Susan Richter's Books

Richter's Scale

Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man

By: Susan Elizabeth Hough

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Richter's Scale

Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man

By: Susan Elizabeth Hough

By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, his academic career, and the history of seismology. Among his colleagues Richter was known as intensely private, passionately interested in earthquakes, and iconoclastic. He was an avid nudist, seismologists tell each other with a grin; he dabbled in poetry. He was a publicity hound, some suggest, and more famous than he deserved to be. But even his closest associates were unaware that he struggled to reconcile an intense and abiding need for artistic expression with his scientific interests, or that his apparently strained relationship with his wife was more unconventional but also stronger than they knew. Moreover, they never realized that his well-known foibles might even have been the consequence of a profound neurological disorder. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology. In doing so, she illuminates the world of earth science for the lay reader, much as Sylvia Nasar brought the world of mathematics alive in A Beautiful Mind.

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351

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Princeton University Press

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0691173281

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9780691173283

Fine Art Identification and Price Guide

By: Susan Theran

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Fine Art Identification and Price Guide

By: Susan Theran

Lists current price ranges for paintings, drawings, and sculpture by hundreds of artists, and tells how to start collecting art.

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828

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0380769247

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9780380769247

Between the Lines

Reading Skills for Intermediate-advanced Students of English as a Second Language

By: Jean Zukowski/Faust,Susan S. Johnston,Clark S. Atkinson

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Between the Lines

Reading Skills for Intermediate-advanced Students of English as a Second Language

By: Jean Zukowski/Faust,Susan S. Johnston,Clark S. Atkinson

Between the Lines, Second Edition, offers the high intermediate college-bound learner intense and fascinating practice in the development of high-level reading skills for academic purposes. Over 50 different exercise types are found throughout eight thematic content area articles of contemporary relevance. These high-interest readings provide the basis for recognizing and mastering distinct skills, which include skimming, scanning, surveying, generalizing, synopsizing, inferring, and concluding. The new edition retains the strength of the original while adding innovative opportunities for implementation and expansion.

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292

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Harcourt Brace College Publishers

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0030596017

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9780030596018

The Yellow Book of Wordplay Stories

By: Susan Batko

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The Yellow Book of Wordplay Stories

By: Susan Batko

A collection of stories designed to teach the meaning of different words.

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182

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0918468019

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9780918468017

Almanac of Famous People, A-I

By: Susan L. Stetler

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Almanac of Famous People, A-I

By: Susan L. Stetler

Brief summaries of the careers of famous people, with occupation, places and dates of birth and death, and sources of information. Includes living and deceased persons.

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1778

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Gale Cengage

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0810369893

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9780810369894

365 Fun Activities for Parents, Teachers, and Kids

By: Susan Ohanian

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365 Fun Activities for Parents, Teachers, and Kids

By: Susan Ohanian

Children will be begging to learn with this exciting new activity book containing hundreds of entertaining projects based on fascinating facts, true life events, and worldwide celebrations. Kids will have so much fun, they'll forget they're learning math, science, history and more.

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772

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N A L

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0451192745

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9780451192745

Book's by Susan Richter

Richter's Scale

Richter's Scale

Fine Art Identification and Price Guide

Fine Art Identification and Price Guide

Between the Lines

Between the Lines

The Yellow Book of Wordplay Stories

The Yellow Book of Wordplay Stories

Almanac of Famous People, A-I

Almanac of Famous People, A-I

365 Fun Activities for Parents, Teachers, and Kids

365 Fun Activities for Parents, Teachers, and Kids

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