Control of nature / John McPhee

By:

McPHEE, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.Description: 272p. : ill. ; 21cmISBN:

0-374-52259-6

Subject(s):

Environmental protection. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Debris avalanches -- California -- Los Angeles

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 363.7 MCP

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	CUoM Library General Stacks	Social Problems	363.7 MCP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	00007711

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.

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