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At 8:27 a.m. on May 18, 1980, Washington State's Mount St. Helens stood at 9,677 feet; in the next five minutes the mountain lost 1,300 feet, blowing its top in a blast so powerful that trees toppled 17 miles away. Hurricane-force winds stripped the soil from nearby ridges and hillsides, leaving bare rock. All plant life for miles around either vaporized or tore away from the surface of the earth. Once-pristine alpine lakes were transformed into "tea-colored swamps." Volcanic ash shrouded four states like snow while an ash plume high in the atmosphere circled the globe. All told, "57 people were dead, along with millions of birds, deer, elk, and fish." No longer would Northwesterners regard the chain of glacier-clad peaks extending from British Columbia's Mt. Garibaldi to Northern California's Mt. Lassen as benevolent dollops of recreational fun. For the first time they would see these peaks for what they are: volcanoes that could actually erupt. For scientists, Mount St. Helens would provide an ever-changing laboratory for study; indeed, important advances have been made in any number disciplines, from seismology to ecology.
Along with remarkable before-and-after images (including the famous Rosenquist photos of the initial blast), Rob Carson's 20th-anniversary retrospective captures the human drama leading up to the eruption and two decades of subsequent scientific discovery in its aftermath. The idea of a volcano erupting in the continental U.S. was certainly novel at the end of the age of disco. Washington governor Dixy Lee Ray hoped "to live long enough to see one of our volcanoes erupt." Sightseers rushed to the mountain, buying T-shirts with premature slogans like "I Survived Mount St. Helens." Harry Truman, "crotchety octogenarian" and whisky-packing owner and operator of the Mount St. Helens Lodge, made headlines by refusing to leave his home, claiming "that mountain will never hurt me." Truman perished under several hundred feet of ash. A geologist named David Johnston wasn't supposed to be near the mountain that day, but as fate would have it, he traded shifts; his last words shouted into his radio were "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!"
While the human element figures prominently in Carson's book, the truly amazing story is the one of postblast ecological recovery. Take the humble pocket gopher: those that survived began mixing ash with underlying soil, playing a critical role in making the land suitable once more for plant and animal life. Unbelievably, just three years after the eruption, 90 percent of plant species and nearly all mammals had returned to the most devastated areas. Scientists quickly learned that recovery, rather than depending on colonizing species from outside the blast zone, relied largely on species that never left--like hibernating frogs and toads, lucky pocket gophers, and countless subterranean insects. Of course, life outside the blast helped, too; the woolly bear caterpillar parachuted in to reclaim territory and windblown fireweed seeds soon blossomed in the pumice. And meanwhile, the mountain itself (called "Fire Mountain" by the Native American Klickitats) is rapidly growing once again. --Martha Silano
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Where were you on May 18, 1980, when Mount St. Helens erupted? Author Rob Carsons essays, accompanied by incredible photos, outline the events leading up to and following the eruption, with a special look at the 20-year process of the mountains rebirth. As plants, insects, animals, and people have reclaimed Mount St. Helens, the mountain remains a looming reminder of an event that changed the face of the Northwest.
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Beautiful Pictures, Good Writing, Great Descriptions.......2004-10-12
I went to visit Mount St. Helens just a few weeks before she started rumbling and spitting again. I got this book because it is so much better than the superficial descriptions given at the visitors centers. The book also has a much better story. It talks more about the details of what happened. Drawing show the inside of the volcano and what happened to make the eruption occur the way it did. All in all, a much better understanding of the mountain than I got visiting it.
The mountain is not exactly unique, but the lateral blast came as a real surprise to the volcanologists. Only in retrospect did what happened make good sense. The previous eruptions created a solid rock cap on the top of the mountain. The cap was strong enough and heavy enough that it successfully held the pressure. Like the proverbial irresistible force the side of the mountain swelled up and eventually fell away. When that happened the plug at the top of the mountain fell down opening up the channel to the top. Now they know how those previously discovered horseshoe shaped craters are made.
What you don't get from the book is the sense of magnitude that you get from visiting the site. You really can't imagine the blown over trees that go on for literally miles. The answer is simple. First, read the book. Second, go visit the mountain. Third, read the book again and you'll pick up a lot more.
