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Dillon, Peter James. The relative magnitude of phosphorus sources for small, oligotrophic lakes in Ontario, Canada. [Toronto]: Queen's Printer for Ontario, 1992.

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Dillon, Peter James. The relative magnitude of phosphorus sources for small, oligotrophic lakes in Ontario, Canada. Toronto, Ont: Ministry of the Environment, 1992.

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Robinson, David A. Soil water content estimates based on the measurement of soil relative permittivity: Unse of capacitance : Time domain reflectometry and impedance sensors. [S.l: The Author], 1998.

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Hippe, Daniel J. Hydrogeology, herbicides and nutrients in ground water and springs, and relation of water quality to land use and agricultural practices near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Lemoyne, Pa: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1994.

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Pope, Larry M. Atrazine in surface water and relation to hydrologic conditions within the Delaware River Basin Pesticide Management Area, northeast Kansas, July 1992 through December 1994. [Reston, Va.?]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1995.

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James, William F. Diffusive and kinetic fluxes of phosphorus from sediments in relation to phosphorus dynamics in Lake Pepin, Upper Mississippi River. [Vicksburg, Miss: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, 1999.

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Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Agriculture. A review of section 576.045, F.S., relating to nitrates (scheduled to expire Dec. 31, 2003). [Tallahassee, Fla.]: The Committee, 2003.

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McFarland, E. Randolph. Relation of land use to nitrogen concentration in ground water in the Patuxent River Basin, Maryland. Towson, Md: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1995.

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McFarland, E. Randolph. Relation of land use to nitrogen concentration in ground water in the Patuxent River Basin, Maryland. Towson, Md: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1995.

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McFarland, E. Randolph. Relation of land use to nitrogen concentration in ground water in the Patuxent River Basin, Maryland. Towson, Md: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1995.

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Bushon, Rebecca N. Microbiological water quality in relation to water-contact recreation, Cuyahoga River, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, 2000 and 2002. Reston, Va: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2004.

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Vannkvalitet og helse: Analyse av en mulig sammenheng mellom aluminium i drikkevann og aldersdemens = Water quality and health : study of a possible relation between aluminium in drinking water and dementia. Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå, 1986.

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Water. Perfection Learning, 2005.

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Pesticide concentrations in surface waters of New York State in relation to land use - 1997. [Reston, Va.]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1998.

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Ground-water discharge and base-flow nitrate loads of nontidal streams, and their relation to a hydrogeomorphic classification of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, middle Atlantic coast. Baltimore, Md: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1998.

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Joseph, Bachman L., and Geological Survey (U.S.), eds. Ground-water discharge and base-flow nitrate loads of nontidal streams, and their relation to a hydrogeomorphic classification of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, middle Atlantic coast. Baltimore, Md: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1998.

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Lemos, Maria Carmen, and Christine Kirchhoff. Climate Information and Water Management. Edited by Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199335084.013.17.

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Climate-change projections suggest water managers, policymakers, and planners will need to grapple both with increased stress on water supplies and more climate variability and extremes. In the context of water governance, climate information can play a critical role in informing planning preparedness and response options; however, research shows that the level of use of climate information among water managers is still relatively low. This review examines three different disconnects at the intersection of scientific knowledge and water management. First, it tackles the disconnect between the production of knowledge and that knowledge’s application in specific water-management decision contexts. Second, it explores the disconnect between what different water management models, such as integrated water resource management, should in principle do to foster the use of climate information and how well they accomplish this goal in practice. Third, it examines the potential disconnect between adoption of climate information and adaptive capacity building.
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Joseph, Bachman L., and Geological Survey (U.S.), eds. Ground-water discharge and base-flow nitrate loads of nontidal streams, and their relation to a hydrogeomorphic classification of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Middle Atlantic coast. Baltimore, Md: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1998.

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Cullet, Philippe, and Sujith Koonan, eds. Other Legal Instruments Incorporating a Water Dimension. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199472475.003.0011.

