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  • OF STONES AND MAN
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    OF STONES AND MAN
    JEAN KERISEL
    Of Stones and Man explores the many errors of judgement made by civilizations both ancient and modern across the world. Arrogance and a penchant for excess drove mankind to build ever greater and more ambitious edifices. The author analyzes these works from a scientific and historically-sensitive perspective, highlighting the hydro-geological background to repeated infamous dis...

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  • THE NILE AND ITS MASTERS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
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    THE NILE AND ITS MASTERS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
    JEAN KERISEL
    The Pharoahs were masters of the Nile: they had a detailed understanding of the ways of the river.  Modern Egyptians see themselves as heirs to this tradition, and as owners of the Nile waters.   In the 1960's,  Egypt decided to protect its increasingly-populated Nile valley from the ravages of annual flooding by building a dam. A relatively small dam in the valley of Nubia, in...

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  • DOWN TO EARTH
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    DOWN TO EARTH
    JEAN KERISEL
    Written in straightforward non-technical language, with numerous diagrams and photographs, this book takes a look at ‘the invisible art’ of the great builders: how they founded their constructions in the earth and strove to understand and combat the natural forces, such as earth pressures, water, landslides, earthquakes, and almost imperceptible geological changes, with which t...

    $4,500.00

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