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Science 3 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5433, p. 1497
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5433.1497
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EARTH SCIENCES:
A Line in the Sand

A review by Tom Drake

Against the Tide The Battle for America's Beaches
Cornelia Dean
Columbia University Press, New York, 1999. 295 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-231-08418-8.

Dean weaves explanations of coastal ecology and the physics of the nearshore into her discussions of numerous attempts to protect coastal construction, many of which have led to the loss of valuable beaches.
The author is in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, 1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, USA. E-mail: drake{at}ncsu.edu

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