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A vivid, insightful, heavily illustrated book... Most important, Volcanoes is fun. The authors take us on a roller-coaster ride through centuries of volcanic thrills, keeping our attention riveted on the deadly fireworks, while giving us just enough science to deepen our awe. --William J. Broad, The New York Times Book Review A short course in volcanology offered by a team of scientists who bring both scholarship and something like glee to their work... Abundantly illustrated, always accessible and sometimes downright chatty, Volcanoes is a work of science that has not lost its sense of wonder. --Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change is written by three respected vulcanologists who, having witnessed several volcanic tragedies, hope to inform and educate people about the wonders, the thrills, and the dangers of volcanoes...[It is an] informative and entertaining book. --Hazel Rymer, The Times Higher Education Supplement [An] entertaining and informative book that puts volcanoes firmly in their social and cultural place, as well as summarizing the scientific advances that have helped us to understand why and when they erupt... It's a good read, too, written with enthusiasm and expert knowledge, as well as deadpan humour. --Sue Bowler, New Scientist Volcanoes is a compendium of facts and observations, compellingly and concisely explained. --Richard Fortey, London Review of Books

Eyewitness accounts and detailed documentation of what happens above and below ground enliven this discussion of volcanoes past and present. Here you can find out what goes on before and during eruptions, as well as discover what volcanologists do. But this book also bears in mind that a fair number of people will first attempt to defy volcanoes when threatened by an eruption. Also considered are the problems of when to close roads and evacuate areas, and there is a fascinating account of the discussions at the time of the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980. Editor's note: Dr Sue Bowler is the editor of Astronomy and Geographysics, the journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, and works at the School of Earth Sciences at Leeds University. (Kirkus UK)

A vivid, insightful, heavily illustrated book... Most important, Volcanoes is fun. The authors take us on a roller-coaster ride through centuries of volcanic thrills, keeping our attention riveted on the deadly fireworks, while giving us just enough science to deepen our awe. -- William J. Broad The New York Times Book Review A short course in volcanology offered by a team of scientists who bring both scholarship and something like glee to their work... Abundantly illustrated, always accessible and sometimes downright chatty, Volcanoes is a work of science that has not lost its sense of wonder. -- Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change is written by three respected vulcanologists who, having witnessed several volcanic tragedies, hope to inform and educate people about the wonders, the thrills, and the dangers of volcanoes...[It is an] informative and entertaining book. -- Hazel Rymer The Times Higher Education Supplement [An] entertaining and informative book that puts volcanoes firmly in their social and cultural place, as well as summarizing the scientific advances that have helped us to understand why and when they erupt... It's a good read, too, written with enthusiasm and expert knowledge, as well as deadpan humour. -- Sue Bowler New Scientist Volcanoes is a compendium of facts and observations, compellingly and concisely explained. -- Richard Fortey London Review of Books

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Richard V. Fisher is Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Grant Heiken, a volcanologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, teaches courses in volcanology at the University of New Mexico. Jeffrey B. Hulen is a research geologist at the Energy and Geoscience Institute of the University of Utah.

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