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Selected as a Book of the Year byThe TimesandThe Economist
China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient element has so dramatically shaped the country's fate that it remains the key to unlocking China's story. That element is water.
InThe Water KingdomPhilip Ball takes us on a grand tour of China's defining element, from the rice terraces and towering karts of its battle-worn waterways, to the vast engineering projects that have struggled to contain water's wrath. What surfaces is the secret history of a people and a nation, drawn from its deep reverence for nature's most dynamic force.
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Philip Ballwrites regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences atNature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and includeCritical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another(winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books),The Music Instinct,Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything,Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under HitlerandInvisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics.
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