Sunday, December 24, 2006

Notable essay:

Malcolm Turnbull, MP (Paliment of Australia, personal website).
"My five", The Austrlian, 01 November 2006.

Reviews several books on water resources, most focus on Australia's Murray-Darling River Basin but also includes some on America. The books reviewed are:

Australia's Water Resources: From Use to Management.
John Pigram, CSIRO Publishing, 2006.

When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When the Water Runs Out?.
Fred Pearce, Doubleday, 2006.

Rivers as Ecological Systems: The Murray-Darling Basin.
W.J. Young (ed), Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2001.

Talking Water: An Australian Guidebook for the 21st Century.
Farmhand Foundation, 2004, www.farmhand.org.au.

Water and Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin
Daniel Connell, Federation Press (February, 2007).

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water.
Mark Reisner, Penguin, 1993.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Current History, Vol. 105, No. 687, January 2006.
Issue topic: The Middle East

The article "A 'Shiite Crescent'? The Regional Impact of the Iraq War" by Juan Cole is particularly good at describing the various competing and incompatible political and religious factions in Iraq and neighboring countries.