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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: St Vincent de Paul of Lane County, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. PAGE EDGES HAVE STAINS ON THEM BUT BOOK REMAINS IN GOOD READABLE CONDITION. hardcover This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Cathy's Half Price Books, Havertown, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Shows some light wear from age and use. Interior is good with sound binding and no marks, damage or labels. We Ship Daily! Satisfaction Guaranteed!.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.35.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: arcfoundationthriftstore, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. SUN DAMAGE on DJ minimal wear on edges and corners small tear on first page stains on edges of pages stains on DJYour purchase benefits those with developmental disabilities to live a better quality of life.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control.In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is.In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers.Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris.Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Later prt. edition. 8vo, 272 pp.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. 5th ptg.; 272 pages; brown cloth over boards with black il on front, gilt lettering on spine; white dust jacket with color ils; very slight lean to spine. Hardcover (dj).
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Solr Books, Skokie, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: VeryGood.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th printing. Full cloth binding. Unmarked copy with faint scattered foxing to page edges. 272pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. (1989), 272pp, illus., light shelfwear to cover, slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.