Natural Disasters | 
 enlarge | Author: Patrick Leon Abbott
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
Buy Used: $68.00
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 6521
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Pages: 528
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 007329232X
Dewey Decimal Number: 551
EAN: 9780073292328
Publication Date: March 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Paperback, 6th edition. Slight wear on corners and edges but still in great condition, with no writing or highlighting on the pages.
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Product Description
This book focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. It is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works. Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: * energy sources underlying disasters * plate tectonics and climate change * earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere * significance of geologic time * complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously * detailed and readable case studies.
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 excellent book June 15, 1998
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
you will learn everthing from tornadoes to earthquakes, this book will take you to an exciting adventure into natural disasters.
 A great book for beginners interested in this topic!!! January 11, 1999
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I just finished taking a course at Florida International University having to do with natural disasters and this book was the required text. I found the book very interesting and informative. The different forms of natural disasters were seperated by chapters and were very well explained. I found it very easy to learn about natural disasters using this book.
Natural Disasters makes geology interesting! October 28, 1999
Fred Schroyer (Waynesburg, PA USA)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a developer of geology and earth science college textbooks for major publishers, I've worked with a lot of excellent books. Patrick Abbott's Natural Disasters, second edition, is one of the most interesting, readable, informative, and engaging books available. It doesn't have all the four-color diagrams and photos, and doesn't need them. The book tells many fascinating stories that engage students (e.g., the Lisbon earthquake of 1755), relates these natural events to humanity, and offers outstanding short summaries of geologic phenomena and events (e.g., the K-T extinction). This is one of the few books I keep on my desk to illustrate geologic events and principles for friends and coworkers. Highly recommended!
GEO Book March 16, 2006
L. Whitehead
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book has an excellent number of graphs and pictures and makes it fairly easy to absorb information through self-learning. Great tool with lectures. Sometimes a bit of a drag on the boredom scale depending upon the topic.
 too much time on tectonics November 9, 2008
phocas (Gladstone, MO, USA)
This is not too bad of a book, but the author seems to be really struggling for content along the way. He spends entirely too much time droning on about plate tectonics and earthquakes, when he could have approached a broader range of topics. The title should probably be Geophysical Natural Disasters. There is no coverage of naturally occuring biological disasters at all. This is purely an overview of geomorphology.
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