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The 100 Greatest Disasters of All Timeby Stephen J. SpignesiISBN 0806523417 (0-8065-2341-7)
Hardcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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431: Images of the 1994 Los Angeles EarthquakeISBN 1883792037 (1-883792-03-7)
Softcover, Los Angeles Times
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After the Quakeby Haruki Murakami, Jay RubinISBN 0375713271 (0-375-71327-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Quake'Book summary:Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in After the Quake are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of Jules and Jim. There's a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that's never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There's no turning back for his people; there's only before and after the quake. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Black Sun Risingby C. S. FriedmanISBN 0756403146 (0-7564-0314-6)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Sun Rising'Book summary:With her highly acclaimed novels In Conquest Born and The Madness Season, C.S. Friedman acquired a well-deserved reputation for exploring science fiction's most challenging themes. Now she turns her talent to fantasy in a novel that boldly and provocatively examines the ever-mutable nature of evil and mortality. [via]
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A Crack In The Edge Of The World: America And The Great California Earthquake Of 1906by Simon WinchesterISBN 0060572000 (0-06-057200-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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Though the epicenter of this marvelously constructed book is San Francisco, Winchester covers much more than just the disaster. He discusses how this particular quake led to greater scientific study of quakes in an attempt to understand the movements of the earth. Trained at Oxford University as a geologist, Winchester is well qualified to discuss the subject, and he clearly explains plate tectonics theory (first introduced in 1968) and the creation of the San Andreas Fault, along with the geologic exploration of the American West in the late 19th century and the evolution of technology used to measure and predict earthquakes. He also covers the social and political shifts caused by the disaster, such as the way that Pentecostalists viewed the quake as "a message of divine approval" and used it to recruit new members into the church, and the rise in the local Chinese population. With many records destroyed in the fire, there was no way to distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants, and thus many more Chinese were granted citizenship than would have otherwise been. Filled with eyewitness accounts, vivid descriptions, crisp prose, and many delightful meanderings, A Crack in the Edge of the World is a thoroughly absorbing tale. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Danger! Earthquakesby Seymour SimonISBN 1587171406 (1-58717-140-6)
Softcover, Seastar Books
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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fateby Marc ReisnerISBN 0142003832 (0-14-200383-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Writing with his signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Reisner leads us through Californias improbable history and rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the achievement of this, the last great desert civilization, hinges on Californias denial of its own inescapable fate. Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, mere prologues to a future cataclysm that will result in destruction of such magnitude that the only recourse will be to rebuild from the ground up. Reisner concludes A Dangerous Place with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of such a disaster and its horrifying aftereffects. [via]More editions of A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate:
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Darkest Hours: A Narrative Encyclopedia of Worldwide Disasters from Ancient Times to the Presentby Jay Robert NashISBN 0882291408 (0-88229-140-8)
Hardcover, Burnham Inc Pub
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Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire or 1906by Gladys Hansen, Emmet Condon, David FowlerISBN 0918684331 (0-918684-33-1)
Hardcover, Cameron & Co
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Destruction at Noondayby Bill RobinsonISBN 092448621X (0-924486-21-X)
Hardcover, Sheridan House Inc
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Devastation!: The World's Worst Natural Disastersby Lesley NewsonISBN 0789435187 (0-7894-3518-7)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Disaster!by Dan KurzmanISBN 0060084324 (0-06-008432-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Disaster!: Catastrophes That Shook the Worldby Richard Bonson, Richard PlattISBN 0789420341 (0-7894-2034-1)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Discovering Earthquakes and Volcanoesby Laura Damon, John R. JonesISBN 0816717583 (0-8167-1758-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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Dragonwingsby Laurence YepISBN 1557361681 (1-55736-168-1)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonwings'Book summary:A Chinese immigrant and his son build a flying machine in "an unusual historical novel, unique in its perspective of the Chinese in America and its portrayal of early 20th century San Francisco, including the Earthquake, from an immigrant's viewpoint".--School Library Journal. 1976 Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Books of 1971-1975; 1976 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book; New York Times Outstanding Children's Books 1975; School Library Journal Best of the Best 1966-1978; Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC); 1976 IRA Children's Book Award; IRA/CBC Children's Choices for 1976. [via]
