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Natural Disasters | 
| Author: Patrick Leon Abbott
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 679920
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0073040770
Dewey Decimal Number: 904
EAN: 9780073040776
ASIN: 0073040770
Publication Date: May 4, 2005
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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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 too much time on tectonics November 9, 2008
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.
 GEO Book March 16, 2006
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.
Abbott explains how Natural Disasters occur September 19, 2005
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although Abbott could have done a better job of simplifying some of his explainations, he does a great job of breaking down the formation of Natural Disasters in easy to understand steps. He also provides briefings on real life natural disaster occurances.
Natural Disasters May 7, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I used this book for one of my Earth and Ocean Science courses at the University of British Columbia. Although I enjoyed the many good examples, I found that the text did not have a very good flow to it. I found some of it to be choppy, and some of the sentences to be quite unclear. I agree, the examples are interesting, but it seems like the text relies on those examples to be interesting. I think a lot of processes could have been explained better, as I thought the point from class notes I received from my professors did a lot better than the text in helping me understand certain processes. I definetely agree it's a beginner text though as the examples give a good indication that natural disasters only occur because humans have inhabited locations that often times threaten lives.
Natural Disasters makes geology interesting! October 28, 1999
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!
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