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Water
This exciting new series tells children the story of energy today ... into tomorrow. Piece by piece the energy picture is fitted together - What is energy? Where is it? How is it used? Why is it important? The first title Water deals with the natural resources, their extraction, refinement and conversion into useable energy.
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40 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1966
About the author
Alun Lewis
44 books5 followersAlun Lewis (1915-1944) was born in Cwmaman. When he was 11, he won a scholarship to Cowbridge Grammar School, and it was here that he began to write well-crafted, thought-provoking fiction. A bright and sensitive boy, his talent for writing was evident from a young age and didn’t go unnoticed by his teachers; he had several stories, including ‘The Tale of the Dwarf’ and ‘The End of the Hunt’, published in his school magazine, The Bovian.
At 17 he won another scholarship to study History at Aberystwyth University, achieving first class honours, and in 1935 he moved to Manchester to study for his MA with the intention of becoming a teacher. When his training was complete he taught at Lewis Boys’ School in Pengam.
A pacifist by nature, Lewis appeared to have no intention of joining the army when the Second World War cast its shadow over Britain, but he eventually joined the Royal Engineers and later qualified as a Second Lieutenant despite how unhappy military life made him. He was stationed with the South Wales Borderers until December 1942, where he arrived at a new station in Nira, India. In the same year his poetry collection Raiders’ Dawn was published. It would be the only collection published during his lifetime.
Just over a year later, in February 1944, Lewis was moved to Burma. There he and his men fought the Japanese on the front line, despite Lewis’s rank meaning he could have remained at headquarters. Though he missed his wife, his family and his home, and struggled with severe depression, he was determined to fight for what he believed was right.
A month later, on the 5th March, 1944, Lewis was found shot in the head after shaving and washing, and died from the wound six hours later. He was 28 years old. Though it is widely believed to have been a tragic accident, there are others who believe Lewis’s death was a suicide. One thing we can be certain of is that his premature death was a great loss to Welsh, and indeed British, literature.
In 2015, Lewis's centenary year, Seren reprinted his Collected Poems, Collected Stories and Letters to My Wife, and also published his previously lost novel, Morlais.
At 17 he won another scholarship to study History at Aberystwyth University, achieving first class honours, and in 1935 he moved to Manchester to study for his MA with the intention of becoming a teacher. When his training was complete he taught at Lewis Boys’ School in Pengam.
A pacifist by nature, Lewis appeared to have no intention of joining the army when the Second World War cast its shadow over Britain, but he eventually joined the Royal Engineers and later qualified as a Second Lieutenant despite how unhappy military life made him. He was stationed with the South Wales Borderers until December 1942, where he arrived at a new station in Nira, India. In the same year his poetry collection Raiders’ Dawn was published. It would be the only collection published during his lifetime.
Just over a year later, in February 1944, Lewis was moved to Burma. There he and his men fought the Japanese on the front line, despite Lewis’s rank meaning he could have remained at headquarters. Though he missed his wife, his family and his home, and struggled with severe depression, he was determined to fight for what he believed was right.
A month later, on the 5th March, 1944, Lewis was found shot in the head after shaving and washing, and died from the wound six hours later. He was 28 years old. Though it is widely believed to have been a tragic accident, there are others who believe Lewis’s death was a suicide. One thing we can be certain of is that his premature death was a great loss to Welsh, and indeed British, literature.
In 2015, Lewis's centenary year, Seren reprinted his Collected Poems, Collected Stories and Letters to My Wife, and also published his previously lost novel, Morlais.
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February 3, 2017This book is not for everyone, but for naturalists and people interested in environmental conservation, it provides a general understanding of the natural movements of water -- the water cycle, groundwater, and the behavior of water in rivers. It's not light reading, but can be understood by the non-scientific reader, and I found it very useful.
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January 16, 2013I love this book because its by Luna Leopold. Sometime I would like to read it again.
Luna Leopold (yes, that's Aldo's brother!) created the watershed assessment methods I was trained to use while I worked for the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection. I was part of the Watershed Conservation Corps for the Shokan Watershed, which is the supply of water for the city of New York. Luna's methods were designed and used in the west, but those of us on the corps used them in upstate New York.
The films and textbooks I learned from pictured Luna doing the stream assessments: Measuring "bankfull", sketching the profile of each section of the stream, measuring the depths of the streams with the Topcon surveying equipment, and recording pebble and sediment sizes at each cross-section for stream channel roughness. I did that on the crew for the NYC watershed.
Because of what I learned from Luna Leopold, I can design a stream stability assessment and with some computer programming I can model stream morphology. The information from Luna's methods is helpful for purposes of determining erosion on streams. People need to know if they travel on roads that cross streams, if they live on elevations below a stream or river, or if they use land that might be effected by a change in any streams.
Water: A Primer is an introduction to the significant works of Luna Leopold, who is the foremost morphology engineer in the country and possibly the world. It tells about the effect of water on the earths' systems.
Luna Leopold (yes, that's Aldo's brother!) created the watershed assessment methods I was trained to use while I worked for the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection. I was part of the Watershed Conservation Corps for the Shokan Watershed, which is the supply of water for the city of New York. Luna's methods were designed and used in the west, but those of us on the corps used them in upstate New York.
The films and textbooks I learned from pictured Luna doing the stream assessments: Measuring "bankfull", sketching the profile of each section of the stream, measuring the depths of the streams with the Topcon surveying equipment, and recording pebble and sediment sizes at each cross-section for stream channel roughness. I did that on the crew for the NYC watershed.
Because of what I learned from Luna Leopold, I can design a stream stability assessment and with some computer programming I can model stream morphology. The information from Luna's methods is helpful for purposes of determining erosion on streams. People need to know if they travel on roads that cross streams, if they live on elevations below a stream or river, or if they use land that might be effected by a change in any streams.
Water: A Primer is an introduction to the significant works of Luna Leopold, who is the foremost morphology engineer in the country and possibly the world. It tells about the effect of water on the earths' systems.
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