The Politics of Earthquake Prediction / / Richard S. Olson, Joanne M. Nigg, Bruno Podesta.
The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE. Introduction: Politics and Science
- TWO. A Prediction Contained, 1976-1979
- THREE. The Stakes Increase, 1979
- FOUR. Bureaucratic Politics Takes Over, 1980
- FIVE. Late 1980: The Prediction Goes Public-in the U.S.
- SIX. Brady's 1981 "Trial": The First Day
- SEVEN. Hardball: The Second Day of the Trial
- EIGHT. The Controversy Continues
- NINE. "Doomsday" Approaches -and Passes
- TEN. Reflections
- NOTES
- INDEX