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This chapter reproduces legal instruments that cover a number of activities and sectors that depend on freshwater and are therefore relevant in the water law context. The first three sections focus on legal instruments relating to fishing, navigation, and electricity production. Mining is an important commercial activity with severe implications on water and the fourth section explains how water related concerns have been addressed in legal instruments regulating mining activities in different states. The next section captures how rural employment schemes are linked to the water sector. It also covers an instrument relating to land acquisition that is relevant to water resource development projects. The next section focuses on water-related crimes as prescribed in the general criminal law of the country. The last section captures some of the important instruments that protect the interests of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in the context of access to and management of water.
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Water Thematic Unit. Teacher Created Resources, 2004.

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Wilder, Margaret, and Helen Ingram. Knowing Equity When We See It. Edited by Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199335084.013.11.

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This chapter argues for a greater commitment to water equity and a transformation of water governance. Marrying contradictory principles flawed the global water governance paradigm that emerged in the 1990s. Efficiency and equity are often incompatible, and unequal power relations are embedded in many longstanding water institutions and concepts. The chapter suggests that the epistemology of water and the vocabulary and fundamental concepts used to understand water, including its socio-nature and close relation with politics, must be transformed. It introduces five “directional principles” to guide thinking about a transformational governance. It also reviews these principles in light of four real-world cases. Decades of water scholarship provide a critical lens to search for equity, but recognizing equity when it occurs in specific contexts, such as the Colorado River Delta or the city of Detroit, where new networks have emerged to challenge existing rules and power relations, is also vital.
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Dayna Nadine, Scott. Part IV Federalism, B Federalism in Context, Ch.23 The Environment, Federalism, and the Charter. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780190664817.003.0023.

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This chapter reviews the key jurisprudential developments in relation to the division of powers in Canada, exploring how the shared jurisdiction over the “environment” created by sections 91 and 92 of the Constitution has historically shaped and continues to shape environmental law and policy. In addition to this federal-provincial struggle, the chapter considers the current trend towards local regulation of environmental matters according to the principle of “subsidiarity”, and the growing recognition of the “inherent jurisdiction” of Indigenous peoples. The contemporary dynamics are explored through two critical policy case studies highlighting barriers to environmental justice: safe drinking water on reserves, and climate change mitigation. The review reveals that Canada’s constitutional framework, although not solely responsible, has contributed to our collective failure to achieve a coordinated and effective set of environmental laws and policies, which translates to unequal distribution of environmental benefits and burdens on the ground.
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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk Chptr Supp Lv5 Ch4 Water Resources. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk Lv5 Chp5 Challenge a Drop of Water. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk 6pk Chp Sup L5 Ch4 Water Resources. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk Chptr Supp Lv5 Ch5 the Water Cycle. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk Lv4 Chp7 on Level Wind, Water, and Ice. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk 6pk L5 C5 Challnge a Drop of Water. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk 6pk Chp Sup L5 Ch5 the Water Cycle. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk Lv5 Chp4 Challenge Where Does Drinking Water Come From? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk Chptr Supp Lv3 Ch1 Adaptions to Land and Water. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Omorogbe, Yinka, and Ada Ordor, eds. Ending Africa's Energy Deficit and the Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819837.001.0001.

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The book Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa addresses the role of law in securing energy access for huge numbers of people in Africa who live without the benefit of modern energy services. Contributions to the book offer a variety of legal and socio-legal perspectives on the subject of energy access, describing the dire situation of energy poverty on the African continent and emphasizing its implications for overall development. Specific themes addressed include the concept of energy justice, the international human rights framework for advancing the notion of a right to energy, and the role of regulation and legal reform in achieving the desired levels of energy access. In particular, attention is focused on the use of law and policy to create an enabling environment, including appropriate dispute resolution mechanisms, for the financing of energy infrastructure and the development of new forms of energy. In relation to the latter, key considerations for constituting intellectual property governance regimes that promote access to relevant technology are canvassed. Furthermore, the disproportionate impact of energy poverty on women, children, and disabled persons is highlighted in the context of the limitations of existing law and the growing recognition of this reality in emerging legal interventions. The environmental dimension, which similarly affects these vulnerable population groups, is directed at the water-energy nexus, critical to the provision of clean water and clean energy. The focus on Nigeria and South Africa in some chapters reflects the institutional collaboration from which this volume has emerged.
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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk 6pk L5 C4 Challnge Where Does Drinking Water Come From? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Ind Bk 6pk Chp Sup L3 Ch1 Adaptions to Land and Water. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Staff, Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Science California: Independent Book 6 Pack Level 4 C7 on Level Level 4 Wind, Water, and Ice. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.

