The control of nature

About this book

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.

Subjects

• debris avalanches
• effect of human beings on
• environmental protection
• flood control
• human beings
• influence on nature
• ingénierie
• long now manual for civilization
• man
• mensch
• natur
• nature
• nature, effect of human beings on
• naturgefahr
• new york times reviewed
• relation homme-nature
• volcanic eruptions