The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned: 100th Anniversary Edition A Photographic Record of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake And Fireby William BronsonISBN 0811850471 (0-8118-5047-1)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Earth Shook, the Sky Burned: A Photographic Record of the 1996 San Francisco Earthquake and Fireby William BronsonISBN 0811816672 (0-8118-1667-2)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Earth Shook, the Sky Burned/a Moving Record of America's Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco, April 18, 1906by William BronsonISBN 0877013896 (0-87701-389-6)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Earthquakeby Brian KnappISBN 0811423751 (0-8114-2375-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Raintree
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Earthquake 7.1: San Francisco Bay Area, October 17, 1989by UpiISBN 1559881208 (1-55988-120-8)
Softcover, Amer Products Corp
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Earthquake Alertby Shilpa Mehta-JonesISBN 077871604X (0-7787-1604-X)
Softcover, Crabtree Pub Co
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Earthquake Countryby Robert L. IacopiISBN 0376061421 (0-376-06142-1)
Hardcover, Lane Books
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Earthquake Country : How, Why and Where Earthquakes Strike in Californiaby Robert L. IacopiISBN 1555610862 (1-55561-086-2)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Earthquake in the Early Morningby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 067989070X (0-679-89070-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earthquake in the Early Morning'Book summary:The year is 1906, the place is San Francisco. Annie and her brother, Jack, have just traveled here in their magic tree house, on a mission from Morgan le Fay, the mysterious magical librarian from King Arthur's time. In an effort to save Camelot, the children have already found three special kinds of writing for Morgan's library: something to follow (Civil War on Sunday), something to send (Revolutionary War on Wednesday), and something to learn (Twister on Tuesday). Now it's time to find "something to lend." It's a quiet, peaceful morning in San Francisco, and Annie is eager to start exploring. So eager, in fact, that she pulls Jack away from his research just before he would have learned a very important piece of information... All too soon, the siblings figure it out for themselves: they have arrived in this lovely city a moment before one of the biggest earthquakes the U.S. has ever known shakes the Bay Area to pieces! Stunned, Jack and Annie wander the streets, but quickly find a purpose. Lots of people need help transporting goods to safety, and many more are left without any idea where to go or what to do. But what about their mission? Will the kids find something to lend before the entire city goes up in flames?
Mary Pope Osborne's tremendously popular Magic Tree House series offers young readers a chance to immerse themselves in spellbinding adventures even as they learn about history. The terrible San Francisco earthquake is described with great historical accuracy, but with admirable age-appropriateness. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Earthquake : San Francisco, 1906by Kathleen Duey, Karen A. BaleISBN 0689813082 (0-689-81308-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Earthquake That Never Went Awayby David StewartISBN 0934426546 (0-934426-54-6)
Softcover, Gutenberg Richter Pubns
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Earthquake: The World Reactsby Paul BennettISBN 1887068449 (1-887068-44-9)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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Earthquakesby Seymour SimonISBN 0060877154 (0-06-087715-4)
Softcover, Collins Lifestyle
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Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Earthquakes: ISBN 0060877146 (0-06-087714-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Earthquakes: ISBN 0688096344 (0-688-09634-4)
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Earthquakesby Franklyn M. Branley, Megan LloydISBN 0064451887 (0-06-445188-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Earthquakesby Bruce A. BoltISBN 0716756188 (0-7167-5618-8)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Earthquakes and Geological Discoveryby Bruce A. BoltISBN 0716750406 (0-7167-5040-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Earthquakes and Volcanoesby Lin SutherlandISBN 1575843749 (1-57584-374-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Earthquakes and Volcanoesby Fiona Watt, Chris Shields, Jeremy GowerISBN 0746009844 (0-7460-0984-4)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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-- Full color diagrams, illustrations and photographs
-- Hands-on activities for real science experience [via]
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Earthquakes and Volcanoesby Ruth DeeryISBN 0866532722 (0-86653-272-2)
Softcover, Good Apple
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Earthshaking Science: What We Know (And Don't Know) About Earthquakesby Susan Elizabeth HoughISBN 0691118191 (0-691-11819-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disasterby Mike DavisISBN 0805051066 (0-8050-5106-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster'Book summary:The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes, "The destructive February 1992, January 1993, and January 1995 floods ($500 million in damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts. Monolithic public works have been substituted for regional planning and a responsible land ethic. As a result, Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets."
