50% OFF WATER & THE SHAPING OF CALIFORNIA; 20% OFF MAPS, GUIDES, TEACHER RESOURCES; $15 OFF WATER MORE OR LESS
Here’s a sweet deal for the holidays that won’t last much longer: Get the paperback “Water & the Shaping of California,” a treasure trove of gorgeous color photos, historic maps, water literature and famous sayings about water for just $17.50 — a 50% discount. That is just one of the special holiday discount offers from the Foundation. We’re also offering a 20% discount on our popular water maps, guides, teacher resources and more, and $15 off copies of “Water More or Less.” … We also have a special, limited-time deal on “Water More or Less”, co-authored and signed by Rita Schmidt Sudman, the Foundation’s former executive director and a long-time observer of the California water scene.
50% OFF WATER & THE SHAPING OF CALIFORNIA; 20% OFF MAPS, LAYPERSON’S GUIDES, TEACHER RESOURCES
Here’s a sweet deal for the holidays: Get 50 percent off the paperback Water & the Shaping of California, a treasure trove of gorgeous color photos, water literature and famous sayings about water. This beautifully designed oversize book discusses the engineering feats, political decisions and popular opinion that reshaped the nature – flood and drought – and society – gold, grain and growth – that led to the water projects that created the California we know today. The book Includes a foreword by the late Kevin Starr, the Golden State’s premier historian.
Looking for art for the new book, I [John Fleck] ran across the above picture from the amazing Library of Congress collection of Carol Highsmith’s work.
50% OFF WATER & THE SHAPING OF CALIFORNIA; 20% OFF MAPS, LAYPERSON’S GUIDES, TEACHER RESOURCES
Here’s a sweet deal for the holidays: Get 50 percent off the paperback Water & the Shaping of California, a treasure trove of gorgeous color photos, water literature and famous sayings about water. This beautifully designed oversize book discusses the engineering feats, political decisions and popular opinion that reshaped the nature – flood and drought – and society – gold, grain and growth – that led to the water projects that created the California we know today.
From Water | Food | Environment — The Blog of David Guy:
“In a brilliant new display on the intersection between the natural and human landscape, Butte County photographer Geoff Fricker explores the essence of the Sacramento Valley and reveals why the region is a California treasure that is unparalleled anywhere in the world.”
From the Redding Record Searchlight, in a commentary by Bill Keep:
“When Carey McWilliams published ‘California: The Great Exception’ through the University of California Press in 1949, we were in the midst of a four-year drought. In 1948 rain came in March — too little, too late. Losses totaled about $100 million, and only the agricultural giants were likely to survive.”
“Local author Larry Matthews will sign copies of his new book, ‘The Building of the Oroville Dam,’ tonight [March 20] at the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County in Yuba City.”
From the Los Angeles Times, in The Reading Life column by David L. Ulin:
“We are due for a storm, of course — two of them, one this evening and another beginning tomorrow night — and we all know how badly California needs the water, in the era of the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge. …
“Rain is the best thing about Southern California in winter; about anywhere it falls, really, but especially here.”
“What do the controversy over fracking, desalination costs, and the growing Syrian civil war have in common? Water. Global freshwater supply affects a broad range of issues, including public health, food crises, and environmental catastrophes.
The just-released eighth edition of The World’s Water series, edited by Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute and the world’s foremost expert on freshwater, shows how water touches everything.
“The most difficult thing about a water crisis, says Robert Glennon in ‘Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It’ (445 pages, Island Press, 2009) is convincing folks there’s a crisis.”
“‘The Fracking War,’ written by [Michael] Fitzgerald, is a book about the practice of hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking. …
“The events unfold through the main character — a newspaper reporter who has gotten wind of widespread sickness as a result of the fracking activities in the community.”
“Gregory Zuckerman’s book ‘The Frackers’ tells the unexpected story of how a once-obscure method of producing oil and natural gas from shale rock led to a huge American energy boom – and to a bitter debate over whether that’s a great thing or an environmental disaster.”
“The history of oil and natural gas extraction has largely been the story of men with long straws, as Daniel Day-Lewis memorably demonstrated in ‘There Will Be Blood,’ trying to drink one another’s milkshakes.
“Gregory Zuckerman, in his new book ‘The Frackers,’ plants a less cozy image in your mind.
Author Patrick Betson is a storyteller. … He has handpicked some of his favorite tales and brought them together in a 12-story collection, ‘The Ghost’s of Lake Tahoe: The Stuff of Legends.’ …
“Some of Betson’s characters are fictional and others we recognize: John C.
From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, in a commentary by Eric Pooley:
“The people who are paid to spread doubt and confusion about our changing climate have been working overtime this week, because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body that includes thousands of the world’s best climate scientists, has just issued its latest assessment. …
“Phil Garone, an associate professor at California State University, Stanislaus, will talk about his new book, ‘The Fall and Rise of Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley.’”
