My shameless plug for "Volcanoes: Global Perspectives"

Con? What happened to "Hey, can you answer some questions for my blog readers?" :P

I'll keep an eye out for the book - but I have another 4 books to finish reading first.

Erik you are right, and I shamelessly support this book. I think this is one of the best volcanology text books to have been issued in a long time - I do love Hans-Ulrich Schmincke's "Volcanism" but this one here is still more accessible, especially to non-expert readers.

Everybody interested in volcanoes should get this - the paperback version is less expensive than the hardcover one (still around 80 US$ but you get a lot for that money)

Thanks Erik ( and Boris for the supportive words and the paperback hinweis) for this bookreference.
As I was looking for a good book on Volcanism, this will be on top of my shoppinglist.( together with Schminke's book)

Thanks again also for this outstanding blog, where I have learned a good deal in a relatively short time!

Erik, thanks for the tip. I am not a geologist, but after finding this blog (and becoming addicted) I was looking for a good book on volcanism.

@Boris: paperback is only 38EUR at http://www.bookdepository.co.uk (price includes international shipping) - I just ordered it.

Thanks for the reference, will be on one of my shelves soon.

Ordered. Lockwood & Hazlett? Where do I remember them from? Pinatubo? I was a recent geology graduate when that was going on..

@Ursula #4: Maybe you ordered the wrong book "Volcanoes" by Peter Francis, which is 38 euros. The book by John Lockwood is 42.99 euros.

@Peter #7: Thanks, but no, I re-checked, it is Lockwood&Hazlett, Volcanoes: Global Perspectives (Paperback), ISBN 9781405162500.
It is 38EUR for me - maybe the price depends on where you are (since shipping is included in price)? I am in Ireland.

I know of one bookstore charging £91 for it !

@Ursula #8: Ok, good for you. I'm in the Netherlands. I ordered the paperback version for 42.99.
@ Zander #9: The hardcover version is 96.35 euros

Amazon has it available to Canadians for about $60-65 in paperback.

I'll have to wait until it shows up at the Library.

Erik and Boris, I'm glad you have recommended this book. I was checking it out as I get Volcano List Serve (I think that is what it is called) so I knew about it. I was wondering what you two would have to say.

I definitely want to get this book and I know it will cost a bundle, but, hey, great reference, great info and a lot to learn.

Thanks.

I had an email update from Wiley Blackwell a while ago and ordered one for my A level group. Was hoping it would arrive before half term so I could read it first.

Someone please finish theirs and put it Amazon used (at a decent price). This science teacher can't afford this book new unless I sell a kid or a kidney . . .

Aloha Erik and ERUPTIONS afficionados: Rick Hazlett and I are gratified by your positive comments on our book! Please pardon the high price - when the publisher decided to go full-color for photos and illustrations, costs rose unavoidably.

Erik wrote: "Maybe I can even con Dr. Lockwood into a Q&A here on Eruptions!" SURE - Fire away!

Preparing this book has taken decades - we learned a lot in the process, and our hope is that in some way, people will learn how to have better "relations" with volcanoes - and that maybe lives will be spared by work of future volcanologists who will learn from the book. My main motivation in writing the book can be surmised from the experience I documented on pp 413-414.....

Questions anyone?

Jack

I love the way you sound so passionate about what you are writing. Keep up the great work!

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