- Water resources development, Rural development, asia, Asia, central, history, Soviet union, politics and government
The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a time when engineers, scientists, politicians, and entrepreneurs around the world united in the belief that universal scientific knowledge, together with modern technologies, could be used to transform large areas…
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and cool.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Maya K. Peterson
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781108475471
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