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| Author | : Susan Elizabeth Hough |
| Publisher | : Mountain Press Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : 9780878424955 |
The book begins with a discussion about what faults are and how to recognize them. The geologic tours follow, exploring the seismic hazards of the Los Angeles Basin, the San Francisco Bay Area, central California, the Mojave Desert, a neighborhood that is
| Author | : Thurston Clarke |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1997-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780345409089 |
"DELIGHTFULLY ECLECTIC . . . Move over, Alexis de Tocqueville. When Thurston Clarke makes the UFO-earthquake connection halfway through Fault, he elevates himself to the first rank of America's social observers." --Los Angeles Times California has always symbolized the good life, but social problems and natural disasters have tarnished the image of the Golden State. To find out what happened to the California Dream, Clarke sets off on a remarkable journey down the San Andreas fault searching for earthquakes and good news. From the "sensitive" whose headaches predict earthquakes with uncanny precision to a determined dreamer at the Salton Sea who hopes someday to build a blue-collar resort along the abandoned shores, Clarke introduces us to a memorable cast of eccentrics, asking each the provocative question: What is it like living in a place that--no matter how beautiful--might suddenly, while you opened the cereal, combed your hair, or bathed the baby, strike you dead? "VIVID AND CONTINUALLY SURPRISING . . . The author has an unerring ability to search out exactly the right despoiler, utopian, or local eccentric to illuminate the history and character of each stop along the way." --The New Yorker
| Author | : Eleanor H. Ayer |
| Publisher | : American Traveler Press |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781558381209 |
Striking full-colour guides. Bound in water repellent, film laminated covers. Extensive centre-spread maps of the state highlights locations featured in each book. Special 8-pocket and 4-pocket lucite display racks available with purchase of the series.
| Author | : Tomás Almaguer |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520089471 |
"An excellent summary and interpretation of race relations in nineteenth-century California. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, it is the last and best word on the historical origins of the racial hierarchy that contemporary multiculturalists are struggling to overcome."--George Fredrickson, Stanford University "Sometime soon in the 21st century, all of California's peoples will belong to minorities, and Almaguer's pathbreaking comparative history is indispensable for understanding how and why this society became so racially diverse. His study expands the borders of multicultural scholarship."--Ronald Takaki, University of California, Berkeley "Evocatively written and theoretically compelling, "Racial Fault Lines represents a benchmark in the writing of U.S. history. Almaguer blends sociological paradigms with rich historical narratives in his perspicacious examination of racial and class formation among nineteenth-century Californians. Me
| Author | : Philip L. Fradkin |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2014-02-04 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1466864311 |
Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.
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| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780520218970 |
This is a beautifully illustrated general-interest book on the most famous fault on Earth. The San Andreas Fault, site of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and many others, is the boundary between two of the earth's crustal plates, and it is a major architect of California's diverse landscapes.
| Author | : David Goodman |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520232037 |
"This is a searingly honest book by someone who really knows his subject. Goodman is sympathetic to the attempts at transformation in my beloved motherland. The message of this book applies just as easily to the United States, where the fault lines run very deep, too. And the U.S. has been trying to solve these problems a great deal longer than the new South Africa."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu "David Goodman's vivid, intensely personal, and unobtrusively erudite book is irresistible reading for anyone who cares about South Africa."—Adam Hochshild, author of King Leopold's Ghost "A gem of a book. An excellent introduction to the intricacies of South African politics and society."—Gail M. Gerhart, Foreign Affairs "A sequence of truths shown through the lives of eight contrasted citizens, this book reveals our new South Africa with the startling accuracy of flashes of lightning on a stormy night—and with the apartheid storm over, a remarkable rainbow of hope can be seen."—Donald Woods, author of Biko
| Author | : American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Pacific Section |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : Faults (Geology) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William Hung Kan Lee |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Earthquakes |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sarah Beanland |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Earthquakes |
| ISBN | : |
Estimates of slip and magnitude of the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake and estimates of late Quaternary slip, slip rate, and earthquake recurrence associated with the 100-km-long fault zone as determined at 40 sites.