As in City of Quartz, his earlier book about Los Angeles, Davis reveals the deeper ideological narratives behind historical events. Whether he's explaining the motivations behind the persistent refusal of civic leaders to admit that a tornado alley runs down the middle of the region, from Long Beach to Pasadena, or discussing, as one chapter refers to it, "the case for letting Malibu burn," he outlines his arguments with a fascinating amount of detail and a subtle sense of irony. There are wonderful chapters here, such as "Maneaters of the Sierra Madre," a zoology of the wild beasts Angelenos fear, including mountain lions that descend from the hills to eat joggers and small children, swarms of Africanized killer bees making their way across the deserts, and El Chupacabra, the "goat-sucking vampire" that joined L.A.'s roster of faddish icons in 1996.
Although this book is specifically about Los Angeles, its lessons about the relationship between urban developments and natural ecosystems and about the dangerous influence of class politics on environmental safety policy are applicable to any city. Anyone with a serious interest in natural history or urban policy should make a point of reading this book. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Exploring Natural Disastersby Stella SandsISBN 1561564877 (1-56156-487-7)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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Forces of Nature: The awesome power of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tornadoesby Catherine O'Neill GraceISBN 0792263286 (0-7922-6328-6)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books
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Goodbye Californiaby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0891906711 (0-89190-671-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Ground Beneath Her Feetby Salman RushdieISBN 0805053085 (0-8050-5308-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel'Book summary:Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece. At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. And lives to tell the tale. Around these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's most gripping novel and his boldest imaginative act, a vision of our shaken, mutating times, an engagement with the whole of what is and what might be, an account of the intimate, flawed encounter between the East and the West, a brilliant remaking of the myth of Orpheus, a novel of high (and low) comedy, high (and low) passions, high (and low) culture. It is a tale of love, death, and rock 'n' roll. [via]
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Hammer of Edenby Ken FollettISBN 0449004589 (0-449-00458-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The Worldby Francis WheenISBN 158648348X (1-58648-348-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World'Book summary:In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.[via]
What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World:
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I Can Read about Earthquakes and Volcanoesby Deborah Merrians, Greg HarrisISBN 0816736499 (0-8167-3649-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Senseby Francis WheenISBN 1586482475 (1-58648-247-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense:
If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquakeby Ellen Levine, Pat Grant PorterISBN 059045157X (0-590-45157-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Incredible Earthby N.J. CliffordISBN 0789410133 (0-7894-1013-3)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883by Simon WinchesterISBN 0786257296 (0-7862-5729-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883'Book summary:In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian island of Krakatoa, which resulted in the deaths of 36,000 people and sent shock-waves around the world. But what at the time was a mysterious, almost supernatural phenomenon has become, under the precepts of the contemporary science of plate tectonics, explicable if no less tragic. Winchester veers between eyewitness accounts by survivors and the limited scientific measurements of the time in an attempt to describe the indescribable. The event "is still said to be the most violent explosion ever recorded and experienced by modern man," he writes. "Six cubic miles of rock had been blasted out of existence, had been turned into pumice and ash and uncountable billions of particles of dust." Yet words and numbers can barely hint at the scale of the calamity, which resulted in tsunamis that washed whole villages into the ocean and forever changed the very topography of the area. The author also explores the social and cultural topography, noting, "Orthodox Islam, its revival in part triggered by tragic events such as the great cataclysm, was totally transformed in Java during the nineteenth century, with fundamentalism, militancy, and profound hostility to non-Muslims its watchwords." At times Winchester seems to overstate his case, and the link he finds between Krakatoa and the rise of anti-Western sentiment in the Islamic world isnt especially convincing. But, by weaving together the disaster with science, communications, politics, religion, and economics, he has come up with a comprehensive and often fascinating glimpse into the way the world, and our perception of it, can change in an instant. --Shawn Conner [via]
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Magnitude 8 : Earthquakes and Life along the San Andreas Faultby Philip L. FradkinISBN 0805046968 (0-8050-4696-8)
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 1568956940 (1-56895-694-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man in Full'Book summary:Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?
