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@CATTON\Overshoot@"Perhaps at no time in human history has there been a more compelling need to re-examine public assumptions and to change national expectations. Overshoot is a book that contributes to this vital task." -- Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior
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- Malthus: Add a description of this character.
- Sumner
- Odum
- Carter
- Liebig
- Hawley
- Cottrell
- Darwin
- Macmillan
- Brown
- Elton
- Steinhart
- Merton
- Dr. Goodwin
- David
- Hardin
- Thomas Jefferson
- Harper
- Clements
- Borgstrom
- W. Norton
- Reich
- Stebbins
- Houghton Mifflin
- Russell
- James Watt
- H. Freeman
- Charles
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Holt
- Roosevelt
- Ophuls
- Rinehart
- Frederick A. Praeger
- Durkheim
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- New york
- America
- United States
- Europe
- Williamsburg
- Britain
- Germany
- Japan
- Ireland
- London
- Alaska
- New Zealand
- Israel
- Cambridge
- Easter Island
- Virginia
- Africa
- Asia
- Washington
- San Francisco
- Australia
- Vietnam
- India
- Middle East
- Chicago
- New World
- Pacific
- England
- Random House
- California
First Sentence edit
On the banks of the Volga in 1921 a refugee community was visited by an American newspaper correspondent who had come to write about the Russian famine.
Authors & Contributors edit
- William Robert Catton (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 303.4
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