New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second edition per number line. Very good hard cover with red boards and red spine cloth with gold lettering. Dust jacket very good with some shelf & edge wear; corners bumped, especially head & heel of spine; top of front jacket flap not price clipped ($13.95); bottom of jacket front flap has triangle clipped off. * From the WorldCat Summary, ""Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty. In this exceptional book Barbara Ward (co-author with Rene Dubos of the bestselling Only One Earth) refused to see these processes as inevitable. It describes new technologies for recycling waste, for energy ... ""

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Bookseller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000066
Title: Progress for the Small Planet
Author: Ward, Barbara
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN 10: 0393012778
ISBN 13: 9780393012774
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1979
Keywords: Environment, Human ecology, Economic development, International economic relations, Conservation of natural resources
Bookseller catalogs: Economics; Sustainable Living;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
Number Line: A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
Worldcat: Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....