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Author | : William L. Heath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Trolls |
ISBN | : 9780825300080 |
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When a troll, a throwback to prehistoric times, gives the O'Grady family a lot of misery, a peculiar man appears and vows to rid the family of the troll.
Author | : Susan Elizabeth Hough |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400884446 |
Download Richter's Scale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, his academic career, and the history of seismology. Among his colleagues Richter was known as intensely private, passionately interested in earthquakes, and iconoclastic. He was an avid nudist, seismologists tell each other with a grin; he dabbled in poetry. He was a publicity hound, some suggest, and more famous than he deserved to be. But even his closest associates were unaware that he struggled to reconcile an intense and abiding need for artistic expression with his scientific interests, or that his apparently strained relationship with his wife was more unconventional but also stronger than they knew. Moreover, they never realized that his well-known foibles might even have been the consequence of a profound neurological disorder. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology. In doing so, she illuminates the world of earth science for the lay reader, much as Sylvia Nasar brought the world of mathematics alive in A Beautiful Mind.
Author | : Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307424642 |
Download After the Quake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles. An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package— and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who views himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. The six stories in this collection come from the deep and mysterious place where the human meets the inhuman—and are further proof that Murakami is one of the most visionary writers at work today.
Author | : Cal Orey |
Publisher | : Sentient Publications |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1591810361 |
Download The Man who Predicts Earthquakes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Meet Jim Berkland, a California geologist whose forecast of the famous October 17, 1989 World Series Quake that rumbled through the San Francisco Bay Area was right on the money. This is the first book to document a geologist's uncanny ability to foretell earthquakes around the world. This facinating read includes stories of earthquake survivors, a wealth of details about seismic activity in earthquake prone regions around the world.
Author | : Jon Mooallem |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525509917 |
Download This is Chance! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Good Friday, 1964, Anchorage, Alaska earthquake, and newscaster Genie Chance remaining on-air to broadcast events.
Author | : Elizabeth Laird |
Publisher | : Pearson UK |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : 1292311835 |
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Author | : Jonathan Todd Hancock |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2021-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469662191 |
Download Convulsed States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a broad cast of thinkers struggled to explain these seemingly unprecedented natural phenomena. They summoned a range of traditions of inquiry into the natural world and drew connections among signs of environmental, spiritual, and political disorder on the cusp of the War of 1812. Drawn from extensive archival research, Convulsed States probes their interpretations to offer insights into revivalism, nation remaking, and the relationship between religious and political authority across Native nations and the United States in the early nineteenth century. With a compelling narrative and rigorous comparative analysis, Jonathan Todd Hancock uses the earthquakes to bridge historical fields and shed new light on this pivotal era of nation remaking. Through varied peoples' efforts to come to grips with the New Madrid earthquakes, Hancock reframes early nineteenth-century North America as a site where all of its inhabitants wrestled with fundamental human questions amid prophecies, political reinventions, and war.
Author | : Lauren Tarshis |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545392616 |
Download I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (I Survived #5) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The terrifying details of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake jump off the page!Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible.But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally -- and he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground. Does Leo have what it takes to survive this devastating disaster?The I SURVIVED series continues with another thrilling story of a boy caught in one of history's most terrifying disasters!
Author | : Deborah R. Coen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226111814 |
Download The Earthquake Observers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences.
Author | : Lois Sepahban |
Publisher | : Cherry Lake |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1631377191 |
Download The Science of an Earthquake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book discusses the science behind earthquakes and their effects. The chapters examine notable earthquakes in history, explain why earthquakes occur, and show how scientists and engineers are working to understand earthquakes and build damage-resistant structures. Diagrams, charts, and photos provide opportunities to evaluate and understand the scientific concepts involved.