01611nam a22002417a 4500 20260512123348.0 251111b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780300278491 International Book Distributors Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 122130 122130 : Raghav Books Private Limited : 2/25, First Floor Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi : 2659 : 8/5/2026 363.34 SCO Scott, James C. In Praise of Floods : The Untamed River and the Life It Brings. / James C. Scott, , London : Yale University Press , 2025. xxi, 220p. : 24cm. 1736 Rivers, 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. Flood Life of Brings River James C Scott BOOK 66595 66595 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-11-11 International Book Distributors 1736.00 0 363.34 SCO 31170 2025-11-11 10:15:54 2025-11-11 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-05-12 Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. 1838.00 0 363.34 SCO 31503 2026-05-12 12:34:15 2026-05-12 BOOK