reviews of "the orphan tsunami of 1700"

2006-04-24T12:52:00.000-07:00

E-REVIEWS OF "THE ORPHAN TSUNAMI OF 1700"

BESIDES THE PRINT REVIEWS of "Orphan" blogged below, Internet-based reviews of the book are available as well. A selection follows (in Google order):

HistoryLink.org, "Featured book of the week,"
"This beautifully designed, profusely illustrated, bilingual book gathers together Japanese texts, Native American traditions, and all the earth science that researchers have brought to bear on the case. On nearly every page the relevance of this history to our present-day situation is underscored. This book about the "big one" of long ago should be of special interest to all of us right now." --Priscilla Long http://www.historylink.org/study_aids/bookshelf.cfm (site co-sponsored by UW Press)

"The mastery of this book lies in its combining history from the northwest side of the Pacific Ocean with geologic studies on the northeast side.... The clarity of the visuals is striking.... This book offers a readable, detailed look at what happens on both sides of the Pacific Ocean when large subduction zone earthquakes occur. Knowing that they do happen, we can now take steps to reduce deaths and damage." --Kathleen Sayce http://www.tidepool.org/original_content.cfm?articleid=184844

"... we can live in tranquil ignorance no longer.... We're all too familiar with the horrifying effects of big earthquakes--the Southeast Asian tsunami and the recent earthquake in Pakistan. But what would happen if a similar sized quake struck again in Cascadia? And what lessons can we learn from the history of the Northwest before it was inhabited by Europeans?" Eric de Place http://cascadiascorecard.typepad.com/blog/alaska/index.html

[MORE TO COME]

2006-04-21T12:01:00.000-07:00

USE OF "THE ORPHAN TSUNAMI OF 1700" IN TEACHING

SELECTION OF "THE ORPHAN TSUNAMI" for instructional use is an endorsement of the book by teachers. This, in turn, leads to related questions:

How and at what levels (K-19) are teachers using "Orphan"?
For what courses has "Orphan" been chosen?

Insight into these questions can be gained from class assignments posted on the Internet. These include:

Kip Ault, Clark College, Vancouver, Washington, "Teaching science to adolescents":
http://www.lclark.edu/~

Gwyneth Jones, General Studies 251, "Earth science and the ecosystem," Trinity Lutheran College, Issaquah, Washington, http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/gj/TLCgs251.html
Gwyneth Jones, Oceanography 101, Bellevue Community College, Washington,
http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/gj/TLCgs251.html

Charlie Rubin, Central WashingtonUniv., Ellensburg, Geology 101, "Physical geology":
http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/charlier/courses/g101/ps1.html

David Vorhees, Waubonsee Community College, Illinois, Geology 103, "Environmental geology,": http://chat.wcc.cc.il.us/~dvoorhee/GLG103/GLG103pospaper.htm

2006-04-20T14:43:00.000-07:00

JAPANESE REVIEWS of "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America"

Japanese-language reviews of "Orphan Tsunami" have recently begun sprouting on the Internet. Thus, Japanese readers now also face the difficulty of finding useful reviews among the book-availability listings of libraries and commercial booksellers. To ease their quest, here I provide a working list of Japanese reviews.

Page locations below, which will drift over time, are based on first setting Google preferences to ALL languages, and then searching on the quoted string, "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700".

Google, page 11, Active Fault Research Center News (employer of co-author Kenji Satake): http://unit.aist.go.jp/actfault/katsudo/news/no.50/news.html

Google, p. 12, apparently an academic society site, http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/ssj/ssjinfo/NL/v17n6/08.html

Google, p. 14, Prof. Koyama (same review as above): 本書には，地球規模の破局的災害に関する国際共同プロジェクトの金字塔とも言える... [You can call this book the gold-lettered tower of international joint projects on catastrophic terrestrial disasters...] http://sk01.ed.shizuoka.ac.jp/koyama/public_html/etc/shohyou/satake.html

Google, p. 17, Rekishi Zisin (written by our Japanese co-authors): http://sakuya.ed.shizuoka.ac.jp/rzisin/kaishi_20/39-Atwater.pdf

READERS OF ENGLISH may obtain rough translations of most of these pages by accessing them directly from Google, and clicking there on "translate this page."

2006-01-22T03:11:00.000-08:00

SINCE THE NOVEMBER 2005 publication of "the orphan tsunami of 1700,"* 735 internet links to it persist (513 english, 103 japanese, 119 other). As most are the brief sites of commercial booksellers and libraries with limited content, here I provide a one-stop guide to selected print reviews of the book to date, from varying perspectives, as a co-author (dky).

*THE ORPHAN TSUNAMI OF 1700, Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America (Atwater Brian F, Musumi-Rokkaku Satoko, Satake Kenji, Tsuji Yoshinobu, Ueda Kazue, and Yamaguchi David K, 2005, U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington Press, 133 pp).

AMAZON.COM subject rankings: seismology #15, earthquakes and volcanoes #22 (June 3, 2006).

"BLUE PENCIL" AWARD, Natl. Assn. of Government Communicators, technical or statistical reports category, 2005.

U.W. PRESS BESTSELLER list, spring 2006 catalog (pdf). http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/catalogs/catalog.html

MOST COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW:
"... an amazing blend of scientific, literary, and anthropological disciplines..." john driscoll, http://www.times-standard.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3383126

NORTHWEST URBAN VIEWS:
"It's news that no one wants to know, but few can resist reading about." michael upchurch, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2002642902_tsunami25.html?syndication=rss

"This gorgeous book... contains important lessons on how humans thoughout the Pacific rim can prepare for future tsunamis..." karen mccowen, eugene, oregon: http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/01/08/ar.bookshortrvws.0108.p1.php?section=oregonlife

"This could well have been as large an event as the Indian Ocean quake and tsunami..." tom paulson, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/252866_cascadia21.html

COASTAL NEWSPAPERS:
"... a heck of a geological story for the casual reader..." gene woodwick, quinalt nation nugguam, http://209.206.175.157/canoepeople.htm

"... “The Orphan Tsunami of 1700” is a must-read for residents of the Pacific Northwest, especially for those of us who live near the Pacific Ocean, or west of the Cascade Mountains, for that matter." http://www.chinookobserver.info/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=52&TM=51616.01

ASIAN AMERICAN:
"... a compelling visual lesson in understanding history, geology and Japanese language." nhien nyugen, http://www.iexaminer.org/archives/?p=139

AVAILABILITY:
barnes & noble (u village, seattle*), elliott bay books*, kinokuniya*, university bookstore*; third place books (lake forest park); powell's (portland, oregon); southern coastal washington: ocean shores interpretive center, pacific county museum (south bend), redman hall (skamokawa).

LIBRARIES: http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/3a5b9a3f5dc21fb0a19afeb4da09e526.html