Recent Acquisitions March 2007

Subject	Call No. and Title

Aresenic -- Toxicology
	162676 Meharg, Andrew A. Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused the World’s Worst Mass Poisoning. New York: Macmillan, 2005. Venomous Earth explores the geology, politics and biology of why between 40 and 80 million people in India and Bangladesh are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused 100,000 cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Meharg compares this scenario with that in other areas of the world where drinking water is tainted with arsenic, such as extensive areas of the southwestern US, the Alto Plano of South America and New Zealand's volcanic regions.

Climatic changes -- Government policy -- United States
	030795 National Research Council. Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, c2001. Also available on the Web at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10139.html#toc Climate Change Science characterizes the global warming trend over the last 100 years, and examines what may be in store for the 21st century and the extent to which warming may be attributable to human activity.

Coastal plants -- Great Lakes region
	290251 Weatherbee, Ellen Elliott. Guide to Great Lakes Coastal Plants. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Weatherbee provides simple yet authoritative descriptions of sixty-seven of the most interesting plants found on the United States and Canadian shores. Each plant is illustrated with color photographs and line drawings for ease in identification. Wildlife and ethnobotanical uses add fascinating information about the plants, and distribution maps are included for easy reference.

Human ecology -- Moral and ethical aspects
	201635 Rolston, Holmes, III. Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Environmental Ethics is a systematic account of values carried by the natural world, coupled with an inquiry into duties toward animals, plants, species, and ecosystems. Written in an engaging style, using diagrams and figures as well as numerous case studies, Rolston prods the reader into concrete application and invites reader participation in the ethical discussions. Here is an adventure into what it means to live as responsible human beings in the community of life on Earth.

Inland water transportation -- Missouri River -- History
	191122 Corbin, Annalies. The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud, or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2006 The flagship of I. G. Baker & Company, Red Cloud, was a symbol—and a source—of the trading company's success. This stern-wheeled, wooden-hulled packet boat carried both cargo and passengers on a "floating palace." The first book to view the development of the Canadian Rockies from a maritime perspective, The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud ties the Missouri River's commercial development with the opening of the Canadian West and with the formation of the Canadian North-West Mounted Police.

Medical climatology
	030796 National Research Council. Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, c2001. Also available on the Web at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10025.html#toc This report evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understanding of these linkages. It also examines the potential for using climate forecasts and ecological observations to help predict infectious disease outbreaks, and most importantly if we can predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world.

Mississippi River
	191118 Russell, Charles Edward. A-Rafting on the Mississip’. 1st Minnesota Press ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001 During the nineteenth century, pine logs were lashed together to form easily floatable rafts that traveled from Minnesota and Wisconsin down the Mississippi River to build the farms and towns of the virtually treeless lower Midwest. These huge log rafts were steered down the river by steamboat pilots whose skill and intimate knowledge of the river's many hazards were legendary. Charles Edward Russell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the history and river lore of seventy years of lumber rafting.

Natural history -- Colorado River
	071168 Fleck, Richard F., ed. A Colorado River Reader. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000. A Colorado River Reader spans hundreds of years and many cultures and voices to capture an array of responses to this mighty river and its tributaries. The collection opens with a Paiute creation myth set in the Grand Canyon and progresses through time, encompassing the Spanish and American exploration narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and culminating in the adventure and nature writings of the twentieth.

Natural resources -- Minnesota
	071172 Waters, Thomas F. The Superior North Shore. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. From the trout and salmon swimming in its icy depths to the red and white pines towering overhead, Lake Superior has an ancient past. As Waters depicts the geology of the region, he traces the development of the rugged shoreline from Duluth to Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie. The Superior North Shore also vividly describes the human history lived out in this sometimes harsh, always spectacular natural setting, from the earliest Native Americans to the voyageurs to the modern fishing industry.

Oceanography
	110233 Stow, Dorrik A. V. Oceans: An Illustrated Reference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Organized in two parts, the book covers all major areas of oceanographic knowledge and research. Part One, Ocean Systems, explores the physical nature of the oceans. Part Two, Ocean Life, provides a panoramic view of the ocean as the cradle of myriad forms of life. Oceans also offers readers a host of tools to better understand the magnificent world of the sea. A comprehensive and exhaustive overview of all aspects of the oceans, this book contains information beneficial for almost anyone interested in the topic.

