Falling: How Our Greatest Fear Became Our Greatest Thrill--A History Tapa dura - 2003

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2003. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York & London: W. W. Norton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0393054136 .

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003-06T. hardcover. Good. 1.1811 in x 8.6811 in x 6.4606 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; Soden tells the story of how taking a fall has evolved from an experience that the ancients used as a metaphor for damnation to one so prized that today millions crave its intense rush. We discover why falling is a universal metaphor for failure; why some people love falling while others hate it (blame it on our genes); and what this says about our tastes in food, music, politics, religion, and sex.Mixing riveting storytelling and enlightening reporting, Soden delivers a fascinating tale that explains the mass appeal of today's extreme sports and thrill-seeking technology - from roller coasters to virtual reality.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. "Beginning with the tree-climbing lessons of our earliest ancestors," through to explaining "today's extreme sports and thrill-seeking technology," the author "tells the astonishing story of how taking a fall has evolved from an experience that the ancients used as a metaphor for damnation to one so prized that today millions crave its intense rush." Red and yellow boards w/red foil spine lettering, 342 pages (including acknowledgements, notes, selected bibliography, index), illustrated. An internally tight and clean unread copy..

New York, NY: W W Norton & Company, 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs at chapter heads.

New York:: Norton,, (2003.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The "story of how gravity pioneers transformed an ancient terror - the sensation of falling - into the modern thrill that powers extreme sports, monstrous amusement rides, and a youth culture obsessed with 'getting air.' It's a hair-raising tour, with nineteenth-century parachutists plummeting to their deaths before thousands, British lords tumbling from Alpine peaks, Hollywood stuntmen dropping from biplanes to freight trains, drunken carousers outrunning police to make the world's first bungee jump, and X Games athletes such as stunt bike rider Mat Hoffman explaining their bone-breaking passion." Illustrated. Notes, bibliography, index. 342 pp.

Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Glued binding Paper over boards With dust jacket 342 p Contains: Illustrations Audience: General/trade From Booklist If you're afraid of heights, you should make sure you're firmly anchored to something before you read this book It's all about "'"gravity feats, "'" to use the author's term--an assortment of pastimes that typically require the participant to start out someplace really high and end up on terra firma, usually after free-falling or plummeting with the aid of a parachute or launching oneself into the air by means of a skateboard But this isn't just another one of those extreme-sports books, all gung-ho and testosterone and yeee-ha! It's also a sharply observed exploration of the massive appeal of these gravity feats: what makes a seemingly ordinary person risk life and limb by bungee jumping or parachuting or walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls? Not only that, the author provides a wealth of information about the origins

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. First printing. Signed by author on title page. Bumped on heel of spine, else near fine. DJ lightly rippled along rear upper flap, colour transfer to inside fold of flaps, else fine. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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