false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277m/19898.jpg 19898 3 As an explainer, John McPhee is a national treasure. The longtime "New Yorker" staff writer has taken us inside the world of art museums, environmental groups, fruit markets, airship factories, basketball courts, and atomic-bomb labs the world over. Here he covers the complex geological history of California, the source of much news today. As Californians daily await the inevitable great earthquake that will send their cities tumbling down like so many matchsticks, McPhee piles fact on luminous fact, wrestling raw data into a beautifully written narrative that gainsays a sedimentologist's warning: "You can't cope with this in an organized way," he told McPhee, "because the rocks aren't organized." As always, McPhee enlarges our understanding of the strange, making it familiar--and endlessly interesting. 26821 1992 Assembling California total:227|5:85|4:95|3:37|2:9|1:1| 227 935 343 21 19898 0374523932 9780374523930 224 20 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277m/19898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19898.Assembling_California 4 0 false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 14:23:23 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 14:31:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 19898 0374523932 9780374523930 224 20 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277m/19898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19898.Assembling_California 5 1 false Fri Jul 11 11:20:46 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 09:15:00 -0700 2008 19898 0374523932 9780374523930 224 20 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277m/19898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19898.Assembling_California 4 0 false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 06:59:41 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 07:06:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 19898 0374523932 9780374523930 224 20 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277m/19898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19898.Assembling_California 5 0 false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 04:52:47 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 09:27:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 19898 0374523932 9780374523930 224 20 4.12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277m/19898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19898.Assembling_California 3 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 28 08:11:34 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 19 18:54:25 -0700 2007
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