Earthshattering Events!: The Science Behind Natural Disasters

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With provocative insight, Walls charts the centuries-long uneasy tension between the walled and unwalled, showing that walls profoundly shape the human psyche. Earth Shattering Events is a hardback book all about extreme disasters that happen on our home planet. Earth-Shattering Events is anything but a light touch, providing fascinating insights into areas of science that aren't often covered in such exquisite detail in natural history books. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. A multi-layered book to be explored again and again, with extra material including a glossary of terms, a timeline of key thinkers, and an index of themes .

After its wholesale destruction in 1906, San Francisco went on to flourish, eventually giving birth to the high-tech industrial area on the San Andreas fault known as Silicon Valley. From climate change to animal conservation, these picture books, poetry collections, novels and graphic novels will encourage children and young people to think about and discuss pressing issues about the environment. It’s important to understand how and why natural disasters happen, and what they leave behind – and, not least, how they affect some of the poorest people on the planet.I had a really good advisor alongside to help me out, and then it was a matter of making sure the facts were there in their clearest and simplest form. But in others, the political and economic reverberations of earthquake disasters have presented opportunities for renewal.

Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective" --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, California, and author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God.Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Besides, I find that kids are often enthralled by the thought of something even more powerful than grownups! Clear, coherent explanations break down the science behind phenomena including hurricanes, tornadoes, avalanches, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, alongside fascinating facts about the biggest and the worst. Earth Shattering Events could well spark interest in geography, the science behind natural disasters and the effects of climate change.

Some images fill double page spreads and are shown as maps covering tectonic plates or tornadoes and will satisfy those who love an infographic, whilst Williams’ diagrams make scientific cross-sections much more comprehensible for young geographers. The introduction’s warning—“every so often, the planet reminds us who’s boss”—rings out again at the conclusion, which explains how climate change could amplify each of these terrible and fascinating natural events''. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. is one of those books that perfectly balances both the needs of the child, and the wants of the adult; it's fun, educational and equally entertaining to people big and small.Many, such as Lisbon, Naples, San Francisco, Tehran and Tokyo, have been severely damaged or destroyed by earthquakes in the past. People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they’re standing on one and getting soaked by the other.

The consistent format and style throughout the book will give pupils and teachers ideas on how to present their work. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.Through the mix of illustrated characters, landscapes and scientific diagrams I think we got the balance just right.