books by Ernest Zebrowski (unlearned disasters reasoning)

books by Ernest Zebrowski

books:

History of the Circle
Ernest Zebrowski

Free Association Books, 1999

The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives

15 reviews
Ernest Zebrowski

Rutgers University Press, 2002

A comparative review of two (very good) books about the same event
This review is unusual in that it compares two books that were published nearly at the same time and both deal with the same event: the devastating 1902 eruption of Montagne Pelée volcano on the Caribbean island of Martinique. The first of these books is Alwyn Scarth's "LA Catastrophe: The Eruption of Mount Pelée, the Worst Volcanic Disaster of the 20th Century", the second is Ernest ...

Perils of a Restless Planet: Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters

11 reviews
Jr., Ernest Zebrowski

Cambridge University Press, 1999

Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters
Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. is both a teacher and a story-teller in "Perils of a Restless Planet." I picked the book up to review it and found myself reading it from cover to cover all over again. Stylistically, the author will begin with the story of, say, the San Francisco earthquake (1906). He then compares it to the Messina earthquake (1908), and asks why there were so many more casualties in the ...

Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane

12 reviews
Ernest Zebrowski, Judith A. Howard

University of Michigan Press, 2005

36 Years Before Katrina
This book, the story of 1969's Hurricane Camille, is a breezy (yes, that word APPLIES) read which interweaves several plotlines -- the powerful force of a Cat 5 hurricane, the lives it touched and the tragedies which occurred, the will to survive, the peculiar and corrupt qualities of Louisiana politics, the ongoing civil rights movement of the time, and the surprisingly primitive nature of ...

A History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical Universe

5 reviews
Ernest Zebrowski

Rutgers University Press, 2000

A DECIDEDLY PLEASANT JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF SCIENCE
The beauty of Ernest Zebrowski's book, A HISTORY OF THE CIRCLE, is that it was written for everyone, not just for science professors. The author never talks down to his readers. Clearly, Mr. Zebrowski is not just a superb scientist and mathematician: he is also a skilled writer, teacher, philospher, and historian. Like Lewis Thomas, he has a wonderful way of making science come alive. He ...