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Buy Volcanoes and Earthquakes (DK Eyewitness Books) by DK Publishing available and for sale on Brightsurf
| View Larger Image | Volcanoes and Earthquakes (DK Eyewitness Books)
by DK Publishing
| | List Price: | $15.99 | | Price: | $10.87 | | You Save: | $5.12 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 59049 | | Studio: | DK CHILDREN | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Reading Level: | Ages 9-12 | | Number Of Pages: | 72 | | Publication Date: | August 09, 2004 | | Publisher: | DK CHILDREN |
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Book Description
New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text!
Here is an exciting and informative guide to the violent eruptions and tremors that shape our planet. Superb color photographs of lava flows and clouds of ash, plus specially built 3-D models, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of volcanoes and earthquakes, from the forces that drive them to the devastation they cause. See streams of red-hot lava, the earliest seismographs, rocks that float in water, the bodies of people killed by the great eruption of Vesuvius, and pools of bubbling mud. Learn how animals can detect earthquakes before people, what causes a fire fountain, how buildings are made to withstand earthquakes, where to hide during an earthquake, and why the earth shakes. Discover how the Mercalli scale works, how new islands are formed, why the sands of Hawaii are black, how volcanoes affect the ozone layer, what makes magma explode, what a pyrolcastic flow is, and much, much more! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 3 reviews)
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The book I purchased is an excellent investment. I am VERY pleased.
January 10, 2007 | |
I LOVE VOLCANOES AND EATHQUAKES
THIS DK BOOK IS IN FIRST PLACE.
I AM VERY INTERESTED ABOUT VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES ALOT.
THIS BOOK WAS JUST THE BEST ONES I READ IN MY DK BOOK
COLLECTION.DK BOOKS ARE THE BEST.AND VOLCANOES ARE THE BEST
FOR KYLE ADRIAN VENTURA
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July 27, 2005 | |
Pleasant coverage of the subject 
This is one of the better DK �Eyewitness� books I�ve read. It contained a pleasant mix of hard science, accounts of sensationalistic disasters, and the effects on the environment / cultures. The usual mind-boggling amount of details and facts are accompanied by numerous pictures and drawings to keep younger and more mature readers interested. One oddity is that this ended on a seemingly odd topic--the role of gods and religion in people�s interpretation of volcanoes and earthquakes. Just prior to this the study of volcanoes, and improvements in detection / building codes had been addressed (a very forward-looking topic) but then the last page is about gods (a historical perspective topic). Whatever.
May 23, 2002 | |
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