Title: The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith
Publisher: Viking, NY
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0670033235
ISBN 13: 9780670033232
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Explores how an unlikely collection of scientists, psychics, and doomsday prophets have made accurate earthquake predictions based on a wide range of empirical and otherworldly signs, observing how the practice of earthquake prediction reflects a human need for control. 20,000 first printing.

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David L. Ulin is the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology. He is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly; he has also written for GQ, the Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Chicago Tribune.

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