In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings By James C. Scott Material:Soft Cover the weirdos

the weirdos

they’ll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town

May’s story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat

they travel North-Western Europe slaying the monsters that civilians are unaware of

events eerily familiar to those who have lived there for years

In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings By James C. Scott Material:Soft Cover the weirdosJames C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scotts [prose] is dry, clear, and scalding with moral purpose.Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually)