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Dangerous Planet goes further than any other source in explaining the science behind earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, avalanches, mudslides, and other devastating natural disasters.
What brings about these deadly events, precautions made to guard against them, and ways that scientists and society deal with the aftermath are all spelled out in an easy-to-read, consistent entry format.
Approximately 180 black and white photos, illustrations, and maps help bring the text to life. A chronology of natural disasters is featured, as well as geographic and cumulative indexes and entry glossaries.
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Barry Vankleeck
reviewed Dangerous Planet The Science of Natural Disasters on August 10, 2014
Dangerous Planet The Science of Natural Disasters
Since publication, it has been discovered that Viking *did* find organics on Mars:
Oops! Another correction: He says that 4 Hydrogen atoms fuse into one Helium. It's only 2. Editor should have caught that one!
I did NOT enjoy reading about the following pseudo-scientific ABORTIONS:
* UFOs, the Roswell crash site, etc.
* Lowell and his canals on Mars
* The ALH84001 Mars rock and imagined lifeforms therein
I guess Ben Bova had nothing else to write about, so he included the bad science along with the good. Ugh.
This is almost as bad as a similar (almost identical!) book by Paul Davies:
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