Rocks -- Collection and preservation -- Lake Michigan
	071174 Mueller, Bruce and Kevin Gauthier. Lake Michigan Rock Picker’s Guide. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Bruce Mueller is the rock expert who brought you the very popular Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones. Mueller researched the entire shoreline of Lake Michigan to write this guide to Lake Michigan rocks. This is the perfect guidebook for anyone or any family who walks the beach and wonders, "What is this?" It includes numerous photographs of rocks to aid in identification.

Shipwrecks -- Great Lakes
	191121 Bourrie, Mark. Many a Midnight Ship: True Stories of Great Lakes Shipwrecks. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Many a Midnight Ship brings to life the powerful history of the greatest northern waterway of the North American continent. These fourteen stories illustrate the majesty of the Great Lakes and the tragedy bestowed upon its waters. These stories recount not only the calamities the Great Lakes have seen, but the remarkable acts of heroism, courage, and survival that have arisen when humans defy nature.

Solar water heaters
	240548 Ramlow, Bob and Benjamin Nusz. Solar Water Heating: A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Water and Space Heating Systems. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2006. The authors review the history of solar water and space heating systems from prehistory to the present, then presents the basics of solar water heating, including an introduction to modern solar energy systems, energy conservation and energy economics. Well-illustrated, the book is designed for a wide readership from the curious to the student or professional.

Water quality management -- United States
	201637 Gross, Joel M. and Lynn Dodge. Clean Water Act. Chicago: Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, American Bar Association, 2005. A quick reference to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, commonly known as the Clean Water Act, this book explains the statute and the 1972 Amendments that created a system of permits and regulations to govern the discharge of pollutants into the nation's waters and publicly owned treatment works. Covers NPDES permitting process, wetlands, discharge of hazardous substances, wet-weather discharges from point sources, and reducing nonpoint source pollution.

Water resources development
	130448 2006-2007 Gleick, Peter H., Heather Cooley, David Katz, Emily Lee, Jason Morrison, Meena Palaniappan, Andrea Samulon, and Gary H. Wolff. The World’s Water, 2006-2007: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006. Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant current trends worldwide. The World's Water is a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources and the political, economic, scientific, and technological issues associated with them.

	130568 Water: A Shared Responsibility. Paris: UNESCO; New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. Drawing on an extensive database, expert analysis, case studies, and hundreds of graphic elements, this volume is the most comprehensive undertaking to date of freshwater assessment, providing a mechanism for monitoring changes in the resource and its management and progress towards achieving development targets, particularly the Millennium Development Goals. Proposes a more integrated vision of water resources management to respond to changing environmental and socio-economic conditions.

	130569 Bouguerra, Mohamed Larbi. Water Under Threat. Bangkok: White Lotus; Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Pub.; Bangalore: Books for Change; Kuala Lumpur: SIRD; Cape Town: David Philip; London, New York: Zed, 2006. This richly documented book asks the major questions about the enormously important political and geostrategic issue of water. It also provides some elements of an answer. It shows that the ways in which water is used and managed raise central issues about our lifestyle, our ethics, and our relationship to nature and the biosphere. It makes the case for a society that is more economical with water, and calls for global management of water resources in a spirit of solidarity, openness, and respect for the rules of democracy.

	181610 Holland, Ann-Christin Sjölander. The Water Business: Corporations Versus People. London: Zed Books, 2005. Ann-Christian Holland visits countries as far apart as Britain and Argentina, Ghana and South Africa, to find the effect of privatization on that most basic of human needs, fresh water. As prices for water soar, massive public protests erupt in country after country. Holland interviewed senior corporate executives to get their responses, and sets out the arguments on both sides to present some of the innovative ideas and experiments for providing water as an essential service for all citizens.

Water resources management -- India
	181609 Pangare, Ganesh, Vasudha Pangare and Binayak Das. Springs of Life: India’s Water Resources. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2006. Springs of Life is an exhaustive account of water in India, and documents the natural beauty of the water bodies, the ways in which communities live and interact with water, particularly in hostile ecosystems, the resilience of people living in water stressed regions and their common sense solutions to local water problems. A readable account of the past, present and future of India's water resources, the book will be useful to anyone working to address water related issues.

