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|a Selbst, Nina.
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|a Writ in Water
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|b A Journey of Discovery.
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|a Intro -- Part 1 IN THE BEGINNING -- A Word of Introduction -- Chapter 1.1 Mediterranean Creation Myths -- The Mediterranean Basin -- Babylon: the Oldest Stories of All -- Egyptian Cosmogony -- Creation through the Eyes of the Israelites -- Greek Cosmogony -- Mediterranean Myths in Perspective -- Chapter 1.2 Creation Myths of Asia -- The Sources of Asian Cosmogony and Cosmology -- Chapter 1.3 Creation Myths of Tribal Societies -- On the Road to Civilization -- Africa -- North America -- Part 2 ROADS TO CIVILIZATION -- Chapter 2.1 On the Road to Civilization Water as a Catalyst
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|a Chapter 2.2 A Glance at Early Civilizations -- Mesopotamia -- Some Cities of Mesopotamia -- The Indus Valley -- China -- In Conclusion -- Chapter 2.3 Weather and Weltanschauung- The People of the Bible -- The Bible as Source -- The Flood -- The Patriarchs -- Wells -- Exodus from Egypt -- Sojourn in the Wilderness -- The Promised Land -- Climate, Character and Weltanschauung -- Water as Metaphor -- Water and Wellbeing -- Threat, Admonition, Awe, Fear and Despair -- Chapter 2.4 Water in Law -- Introduction -- The Code of Hammurabi -- The Code of Manu -- Part 3 CITIES AND THEIR WATER
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|a A Word of Introduction -- Chapter 3.1 Jerusalem and its Waters -- Unique among the Cities -- Beginnings -- The City of David -- Water for Survival -- The Gihon Spring -- Cisterns-Public and Private -- Conserving the Flood Waters -- Water from Afar-Aqueducts -- Water and Lifestyle -- After the Destruction of the Second Temple -- The Nineteenth Century -- The End of Ottoman Rule: World War I and After -- A Modern-Day Siege -- Statehood and After -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3.2 The Waters of Rome -- Rome and its Waters -- Beginnings -- The Republic -- The First Aqueducts -- The Empire
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|a Decline and Recovery -- The Gifts of the Popes -- The Secular City -- The New Aqueducts -- The System -- Management -- Castella, Mostre and Just Plain Fountains -- Fountains -- From Past to Future -- Chapter 3.3 Body and Soul -- Early Days -- Crete -- Egypt -- The Greeks -- The Israelites -- Far Eastern Ablutions -- Early Christians -- The Romans and After -- Urban Revival and New Patterns of Sanitation -- The Bath-Precepts and Practice in Medieval Days -- The Decline of the Bath -- The Return to Respectability -- Near Eastern Ablutions -- Into the Twentieth Century
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|a And Into the Twenty-First Century -- Endword -- Chapter 3.4 Water Quality -- Introduction -- What Hippocrates Preached -- And What Frontinus Practiced -- After the Romans -- The English Experience -- Perception Precedes Practice -- The Analysis of Water -- Social Philosophy -- At the Turn of the Millennium -- Chapter 3.5 Circles, Cycles and Cascades -- A Word of Introduction -- From Water to Wastewater -- Ancient Greeks -- Rome: the Cloaca Maxima and Some Lesser Sewers -- Sewers and Society-the Underground Life of Paris -- Note on Victor Hugo and the Sewers of Paris
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|a Water and civilization.
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