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Natural Disasters, 9th edition, updates text, tables and figures; adds new photos; places more emphasis on processes and less on case histories. Chapter 1 now includes a brief section on disease pandemics. Chapter 13 on floods is rewritten. A brief, new Chapter 16 pulls together coastal processes and adds rip currents and tidal bores. Chapter 18 on mass extinctions (Great Dyings) is updated and available for inclusion in the textbook. Significant events added include the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami; the record-setting 2011 U.S. tornado year; and the felony conviction of seven Italian scientists for not giving better prediction of the L'Aquila earthquake. The book retains its focus on Earth's natural processes and the disasters that occur when the Earth concentrates its energy and releases it, causing death and destruction.
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 9 edition (February 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0078022878
ISBN-13: 978-0078022876
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.5 x 11 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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You can buy the 7th edition for way cheaper and its nearly identical. Had no problems in class using the 7th edition
I really enjoyed reading this book. The only thing that I could say is some of the illustrations are very childish. For example, I noticed a very basic illustration of a volcano. It was definitely not a college level illustration and if you don't know the basics of how a volcano works, you shouldn't be in college. All in all, a good read and a good amount of statistics as it pertains to disasters across the earth.
Book was described as being in good condition. The back cover and the last few pages have a dime sized hole through them and it it pretty beat up. Book was not as described, however, because I need it for assignments I have no choice but to keep it. Poor service on their part, this particular book should have been discounted much more.
The first hint this is a crappy book is a hundred photos of the author dressed in various outfits immediately inside the cover. Abbott loves the sound of his own voice and his oversized ego shows through in every paragraph of text. Thank goodness my instructor had the wisdom to compress his hyperbole into power point slides.
I had to buy this book for a Natural Disasters class I'm taking. I must say, for information this book is good, if you have time to actually read it. For taking an open book test, IT SUCKS! The way the information is layed out in the book is informative, but it doesn't help when you have 2 hrs to take a test, and you have to flip around all over it to mayby, possibly, hopefully find the answers to the questions that you have never seen before, yet studied. That's what, 2 minutes to find each answer on a test of 75 questions. NOPE! That doesn't work at all. Did not have time to read two-three pages or more to find the answer, when time was ticking away. The way this book reads, you would think, that one would already be a geologist or volcanologist, or whatever. This book is the probably the most hard book to read, I have ever read, if that makes sense. You certainly cant find any answers in any decent amount of time, especially taking a 75 question test that was even multiple choice for crying out loud. Suppose to be easy, right? Not so. We all are not volcanologist or geologist, or whatever. This book needs to lighten up, and put the definitions, events, etc in laymans terms, and in a format everyone can read and understand, and find the answers in a reasonable amount of time. Even the information between the chapters, especially the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos totally overlap each other. For taking a test, that's not good. The definitions and answers should be pretty much straight forward. I hate this book, cant you tell.
book was a college class requirement but turned out to be a good reference, easy to read, easy to take notes from
Great book! Maybe if I went back to buy it again I'd prefer hard cover, but that's a personal preference.
I got my book pretty fast and was really happy with the quality the book was in.
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