From Publishers WeeklyThis sprawling text reconstructs the history of civilization in order to illuminate the importance of water in human development from the first civilizations ...
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In this rich, irreverent, compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and t...