On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.
Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life:
In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus [via]More editions of A Man in Full:
Miracle Planetby Bruce Brown, Lane MorganISBN 0831759992 (0-8317-5999-2)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faithby David L. UlinISBN 0143035258 (0-14-303525-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nature on the Rampageby Harm J. De BlijISBN 0895990490 (0-89599-049-0)
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Nature on the Rampage: Our Violent Earthby National Geographic Society (U.S.)ISBN 0870445871 (0-87044-587-1)
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The New Madrid Earthquakesby James L. PenickISBN 0826203442 (0-8262-0344-2)
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Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquakeby Elena Poniatowska, Arthur Schmidt, Aurora Camacho De SchmidtISBN 1566393450 (1-56639-345-0)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Our Violent Earthby James A. Cox, Catherine O'Neill, Robin Darcey DennisISBN 0870443836 (0-87044-383-6)
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Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country: How to Save Your Home and Lifeby Peter I. YanevISBN 0877017719 (0-87701-771-9)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Powers of Natureby National Geographic Society EditorsISBN 0870442392 (0-87044-239-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Powers of Nature'Book summary:In vividly illustrated pages, this book brings you the latest information on nature's forces and their effects, and on our continuing efforts to understand the powers that shape our world. Seeking answers to these and other questions, the authors meet and talk with experts in the fields of climatology, volcanology, hydrology, research centers, where the scientists strive to understand the nature of earth's unruly forces. [via]
Richter 10by Arthur C. Clarke, Mike McQuayISBN 0786206942 (0-7862-0694-2)
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The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire: A Complete and Accurate Account of the Fearful Disaster Which Visited the Great City and the Pacific Coast, the Reign of Panic and Lawlessness, theby Charles MorrisISBN 0806509848 (0-8065-0984-8)
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The San Francisco Century: A City Rises From The Ruins Of The 1906 Earthquake And Fireby Carl Nolte, San Francisco ChronicleISBN 0976088088 (0-9760880-8-8)
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The San Francisco Earthquakeby Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan WittsISBN 081281360X (0-8128-1360-X)
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San Francisco Earthquake,1906by Kathleen DueyISBN 0671036025 (0-671-03602-5)
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San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Firesby Dennis SmithISBN 0452287596 (0-452-28759-6)
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Saving Cascadiaby John J. NanceISBN 0743476611 (0-7434-7661-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saving Cascadia'Book summary:A few hundred years ago, Cascadia Island didn't even exist. Like the Washington seacoast, it was rock submerged beneath the Pacific. A massive earthquake changed that, exploding the rock upward, making it land - unstable land, according to seismologist Dr. Doug Lam. Lam has spent years researching the Cascadia Subduction Zone. He published a theory that the unrelieved tectonic strain beneath the idyllic landscape of Cascadia Island could be triggered with modern construction processes - with catastrophic results. The paper was disregarded, even ridiculed, by his peers and by mega wealthy developer Mick Walker, who stands to earn millions from the construction of a luxury resort on Cascadia. The elegant casino, hotel, and convention center will reap millions for him even if the tiny island only lasts for a short time... When a series of earthquakes begins to shake the Northwest Corridor, Doug's worst fears are confirmed. In an attempt to convince Walker to evacuate