Water rights -- United States -- States
	201639 Draper, Stephen E., ed. Sharing Water in Times of Scarcity: Guidelines and Procedures in the Development of Effective Agreements to Share Water Across Political Boundaries. Reston, Va.: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006. In 1995, ASCE initiated the Shared Use of Transboundary Water Resources (SUTWR) Project, whose purpose was to review existing transboundary water sharing agreements and develop guidelines and procedures for the development of agreements that would limit potential conflict while providing an appropriate balance between efficient use of the water resource for economic purposes, public health, and ecological protection. This book is part of the Task Committee Report for that project.

Watershed management -- United States -- Decision making
	152283 Sabatier, Paul A., Will Focht, Mark Lubell, Zev Trachtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz and Marty Matlock, eds. Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach to watershed management by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country.

Wetlands -- United States
	152282 Dahl, Thomas E. Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States 1998 to 2004. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2005. This is the Administration’s report to Congress that provides the nation with scientific and statistical results on progress made toward our national wetlands acreage goals. This report does not draw conclusions regarding trends in the quality of the nation’s wetlands. The Status and Trends Study collects data on wetland acreage gains and losses, as it has for the past 50 years.

SPECIAL SECTION: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute Publications
	020568 Atchison, Dustin, Ken Potter and Linda Severson. Design Guidelines for Stormwater Bioretention Facilities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2006. 051513 LePain, David L., Kenneth R. Bradbury and Michael K. Cobb. Hydrostratigraphy of West-Central Wisconsin: A New Approach to Groundwater Management. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2005. 051514 Schauer, James Jay, Jeremy Olstadt, Jon Standridge, and Sharon Kluender. A Comparison of Ten USEPA-Approved Enzyme-Based Total Coliform/E. coli Tests for Microbiological Groundwater Monitoring and Laboratory Consultation. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2005. 051515 Anderson, Mary P. and Melissa D. Masbruch. Delineation of Flow Paths, Capture Zones, and Source Areas: Allequash Basin, Vilas County, Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2005. 051516 Li, Zhaohui. Combination of Surfactant Solubilization with Permanganate Oxidation for Groundwater Remediation. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2005. 051517 Skalbeck, John D. Coupled Modeling of Gravity and Aeromagnetic Data for Analysis of the Waukesha Fault, Southeastern Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2004. 051518 DeVita, William M. Monitoring the Effectiveness of Phytoremediation and Hydrogeologic Response at an Agricultural Chemical Facility. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2004. 051519 Bahr, Jean M., Madeline B. Gotkowitz and Tara L. Root. Arsenic Contamination in Southeast Wisconsin: Sources of Arsenic and Mechanisms of Arsenic Release. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2004. 051520 Meyer, M. H., D. E. Armstrong and C. L. Babiarz. Role of the Hyporheic Zone in Methyl Mercury Production and Transport to Lake Superior. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2004. 051521 Anderson, Mary P. and Christopher S. Lowry. An Assessment of Aquifer Storage Recovery for Selected Representative Hydrogeologic Settings in Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2004. 051522 Eaton, Timothy T. What Happens When the Confined Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer in Southeastern Wisconsin Begins to Be “Dewatered”? Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2004. 051523 Cherkauer, Douglas S. Providing Communities with the Ground Water Information Needed for Comprehensive Planning. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2005. 051524 Markham, Lynn, ChinChun Tang, Bobbie Webster and Chuck Dunning. Development of Tools to Address Groundwater in Comprehensive Planning. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2005. 271366 2004-06 University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute. 2004-06 Directory of Projects and People. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2004.

SPECIAL SECTION: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute Publications

	071176 Wisconsin-Lake Michigan Restoration Priorities Workshops. Wisconsin-Lake Michigan Restoration Priorities Workshops: Proceedings, Green Bay, Wisconsin, August 17, 2004, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 18, 2004. Madison: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, 2005. 071178 University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. Sustaining Wisconsin’s Great Lakes Assets. Madison: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, 2006. 162678 University of Wisconsin Sea Grant. Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant Program: Madison, Wisconsin, August 6-11, 2006. Madison: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, 2006. 191125 Guides to Historic Shipwrecks: Wisconsin Waters of Lake Michigan. Madison: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2006. 271130 2004-06 University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. Biennial Report, 2004-2006. Madison: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, 2006. 271274 2006-08 University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. 2006-08 Directory of Projects and People. Madison: University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, 2006.

sELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS - March 2007