{"product_id":"when-the-waters-rose-hardcover","title":"When The Waters Rose - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNiles E. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere are stories humanity tells to entertain, and stories humanity tells to \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eremember\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlood stories belong to the second kind.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey appear in civilizations that never met, spoken in languages that never touched, preserved by peoples separated by oceans and centuries. They are told not as dreams, but as events. Not as speculation, but as memory. Each culture insists, in its own way: this happened before.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eModern readers often approach these accounts cautiously. We ask whether they are symbolic or literal, psychological or geological, moral or mythical. Those questions are not wrong but they are incomplete. What matters first is not how the flood stories are true, but why they endure.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eBecause they do.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivilizations forget kings. They forget borders. They forget wars. Yet they remember floods.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcross these stories, humanity learns the same lessons repeatedly: that excess carries consequence, that preparation matters more than power, that survival is responsibility, not victory. The flood is never the end of the world it is the end of a way of living that could not sustain itself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book does not ask the reader to believe in one god, one doctrine, or one interpretation. It asks only that we take seriously the possibility that ancient people preserved these stories because they recognized something essential about the fragility of civilization and about themselves.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe waters rise when systems fail.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd every age believes it is immune until it isn't.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e-Niles Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 42\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 10 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525031825657,"sku":"9798234137326","price":35.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/HJDNWFG9sV9798234137326.webp?v=1790196708","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/when-the-waters-rose-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}