Elizabeth Rusch
Autor de Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World
Obras de Elizabeth Rusch
You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People (2020) 55 copias
Impact!: Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World (Scientists in the Field Series) (2017) 51 copias
The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change (2023) 16 copias
the big one 1 copia
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- New York, New York, USA
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The true danger of volcanoes has never been so palpable on the page. Author Elizabeth Rusch takes readers all over the globe to visit some of the world's most explosive volcanoes and we get to meet the people living at their doorsteps, along with the scientists whose main priority is keeping folks out of harm's way. It's trickier than it sounds. Evacuating an area around an active volcano means hugely disrupting people's lives. What if you tell them to flee and you're wrong? What if you don't tell them to flee and they die?
This book has local interest for Washington state, too. Obviously, we are in the Ring of Fire and Mt. St. Helens lurks. But did you know that the VDAP (Volcano Disaster Assistance Program) has offices in Vancouver, Washington, at the Cascades Volcano Observatory? (You can check our volcano alert level here: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/cvo/.)
Wonderfully written, with awesome photography, and packed with information, I imagine this will inspire some future vulcanologists.… (más)