Product Description: The environmental history of the past three decades has heightened awareness that the volume of water available in the Nile Basin is not sufficient to meet reliably the current levels of water demand, quite apart from rapidly growing needs...read more

Product Description: Professor Allan's important new book aims to remove much of the confusion surrounding the issue of water in the Middle East. He argues that it is at the global level that explanation is to be found on why economies operate as they do and why water policies are as they are, and that the good news lies in the international economy where resources can be multiplied and exchanged - at least for those that have eyes to see...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Water is a key issue on the agenda of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours. The circumstances in which Gaza gained its autonomy leaves it in a disadvantageous position with respect to water, and a deal on the hotly contested issue of the West Bank aquifers will be a protracted process...read more

Product Description: Water is one of the most important and potentially explosive issues in modern Middle East politics. It is an issue arguably far more significant to the region than oil. It has dogged relations between Middle East societies for centuries if not millennia and will continue to do so long after oil has ceased to hold sway...read more

An illustrated look at the major deserts of the world discusses temperatures, the remarkable adaptations of animals to inhospitable conditions, desert moss, the desert peoples, and more and features an atlas section and photographs.