Examining how water permeates all of human existence, this book provides an overview of how to establish human-water connections and achieve a deeper understanding of water's importance in everyday life. It outlines the important cultural and psychological roles water plays in terms of art, architecture, environmental science and engineering, history, nature writing, and a number of other areas. As they learn about how to experience water through adventure, contemplation, and contact, readers gain wisdom about how to preserve untainted water in their own lives. Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Forewords -- A Fluidity of Mind-Laura Sewall -- Water Works-Herbert Dreiseitl -- Prologue -- Aponiptein, Dikaion,Touton -- Introduction: Ripple Effects -- Part I: Plunging In: Precepts -- Chapter One: Main Streams: The Cultural History of Water -- Chapter Two: Undercurrents: Sources of Aquatic Anxiety -- Chapter Three: Head Waters, Water Balms: Liquid Solace -- PART II: Wetted Appetites: Approaches -- Chapter Four: Adventure -- Chapter Five: Joy -- Chapter Six: Contact -- Chapter Seven: Contemplation -- PART III: Surfacing: Implementation -- Chapter Eight: Reversing the Flow: Human-WaterRestorations -- Chapter Nine:Turning the Tide: Rehydration Education -- Chapter Ten: Source Springs: Imbibing Thoreau's Water of Life -- Epilogue: Stirred Not Shaken -- References -- Quotation Index -- Acknowledgements.