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Gargani, Luna, and Marcelo-Haertel Miglioranza. Lung ultrasound. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198726012.003.0016.

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The lung is a relatively new site for the application of ultrasound. Beyond the more established assessment of pleural effusion, this organ has been traditionally considered off limits for sonographic investigation, since air is a well-known foe of the ultrasound beam. However, in recent years it has been shown that this apparent physical limitation can be overcome when the air content decreases, as happens in a diseased pulmonary parenchyma. The most useful lung ultrasound sign for cardiologists is the presence of B-lines, the sonographic hallmark of pulmonary interstitial syndrome, including interstitial pulmonary oedema. Bilateral multiple B-lines are present in patients with pulmonary congestion and may help assess and semiquantify the extent of extravascular lung water in patients with heart failure. This sign is low cost, easy to perform, can be repeated at bedside, and does not employ ionizing radiation. Lung ultrasound is also useful for detecting other pulmonary conditions such as pneumothorax, and lung consolidations such as pneumonia or pulmonary infarction.
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Burt, Ramsay. Blasting Out of the Past. Edited by Mark Franko. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314201.013.17.

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This chapter analyzes three reenactments by the Slovenian director Janez Janša, two reconstructions of experimental performances made under communism in Ljubljana during the late 1960s and early 1970s by poets and performers associated with the Pupilija group, and one which subversively reappropriates canonical contemporary dance works from the United States, Germany, and Japan. The two earlier works, it argues, interrogate the utopian ideals espoused by the communist partisans who freed Yugoslavia from German occupation during World War II. It develops a framework for this analysis by drawing on Walter Benjamin’s discussion of the philosophy of history and on Michel de Certeau’s work on memory and the everyday. It places the three reconstructions in their social, historical, and political context and evaluates their meanings in relation to misperceptions about art in post-communist countries.
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Bainbridge, Simon. The New Century: 1800–1815. Edited by David Duff. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660896.013.3.

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This chapter examines the relationship between the historical events and the literature of 1800–15. It suggests that these years remain relatively understudied and identifies the important literary landmarks as they appeared to both contemporary and modern observers. It characterizes the period’s writing as ‘war literature’, examining Walter Scott’s status as ‘the “mighty minstrel” of the Antigallican war’ and exploring the rise of Lord Byron and Felicia Hemans within the context of the Peninsular War. The chapter investigates the relationship between literature and national identity following the Acts of Union, looking at the recovery of national literatures, the revival of the epic, and the emergence of the novel as the form best suited to negotiating issues of national identity. It concludes by examining how writers responded to the Industrial Revolution and the development of Great Britain’s global power, one aspect of this being the emergence of literary ‘Orientalism’.
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Perrings, Charles, and Ann Kinzig. Conservation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190613600.001.0001.