Cascadia immediately, Doug hurries to join guests arriving for the resort's grand opening. As the tremors wreak havoc across the Northwest coastal area, the military is left with too few resources to assist the people on Cascadia. Convinced that the island will be in ruins within hours, Doug reluctantly calls upon his girlfriend, Jennifer Lindstrom, president of Nightingale Aviation - a major medical transport helicopter company - for help. With snow falling, visibility dropping, and winds increasing, Doug embarks on an impossible mission with Jennifer and Nightingale's helicopters to evacuate over three hundred people, while smaller earthquakes continue to herald the approach of a catastrophic tsunami. John J. Nance hurtles readers along a nail-biting quest to rescue hundreds of stranded vacationers and resort staff. Meticulously researched, and with the signature authenticity only a veteran pilot could provide, Saving Cascadia is a hair-raising thriller of awesome magnitude. [via]
Stalking the Wild Tabooby Garret HardinISBN 0913232033 (0-913232-03-3)
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Volcano and Earthquakeby Susanna Van RoseISBN 0756607345 (0-7566-0734-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Volcano and Earthquake'Book summary:New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text!
Here is an exciting and informative guide to the violent eruptions and tremors that shape our planet. Superb color photographs of lava flows and clouds of ash, plus specially built 3-D models, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of volcanoes and earthquakes, from the forces that drive them to the devastation they cause. See streams of red-hot lava, the earliest seismographs, rocks that float in water, the bodies of people killed by the great eruption of Vesuvius, and pools of bubbling mud. Learn how animals can detect earthquakes before people, what causes a fire fountain, how buildings are made to withstand earthquakes, where to hide during an earthquake, and why the earth shakes. Discover how the Mercalli scale works, how new islands are formed, why the sands of Hawaii are black, how volcanoes affect the ozone layer, what makes magma explode, what a pyrolcastic flow is, and much, much more! [via]
Volcanoesby Franklyn M. Branley, Marc SimontISBN 0690044518 (0-690-04451-8)
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Volcanoes and Earthquakesby Zuza Vrbova, Michael RoffeISBN 0816719780 (0-8167-1978-0)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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When The Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, And The New Madrid Earthquakesby Jay FeldmanISBN 0743242785 (0-7432-4278-5)
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UN Homme, UN Vraiby Tom WolfeISBN 2266100114 (2-266-10011-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'UN Homme, UN Vrai'Book summary:1013pages. poche. broché. Charlie Croker, richissime promoteur de soixante ans, a bâti son immense empire à Atlanta. Il est le symbole de l'Amérique blanche triomphante -jusqu'à ce qu'un placement immobilier hasardeux le menace de banqueroute. Fareek Fanon, célèbre footballeur noir tout droit sorti du ghetto d'Atlanta, est accusé de viol par une riche et influente Blanche. Les émeutes raciales menacent la ville: Atlanta la Blanche, ville de pouvoir et d'argent, s'oppose à Atlanta la Noire. Charlie Croker, ancien champion universitaire de football, ne pourrait-il pas réconcilier les deux partis ? La confrontation entre ces deux univers, orchestrée par un jeune et brillant avocat de la bourgeoisie noire, dévoile une Amérique cosmopolite, gangrenée par le racisme et la violence, dans laquelle se joue une inoubliable comédie humaine. [via]
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Erdbeben in Der Schweizby Markus Weidmann, Schweizerischer ErdbebendienstISBN 3856372717 (3-85637-271-7)
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Nada, Nadie / Nothing, No One: Las voces del temblor / The Voices of the Tremorby Elena PoniatowskaISBN 9684111738 (968-411-173-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Era S.A. De C.V.
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