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Title: Encyclopedia of Volcanoes by Haraldur Sigurdsson, Bruce Houghton, Hazel Rymer, John Stix, Steve McNutt ISBN: 0-12-643140-X Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ...from a student's perspective...
Comment: I found this text to be incredibly useful, especially considering the noticable dearth of textbooks dealing with volcanoes. The encyclopedia is comprehensible, yet in depth, and covers a broad range of topics. Whenever I have a volcano question I start here first!
Rating: 5
Summary: EXCELLENT
Comment: An excellent book. Written by some of the worlds most renowed experts-one of whom I am fortunate enough to know!
The book is well worth the money as every aspect of volcanology is covered.
I would recommend this book to anyone with a serious intest in volcanology.
Rating: 4
Summary: The state of the science
Comment: Great compendium of volcanology. Especially thrilling to an older geologist to see the advances in knowledge since we got out of school; for instance, seismic tomography has mapped actual magma chambers, which were semi-mythic suppositions in my undergrad day; and lo, there is the anatomy of the very volcanoes I grew up under. The book comprises dozens of specially submitted articles by diverse international authors, so you get many perspectives, not just of different disciplines, but of authors' sense of how they relate to others.
Flawed by abundant typos. The editing of this book is a great advance over say The Solar System by the same Academic Press, which was a mangled turnip; but they still have a ways to go. It is disappointing to see major scientific works bungled by bottom line that slashes proofing. NASA is probably largely responsible for the Solar System mess (Sally Ride, take a course in remedial english!). Geologists are a lot more meticulous than astronauts. But the buck shd stop with the publisher.
So buy this book and complain to Academic Press. Buy it before it goes out of print and you have to kick yourself; it will be long before the like comes again.
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Title: Volcanoes (Firefly Guide) by Mauro Rosi, Paolo Papale, Luca Lupi, Marco Stoppato, Franco Barberi, Jay Hyams, Luca Lupl ISBN: 1552976831 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Volcano Cowboys : The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science by Dick Thompson ISBN: 0312286686 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester ISBN: 0066212855 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Chasing Lava: A Geologist's Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory by Wendell A. Duffield ISBN: 0878424628 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Volcanism by Hans-Ulrich Schmincke ISBN: 3540436502 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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