The earthquake observers [[electronic resource] ] : disaster science from Lisbon to Richter / / Deborah R. Coen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786363403321
• Autore: Coen Deborah R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-73328-5; 0-226-11183-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.209/034
• Soggetti: Earthquakes - Observations - History - 19th century; Seismology - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- ONE. The Human Seismograph -- TWO. The Planet in the Village: Comrie, Scotland, 1788-1897 -- THREE. News of the Apocalypse -- FOUR. The Tongues of Seismology: Switzerland, 1855-1912 -- FIVE. Geographies of Hazard -- SIX. The Moment of Danger -- SEVEN. Fault Lines and Borderlands: Imperial Austria, 1880-1914 -- EIGHT. What Is the Earth? -- NINE. The Youngest Land: California, 1853-1906 -- TEN. A True Measure of Violence: California, 1906-1935 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake was built of stories-stories from as many people in as many situations as possible. Sometimes their stories told of fear and devastation, sometimes of wonder and excitement. In The Earthquake Observers, Deborah R. Coen acquaints readers not only with the century's most eloquent seismic commentators, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Karl Kraus, Ernst Mach, John Muir, and William James, but also with countless other citizen-observers, many of whom were women. ; Coen explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. Seismology abandoned this project of citizen science with the introduction of the Richter Scale in the 1930s, only to revive it in the twenty-first century in the face of new hazards and uncertainties. The Earthquake Observers tells the history of this interrupted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living with environmental risk.

The hunt for dark infinity : The 13th reality series, book 2. / / James Dashner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910149533503321
• Autore: Dashner James
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 2014
• ISBN: 1-60641-616-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: The 13th Reality, ; 2.
• Classificazione: JUV037000
• Disciplina: [Fic]
• Soggetti: Space and time; Adventure and adventurers; Science fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: It's been a quiet summer for Tick, Paul, and Sofia, but the latest message from Master George changes everything. The Realities are in danger—and from something more terrible than Mistress Jane and the mutated Chi'karda of the Thirteenth Reality. People from all Realities are unexplainably going insane. Worse, some Realities are fragmenting, disintegrating into nothingness. Master George has learned that Mr. Chu from the Fourth Reality is working on a mysterious new weapon called Dark Infinity. But no one has any idea how to stop the weapon—or even if it can be stopped. To make matters worse, Tick and his friends have been kidnapped, forced to wink from Reality to Reality, ; solving impossible riddles in order to survive the deadly traps surrounding them. Mistress Jane and Tick find themselves in a race to reach the weapon first—but who will destroy it and who will become its master?