Earth-Shattering Events by Andrew Robinson
Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation by an earthquake. Today, around half of the world's largest cities - as many as sixty - lie in areas of major seismic activity. This book presents a scientific study of earthquakes.
'An enlightening read [that] places earthquakes into proper historical perspectiveRobinson captures the reader’s attention [and] the chronological organization of Earth-Shattering Events allows the reader to easily follow the evolution of our understanding of earthquakes' - Science
'Robinson has a talent for evoking chaos and, unavoidably, his brain-melting descriptions have a disaster-movie quality - it's hard to tear your eye away from the page ' - Daily Telegraph
'A compelling history of seismicity and society' - Nature
'A truly welcome, and refreshing, study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective' - Amos Nur, author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God
'Fascinating and fact-rich ... enlightening and intriguing ... innovative and persuasive' - The Times
'Individually, these case studies make vivid reading, and collectively they tell a fascinating story about how seismology developed as a science' - Physics World
'Delightfully un-academic but thoughtfully structured ... thought-provoking' - Geoscientist
'Robinson has a talent for evoking chaos and, unavoidably, his brain-melting descriptions have a disaster-movie quality - it's hard to tear your eye away from the page ' - Daily Telegraph
'A compelling history of seismicity and society' - Nature
'A truly welcome, and refreshing, study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective' - Amos Nur, author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God
'Fascinating and fact-rich ... enlightening and intriguing ... innovative and persuasive' - The Times
'Individually, these case studies make vivid reading, and collectively they tell a fascinating story about how seismology developed as a science' - Physics World
'Delightfully un-academic but thoughtfully structured ... thought-provoking' - Geoscientist
Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, nine of them on aspects of Indian history and culture. They include two definitive biographies: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, described by V. S. Naipaul as ‘an extraordinarily good, detailed and selfless book’, and the coauthored Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500518595 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500518599 |
| Title | Earth-Shattering Events |
| Author | Andrew Robinson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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