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Title: Against the Tide by Cornelia Dean ISBN: 0-231-08419-6 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A "must read" book!
Comment: After taking Geology 111 last year and then watching several videos about the destruction of our nation's beaches, this book appealed to me. Cornelia Dean does an excellent job of speaking in a language that everyone can understand. Her material is well-researched; this is very interesting and educational reading. If you live near the coast, you need to read this book and be informed about what is happening in your area.
Rating: 2
Summary: Interesting but unfair
Comment: Extremely biased toward a non-property owner viewpoint. Although the government is spending money to keep sand and retain structures, it is also acting in the interest of public safety. Also, many government agencies are limiting what property owners can do with their own money, on their own property, to save their investments. Both sides of the argument are not presented evenly.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Sad Tale of How Humans Foul Their Nests
Comment: An astounding book that will not be read by enough people. Ms. Dean provides us with a well-researched book on the physics (don't let that word throw you off; she makes it all quite understandable) of beaches, and how, in one century, we have managed to destroy them. Quite simply the ocean cannot and should not be conquered. While capable of causing intense damage to our shores, the ocean, given time, will also inevitably repair the damage it has caused. But, build houses, hotels and other structures as well as jetties, revetments, seawalls, and groins on the beaches and you will ultimately destroy them.
The truly sad part of this book is not just that we have destroyed thousands of miles of our beaches, but that we are led by ignorant, self-serving politicians and greedy commercial and private interests to build even more damaging structures on what's left of our shores. To add insult to injury the taxpayer continues to be dunned for the money to pay for continued "beach management" (read: mismanagement), and for rebuilding destroyed structures in areas where nothing should be built. I no longer have the slightest sympathy for people whose shorefront homes are destroyed by storms. Move inland where you belong.
A must read for the concerned citizen.
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Title: Living by the Rules of the Sea (Living With the Shore) by David M. Bush, Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal ISBN: 0822317966 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ocean's End: Travels through Endangered Seas by Colin Woodard ISBN: 0465015719 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Coasts : Form, Process and Evolution by Colin D. Woodroffe ISBN: 0521011833 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline: With a New Epilogue by Wallace Kaufman, Orrin H. Pilkey ISBN: 0822305747 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Corps and the Shore by Orrin H. Pilkey, Katharine L. Dixon ISBN: 1559634391 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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