Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard, 2nd Edition, comprehensively describes the nature and process of tsunami formation, outlines field evidence for detecting the presence of past events, and describes notable events linked to earthquakes, volcanoes, submarine landslides, and comet impacts. The author provides a clear approach to the study of tsunami, through dynamics, impact on coastlines, and overviews of the various major mechanisms of tsunami generation. Liberal case studies and examples highlight the significance of this underrated natural hazard for coastal societies.
Based on archeological research conducted on a sixth to tenth century Pictish settlement on Tarbat Ness, Easter Ross, this book recounts the life, culture, and burial practice of the Picts. It describes the process of archeological discovery and interpretation and details daily life at the Portmahomack monastery.
Helping Kids Hope; A Teacher Explores the Need For Meaning In Our Schools and In Our Lives
In a healthy, meaningful, and enriching education, teachers and students treasure, celebrate, and nurture themselves and each other. Helping Kids Hope describes one teacher's efforts to learn, and to teach in this way.
A great book, covers many firearms. It is a wonderful reference, and will soon be a collector's item. It lists and describes all of the currently manufactured production-line sporting firearms made in the United States. It also lists and describes those made abroad and sold in the United States, whether they are designed here and produced specifically for the American import market, or designed in the country of manufacture for sale here and perhaps elsewhere. Specifications are provided; background data and comment arc provided; clear photographs of most of the guns are provided; and there are even exploded views and cutaway or other technical illustrations of some of them.
Towards an Understanding of Language Learner Self-Concept
This book contributes to our growing understanding of the nature and development of language learner self-concept. It assesses the relevant literature in the disciplines of psychology and applied linguistics and describes in-depth, qualitative research examining the self-concepts of tertiary-level EFL learners.
