LIFE SCIENCE LIBRARY Water 1966 Hard Cover Leopold

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LIFE SCIENCE LIBRARY WATER by Luna B. Leopold, Kenneth S. Davis and the Editors of LIFE.  Consulting Editors:  Rene Dubos, Henry Margenau, C. P. Snow.  Time Incorporated, New York.  1966 Time, Inc.  Library of Congress catalogue card number 66-18677.  School and library distribution by Silver Burdett Company.

CONTENTS:

Introduction - 7

1. A Maverick Compound - 8 - Picture Essay: The Unpredictable Water Molecule - 16

2. A Sun-Powered Cycle - 32 - Picture Essay: The Long Voyage from Sea to Sea - 42

3. The Underground Reservoir - 54 - Picture Essay: Mapping a World of Groundwater - 62

4. Sculpturing the Planet - 74 - Picture Essay: How Erosion Makes Landscapes - 84

5. Fountain of Life - 102 - Picture Essay: The Indispensable fluid - 110

6. Wellsprings of Civilization - 120 - Picture Essay: Profile of a Great River - 128

7. The All-Purpose Substance - 144 - Picture Essay: Putting Water to Work - 154

8. Scarcity Admidst Plenty - 170 - Picture Essay: The Diary of a Drink 178

Appendix - 193

The Dictionary of the Hydrologist

Further Reading and Acknowledgments - 196

Index - 197

Picture Credits - 200

"ABOUT THIS BOOK

"THE STORY OF WATER is in many ways the story of life itself.  Water is the major substance of every living thing on earth.  Main is dependent on it not only for drinking but also for power, transportation and irrigation.  As modern technology demands more and more water, ways must be constantly devised to tap new resources and to make reusable the water man has polluted.

"This book tells of the nature of water, what it can do and how it is used by man.  Each text chapter is supplemented by a picture essay, which may be read independently.  For example, Chapter 2, 'A Sun-powered Cycle,' explains the hydrologic cycle; it is followed by a picture essay entitled 'The Long Voyage from Sea to Sea,' which offers a different perspective on the same ceaseless journey that water makes from sea to atmosphere to land, and back to sea."

"ON THE COVER

"A giant wave, whipped up by a powerful North Pacific storm hundreds of miles away, crashes into Waimea Bay in the Hawaiian Islands.  On the back cover, idealized views of a raindrop, a snowflake and steam represent the liquid, solid and gaseous states of water."

This was a library book from Cleveland Heights - University Heights Public Library - has library marks.  In a thumb through, I am not seeing any writing (other than from the library), torn or bent pages.  Hard cover -- has some shelf wear.  10

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