The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith Softcover - 2004
by ULIN, David L
- Used
- Fine
- first
From the first earthquake David L. Ulin experienced in San Francisco at age eighteen, he was fascinated with the daily lives of Californians, who seem to be going about their business with just an occasional rumbling interruption. But these tectonic shifts could easily wreak cataclysmic havoc, just as they did in the great earthquake of 1906.
In The Myth of Solid Ground, Ulin explores how an unlikely collection of scientists, psychics, and apocalyptics have made startlingly accurate earthquake predictions based on everything from magnetic fields to the behavior of whales. In the end, Ulin uses the world of earthquake prediction to explore the deep fault lines of belief and the human longing to hold control, no matter how misguided, over a mysterious and deadly phenomenon that is as much a part of California as speed, youth, and celebrity.
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- Title The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith
- Author ULIN, David L
- Binding Softcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 290
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, (New York)
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # 383885
- ISBN 9780670033232 / 0670033235
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.84 x 0.98 in (21.64 x 14.83 x 2.49 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004041491
- Dewey Decimal Code 551.220
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