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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 | : Elizabeth Laird |
Publisher | : Pearson UK |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : 1292311835 |
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Author | : Jon Mooallem |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525509925 |
Download This Is Chance! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together “A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal “A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year) In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis—the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped, night fell and Anchorage went dark. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. Slowly, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a familiar woman’s voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. Genie Chance was a part-time radio reporter and working mother who would play an unlikely role in the wake of the disaster, helping to put her fractured community back together. Her tireless broadcasts over the next three days would transform her into a legendary figure in Alaska and bring her fame worldwide—but only briefly. That Easter weekend in Anchorage, Genie and a cast of endearingly eccentric characters—from a mountaineering psychologist to the local community theater group staging Our Town—were thrown into a jumbled world they could not recognize. Together, they would make a home in it again. Drawing on thousands of pages of unpublished documents, interviews with survivors, and original broadcast recordings, This Is Chance! is the hopeful, gorgeously told story of a single catastrophic weekend and proof of our collective strength in a turbulent world. There are moments when reality instantly changes—when the life we assume is stable gets upended by pure chance. This Is Chance! is an electrifying and lavishly empathetic portrayal of one community rising above the randomness, a real-life fable of human connection withstanding chaos.
Author | : Lois Sepahban |
Publisher | : Cherry Lake |
Total Pages | : 36 |
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.
Author | : Patrick Perish |
Publisher | : Bellwether Media |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1681033135 |
Download Survive an Earthquake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Scientists estimate that about 500,000 detectable earthquakes shake the earth each year. But the majority of them go unnoticed, as most register at the bottom of the 8.0+ magnitude scale. In this hi-lo title, kids will learn how to react to the dangerous quakes that can be felt.
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 | : Paul Farmer |
Publisher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610390989 |
Download Haiti After the Earthquake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The celebrated physician and anthropologist offers a vivid on-the-ground account of the relief effort in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake—and issues a powerful call to action. Reprint.