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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
Simon Winchester
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
It may seem a stretch to connect a volcanic eruption with civil and religious unrest in Indonesia today, but Simon Winchester makes a compelling case. Krakatoa tells the frightening tale of the biggest volcanic eruption in history using a blend...
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The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
David Bentley Hart
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
As news reports of the horrific tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof either of God's power or of God's nonexistence. Expanding on his short piece in the Wall Street Journal,...
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Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park
Greg Breining
Voyageur Press
Voyageur Press
Despite growing evidence of geothermic activity under America's first and foremost national park, it took geologists a long time to realize that there was actually a volcano beneath Yellowstone. And then, why couldn't they find the caldera or...
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God
Amos Nur, Dawn Burgess
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
What if Troy was not destroyed in the epic battle immortalized by Homer? What if many legendary cities of the ancient world did not meet their ends through war and conquest as archaeologists and historians believe, but in fact were laid waste by a...
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An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structure
Seth Stein, Michael Wysession
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell
An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structures is an introduction to seismology and its role in the earth sciences, and is written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. The fundamentals of seismic wave...
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The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Nicholas Shrady
Viking Adult
Viking Adult
A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755...
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