{"product_id":"table-of-contents-book-john-mcphee-9780374520083","title":"Table of Contents","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTable of Contents \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Poconos in search of a better life (Riding the Boom Extension, A Textbook Place for Bears). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn North of the C.P. Line the author introduces his friend John McPhee, a bush-pilot fish-and-game warden in northern Maine, who is also a writer. The two men met after the flying warden wrote to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ecomplaining that someone was using his name. Maine also is the milieu of Heirs of General Practice, McPhee's highly acclaimed report--virtually a book in itself--on the new medical specialty called family practice. Much of it takes place in the examining rooms of a dozen young physicans in various rural communities, where they are seen in the context of their work with a great many patients of all ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo relatively short pieces revisit the subjects of earlier McPhee books. Ice Pond demonstrates anew the innovative genius of the physicist Theodore B. Taylor, who developed a way of making and using with impressive results in the conservation of the electrical energy. Open Man describes a summer day in New Jersey in the company of Senator Bill Bradley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Minihydro, various small-scale entrepreneurs in New York State set up turbines at nineteenth-century mill sites and sell electricity to power companies. A nice little country waterfall can earn as much as two hundred dollars a year for someone with such a turbine. And, Under the Snow, McPhee Goes back into black bear's dens in Pensylvania in winter, where he becomes intoxicated with affection for some five-pound cubs. They remind him of his daughters.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49566122344721,"sku":"CIN0374520089G","price":5.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50038582444305,"sku":"CIN0374520089A","price":5.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103673151761,"sku":"CIN0374520089VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374520089.jpg?v=1750780891","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/table-of-contents-book-john-mcphee-9780374520083","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}