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This book explores the process by which people decide to conserve or convert natural resources. Building on a seminal study by Harold Hotelling that connects conservation to expected changes in the value of resources, the authors develop the general principles involved in conservation science. The focus of the book is the resources of the natural environment. This includes both directly exploited resources such as agricultural soils, minerals, forests, and fish stocks, and biodiversity—the wild species and natural ecosystems put at risk when people choose to convert natural habitat, or to discharge waste products to water, land, or air. The theory of conservation shows how much or how little to extract from the environment, and how much to leave intact. It also shows how conservation decisions are influenced by the existence of market failures—the external impacts of market decisions on ecosystems, and the public good nature of many ecosystem services. It shows how conservation connects to expected changes in the relative importance or value of natural resources, and what is needed to uncover that value. It shows how context matters. Decisions about the conservation of natural resources are influenced by property rights—whether land is private property or in the public domain; by environmental policies, laws, and regulations within countries; and by environmental agreements between countries. Finally, this book shows how conservation differs within and beyond protected areas, how it connects to the system of environmental governance, and how governance structures have evolved over time.
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Dell, Katharine J. The Solomonic Corpus of 'Wisdom' and Its Influence. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861560.001.0001.

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Solomon is the figurehead who holds the family of ‘wisdom’ texts together. I argue that Proverbs and Ecclesiastes forms the core of the ‘Solomonic wisdom corpus’, with the Song of Songs as a close relative, but Job at one remove. These three contain attributions to him and demonstrate key ‘wisdom’ connections. Solomon is also portrayed as an idealized character in the narratives about him in 2 Sam 24-1 Kings 11. He is the embodiment of wisdom, thus linking the narrative portrayal and canonical memory of his significance. His connections with Egypt and Sheba shed light on how Solomon gained his reputation for wisdom, as do the roles in his court for scribes, sages and seers. Formative wisdom themes, notably that of God as creator, characterize the book of Proverbs and influenced ‘wisdom psalms’, and the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, texts which also share links to wisdom ideas and contexts, with criticism of ‘the wise’ as a key concern. I then introduce an intertextual method to open up fresh possibilities of ranging together different texts alongside the Solomonic corpus, without the constraints of probing literary or historical linkages: Ruth is considered with Proverbs, Genesis 1–11 with Ecclesiastes, and the wider theme of gardens and water in the Hebrew Bible with the Song of Songs. While Solomon probably had very little to do with such readerly text-play, my argument in this book is that he is the lynch-pin that holds ‘wisdom’ in its core texts and wider family together.
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Dolman, Han. Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779308.001.0001.

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This book describes the interaction of the main biogeochemical cycles of the Earth and the physics of climate. It takes the perspective of Earth as an integrated system and provides examples of both changes in the current climate and those in the geological past. The first three chapters offer a general introduction to the context of the book, outlining the climate system as a complex interplay between biogeochemistry and physics and describing the tools available for understanding climate: observations and models. These chapters describe the basics of the system, the rates and magnitudes and the crucial aspects of biogeochemical cycles needed to understand their functioning. The second part of the book consists of four chapters that describe the physics required to understand the interaction of the climate with biogeochemistry and change. These chapters describe the physics of radiation, and that of the atmosphere, ocean circulation and thermodynamics. The interaction of aerosols with radiation and clouds is addressed in an additional chapter. The third part of the book deals with Earth’s (bio)geochemical cycles. These chapters focus on the stocks and fluxes of the main reservoirs of Earth’s biogeochemical cycles—atmosphere, land and ocean—and their role in the cycles of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, iron, phosphorus, oxygen, sulphur and water, as well as their interactions with climate. The final two chapters describe possible mitigation and adaptation actions, in relation to recent climate agreements, but always with an emphasis on the biogeochemical aspects.
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Bridges, John C. Evolution of the Martian Crust. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.013.18.

