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Earth Shock: Climate Complexity and the Force of Nature
by Robinson, Andrew
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0500277389
- ISBN 13
- 9780500277386
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Thames & Hudson, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, blue paper covered boards with silver titles and cover decoration and silver spine titles. 304 pp. including index, references, further readings and chronology. Very generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, charts, diagrams, maps etc. A survey of the whole history of man and nature in conflict when natural disasters of all kinds occur with descriptions of the geological and meteorological forces involved. A very tight, fresh, clean, unmarked volume with sparkling silver titles and spine titles, in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket with one very closed 1/4" tear at upper edge (virtually invisible). Fine in very near fine dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 08203
- Title
- Earth Shock: Climate Complexity and the Force of Nature
- Author
- Robinson, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0500277389
- ISBN 13
- 9780500277386
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- GEOPHYSICS, SEISMOLOGY, WEATHER, METEROROLOGY, EARTH, SCIENCE, GLOBAL, WARMING, CLIMATE, CHANGE, VULCANOLOGY, DISASTER, ROBINSON, HISTORY, HISTORICAL, HURRICANES, VOLCANOES, VOLCANO, TORNADO, TORNADOES, STORM, WIND, RAIN, FORCES, EARTHQUAKE, AVALANCHE, FL
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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