Earthquake: Nature and Culture - Softcover

'Studying earthquakes is somewhat like the apocryphal medical school dean who tells students: ''Half of what we will teach you in the next four years is wrong. The problem is that we don't know which half.'' Robinson conveys this spirit in a lively and well-written introduction to earthquakes and how people discovered, struggle to understand, and try to figure out how to deal with this dramatic, destructive, and still poorly understood phenomenon.' --Seth Stein, seismologist and author of Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest

Andrew Robinson is the author of 25 books, including Earthshock and The Story of Measurement. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he lives in London.