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This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Planetary Science. Please check back later for the full article.Mars, which has a tenth of the mass of Earth, has cooled as a single lithospheric plate. Current topography gravity maps and magnetic maps do not show signs of the plate tectonics processes that have shaped the Earth’s surface. Instead, Mars has been shaped by the effects of meteorite bombardment, igneous activity, and sedimentary—including aqueous—processes. Mars also contains enormous igneous centers—Tharsis and Elysium, with other shield volcanoes in the ancient highlands. In fact, the planet has been volcanically active for nearly all of its 4.5 Gyr history, and crater counts in the Northern Lowlands suggest that may have extended to within the last tens of millions of years. Our knowledge of the composition of the igneous rocks on Mars is informed by over 100 Martian meteorites and the results from landers and orbiters. These show dominantly tholeiitic basaltic compositions derived by melting of a relatively K, Fe-rich mantle compared to that of the Earth. However, recent meteorite and lander results reveal considerable diversity, including more silica-rich and alkaline igneous activity. These show the importance of a range of processes including crystal fractionation, partial melting, and possibly mantle metasomatism and crustal contamination of magmas. The figures and plots of compositional data from meteorites and landers show the range of compositions with comparisons to other planetary basalts (Earth, Moon, Venus). A notable feature of Martian igneous rocks is the apparent absence of amphibole. This is one of the clues that the Martian mantle had a very low water content when compared to that of Earth.The Martian crust, however, has undergone hydrothermal alteration, with impact as an important heat source. This is shown by SNC analyses of secondary minerals and Near Infra-Red analyses from orbit. The associated water may be endogenous.Our view of the Martian crust has changed since Viking landers touched down on the planet in 1976: from one almost entirely dominated by basaltic flows to one where much of the ancient highlands, particularly in ancient craters, is covered by km deep sedimentary deposits that record changing environmental conditions from ancient to recent Mars. The composition of these sediments—including, notably, the MSL Curiosity Rover results—reveal an ancient Mars where physical weathering of basaltic and fractionated igneous source material has dominated over extensive chemical weathering.
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Gilmour, Rachelle. Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190938079.001.0001.

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Much of the drama, theological paradox, and interpretive interest in the book of Samuel derives from instances of God’s violence in the story. The beginnings of Israel’s monarchy are interwoven with God’s violent rejection of the houses of Eli and of Saul, deaths connected to the Ark of the Covenant, and the outworking of divine retribution after David’s violent appropriation of Bathsheba as his wife. Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel explores these narratives of divine violence from ethical, literary, and political perspectives, in dialogue with the thought of Immanuel Kant, Martha Nussbaum, and Walter Benjamin. The book addresses such questions as: Is the God of Samuel a capricious God with a troubling dark side? Is punishment for sin the only justifiable violence in these narratives? Why does God continue to punish those already declared forgiven? What is the role of God’s emotions in acts of divine violence? In what political contexts might narratives of divine violence against God’s own kings and God’s own people have arisen? The result is a fresh commentary on the dynamics of transgression, punishment, and their upheavals in the book of Samuel. The book offers a sensitive portrayal of God’s literary characterisation, with a focus on divine emotion and its effects. By identifying possible political contexts in which the narratives arose, God’s violence is further illumined through its relation to human violence, northern and southern monarchic ideology, and Judah’s experience of the Babylonian exile.
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Napolin, Julie Beth. The Fact of Resonance. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288175.001.0001.

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The Fact of Resonance returns to the imperial and colonial contexts in which Anglophone and francophone narrative theory developed, seeking an alternative sonic premise for theorizing narrative form. The exclusion of postcolonial sound and acoustics is foundational not only to modernist studies, but to narrative theory, novel theory, and the strains of film theory they orient. The study is primarily focused on Joseph Conrad and concerns the bearing of his multilingual formation and attunement to the gender and race of sound in colonial encounter. To return to Conrad is to return to the repressed of colonial sound. Bringing new methodologies of sound studies and postcolonial studies to bear upon older models of narrative and close reading, the book argues the novel to be a sound technology. This technology captures not “facts,” but a fact of resonance, which is both a physical sound and a strategy of relation across difference. The book develops a methodology of reading for resonance, while also developing a vocabulary for the acoustic unconscious of texts. These readings focus on the way that imaginary sound and voice circulate within and between texts, from page to psyche, from colonial site to metropole, and across race and gender. The book follows the resonances between Conrad and a series of writers and artists, including Chantal Akerman, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, and William Faulkner. Ultimately, the transatlantic and transpacific are resonance, less a place than an event.
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Ross, Andrew. Bird on Fire. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199828265.001.0001.

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Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places like Portland, Seattle, and New York that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing their responsibility to address climate change.
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