About this title: The secret political history of disasters in Los Angeles, including the earthquakes of Santa Monica, the burning of Koreatown, and the invention of "man-eating" mountain lions. Davis maintains that social injustice and the perception of natural disorder are closely related, and he attempts to show that the floods, fires, and earthquakes that the city has reaped were as avoidable and unnatural as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. 0375706070 **Softcover**--Exact ISBN Match--Mild shelf wear. Has some crinkling. No personalizations, writing or marks in the text. Absolutely no spine creasing. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: F First U.S. Edition
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780805051063ISBN:0805051066
Description: Fine in J Fine jacket. First Edition. Only a bit of shelf wear to this book and some toning to the edges of its DJ's inside flaps renders it anything short of as good as new. The book is square and solidly bound. It's tight, free of markings and evidently unread. It sports a clean, unclipped dustjacket, free from any creasing. Penned by a MacArthur Fellowship winner and fully illustrated throughout with many photographs--you'll somersault with joy when this book arrives! ! ! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardbound
Publisher: Metropolitan/Henry Holt, New York
Date Published: (1998)
ISBN-13:9780805051063ISBN:0805051066
Description: x-lib. with all attendant defects o/w a good clean working copy. Clean, tight and bright. Bottom corners bumped. Very lightly edgeworn jacket taped to covers. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780375706073ISBN:0375706070
Description: New. New softcover with color illustrated cover. 484 pages. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Edging slightly bent and soiled from storage. A revisit to Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. read more
Description: Fine. 0805051066 Metropolitan hardcover w/dustjacket, 1998, 1st edition/1st printing, dj price $27.50, clean/tight, No marks/tears, heel of spine lightly bumped else...Fine/Fine (like new)...Bubble-wrapped and ed in a Box w/ confirmation. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780805051063ISBN:0805051066
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780805051063ISBN:0805051066
Description: 484p., photoillustrations in the text throughout reproduced on semicoated paperstock, first edition boards in slightly worn torn dust jacket.. read more
Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books; Random House, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780375706073ISBN:0375706070
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 484 pp., illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 21 cm. AS NEW. "Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of City of Quartz, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A. 's fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780375706073ISBN:0375706070
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1999-08-01
ISBN-13:9780375706073ISBN:0375706070
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780375706073. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, New York, NY, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780805051063ISBN:0805051066
Description: Fine/Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall 0805051066. read more
""The Case for Letting Malibu Burn" was assigned reading for one of my classes several years ago and I remember reading the printout while riding in the back of the car on the return portion of a family trip to Death Valley (to see the wildflowers).
I was fascinated. I think I may have even read some key points out loud to the rest of the family. I meant to find the book it was from and read the whole thing. ...which didn't happen. (My stack of "things to read" only ever seems to grow, no matter how much I do read.) Somehow it didn't even make it onto my list of books I want to get hold of.
This past July my buddy Julian/Mitya came up for a camping trip and the book he finished on the train was this one. And he raved, "This is excellent! You should read it!"
And I was like, "I read a chapter years ago and want to read the rest of it!"
And Julian was all, "Here! You may borrow it!"
So I did. And it was indeed excellent. And I recommend it to others.
It's a little bit dated (published in 1998) but there is a lot that's still relevant to today, especially in a "Cadillac Desert" sense. (Also recommended, by the way.) That being understanding the complex history and motivations helps in understanding how we got into such a mess.
An update on some of the chapters in the book that incorporate the past decade would be fascinating."
"Mike Davis evaluates the multivalued tensions pulling at the fabric of LA. He walks through the history of the geography, the drastic ecological shifts caused by humans and otherwise, weather patterns, suburban-urban development, economic distribution via political processes, and on top of everything reviews a brief history of "artistic" LA apocalypse literature and film. What emerges as one might suspect is the center of western decadence flooded in class inequality and a society continuing to view the context of capitalism as racial charged, while those in Anglo-centered power dynamics (and those under these rules) still ignore completely the structural fault zones. What is more striking might be the follow up to this book, what has happened in the ten years since its publication: 9/11, the dot com bust, the bush II administration, the second gulf war/iraq/afghanistan, the 2008 stock crash, the bailout, the obama election and current movements, the fires of the summer of 2007, all of these are almost predicted in his focused study of LA(if undirectly). In the wake of these things changes are bound to happen right?"
"I didn't get as much out of this one as with Davis' other books, but that's probably due to the fact a lot of it had to do with LA's whacky natural environment. That's something I have difficulty relating to on a number of levels. Some good stuff in here, though."
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