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DE BOER, J. Z. & SANDERS, D. T. 2004. Earthquakes in Human History. The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions.

xvii+278 pp. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press. Price £15.95 (hard covers). ISBN 0 691 05070 8.

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This book, subtitled ‘The far-reaching effects of seismic disruptions’, is a collaboration between a Professor of Earth Science at Wesleyan University (de Boer) and a science writer (Sanders). It arises from a lecture course by de Boer that attempts to convince liberal-arts undergraduates that "the sciences are not ‘bloodless’ – that, in the earth sciences in particular, something akin to the ‘breath of living man’ can be seen in phenomena such as volcanic eruptions [the topic of a previous collaborative book from . . . [Full Text of this Article]