01559nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801270007602801230020308200150032610000210034124500880036226000470045030000240049736500090052152007540053065000100128465000190129465000100131370000180132320260512123348.0251111b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780300278491  aInternational Book DistributorsbFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhic122130d122130  a: Raghav Books Private Limitedb: 2/25, First Floor Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhic: 2659d: 8/5/2026  a363.34 SCO  a Scott, James C.  aIn Praise of Floodsb: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings.c/ James C. Scott,  a, Londonb: Yale University Pressc, 2025.  axxi, 220p.c: 24cm.  b1736  aRivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change and shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered.
 
It is the annual flood-pulse—the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain—that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood-pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture.  aFlood  aLife of Brings  aRiver  aJames C Scott