Beyond Control: The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico (America’s Third Coast S

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Author : James F. Barnett
Genre : Technology & Engineering

Summary : Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night

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Author : James F. Barnett
Genre : HISTORY

Summary : "Often depicted in popular culture as a timeless, unchanging icon of Middle America, Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico reveals the Mississippi as a river of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 19

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Author : Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : This book follows the historical trajectory of African Americans and their relationship with the Mississippi River dating back to the 1700s and ending with Hurricane Katrina and the still-contested Delta landscape. Long touted in literary and historical works, the Mississippi River remains an iconic

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Author : David L. Kirchman
Genre : Science

Summary : Dead zones are on the rise... Human activity has caused an increase in uninhabitable, oxygen-poor zones--also known as "dead zones"--in our waters. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, and it is a necessity for nearly all life on Earth. Yet many rivers, estuaries, coastal water

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Author : James F. Barnett
Genre : History

Summary : At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi’s American Indians, author James F. Barnett Jr. explores the hist

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Author : Tyler J. Kelley
Genre : History

Summary : A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers. The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportati

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Author : Paul F. Hudson
Genre : Medical

Summary : Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.

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Author : James F. Barnett Jr.
Genre : History

Summary : The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indian

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Author : Eric Wolanski
Genre : Science

Summary : Coasts and Estuaries: The Future provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver services that produce societal goods and benefits. These issues are addressed through chapters detailing case studies from estuarie

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Genre : Water resources development

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