Don't mistreat the pictures.......2000-09-26
An excellent book, completely readable and very informative. I visited the devastated area by chopper within a year after the big one, and Carson's book told me that a lot of the interpretations I heard in 1981 are no longer considered valid. I particularly enjoyed the appraisal of Weyerhauser's tree farms vs natural reforestation. There are favorable points for both, and it's essentially a matter of choosing the scientific or the industrial benefits. I bought the book at the Monument (Forest Service, not Park Service) and reading it while I was there made it all the more exciting. My only complaint: the page layouts. Too many tall, narrow pictures are printed across the binding. Photos of these dimensions would easily fit on a single page, and their impact and beauty are diminished when so much of them is buried in the binding. Possibly this flaw would be less objectionable in a sewn hardcover edition. Also, pictures are often printed as insets in larger photos -- which suggests to me that the book design was considered more important than the photographs. The illustrations are great complements to a splendid text, and they deserve kinder treatment.
An American volcano captured in photographic glory........2000-08-03
The eruption of Mt. St. Helens is captured in photographic glory for any who would learn about the explosion of the volcano and the subsequent recovery of its surrounding environment. Black and white and some color photos accompany extensive descriptions of the eruption, its short- and long-term effects, and environmental changes.
wow wonderful writing!.......1999-03-26
i love this book and the doofus who thought this book wasnt that great(the one below me) needs to read it again he says it moved quickly to the recovery of the mountain: look at the title! thats what it is about retard.you should recognize a great writer when you see one. humph
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amazing info.......2003-05-26
This book blew me away. It is worth every cent even if all you do is look at the pictures. This book inspired me to become a geologist.
Mount St. Helens.......2000-03-31
The study of Mount St. Helens is detailed and easy to follow. My friend got this book and now I am going to for a college resarch project. It provides the graphics and information necessary to get a good look at such a fantastic event of nature.
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The sleepy giant Mount St. Helens.......2006-02-17
This book about Mount St. Helens is really good. It give you alot of information about the silent, still, big and sleepy giant - Mount St. Helens. This sleepy giant was built by many eruptions over thousands of years. The pictures of the mountain are great because they show images before the eruption with green land all over and then after with just molten lava. How the earth spill the hot (magma) rock from inside. A volcano can be very destructitive to the land. The photograph shot from the helicopter shows very little life left like the moon after the explosion from the volcano on the mountain sides. Can you image how beautiful Mount St. Helens was before the eruption and destruction?
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens.......2000-04-09
This nonfiction book is about volcanoes. It tells about the events leading to the erruption of Mount St. Helens. It describes, in exciting detail, the actual erruption and the eventual rebirth of the volcano. The photographs are great. They help to tell the story along with the words so that you can get a feel for the total destruction and devastation caused by the erruption. The nice thing about the story is that it also includes the rebirth of the volcano and tells of a life cycle that can never be broken.
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Juvenile Young Adult; Science, Volcanos, Mount St. Helens
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Mount St. Helens (Disasters)
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Native Americans called Mount St. Helens Loowit (Lady of Fire), and warned unheeding settlers to stay away. In 1980 the mountain proved out the Indian legends, erupting with enough force to send up a mushroom cloud 45 miles across and create the largest landslide in recorded history. This handy and well-organized guide provides all the historical, geological, biological, and recreational information you'll need to take advantage of a truly unique natural area. It's conveniently divided into four sections: Mount St. Helens West, East, South, and North. Each section begins with the lay of the land and general driving directions for scenic tours. A selection of hikes follows, each with a capsule description that includes elevation gain, length of hike, what maps to use, the best season to visit, and a difficulty rating. Trailhead driving routes are also provided. If you're hankering to walk, bike, horseback, ski, or take a scenic drive through post-volcanic devastation, or if you want to see just how quickly nature regenerates after a natural disaster, A Complete Guide to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument is your ticket.
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Best of the Bunch.......2000-10-29
There are about 3 or 4 books on hiking around Mt. St. Helens and I'd rate this one as best of the bunch. Mr Vielbig covers all the trails, has good maps and provides the right amount of information on routefinding and what to see.
Book Description
This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on DVD-ROM presents an enormous library of documents and publications covering every aspect of the famous Mount St. Helens volcano and related subjects, with coverage of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington and U.S Forest Service material regarding the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. There are thousands of spectacular photographs, including many of the historic 1980 eruption.
At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. Nearly 230 square miles of forest was blown over or left dead and standing. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments.
Then on September 23, 2004, Mount St. Helens grumbled into restlessness. With a premonitory seismic swarm, magma began rising to the surface. It was a race worthy of a tortoise, however. The volcano's first proud proof of hard work was only an uplifted crater floor. After nine days a steam-and-ash eruption ensued. Deformation of the crater floor continued and gas emissions slowly increased. Finally, 14 days after the awakening seismic swarm, new lava was visible where it had pushed through the crater floor and begun building a volcanic dome.
Every aspect of Mount St. Helens is thoroughly covered in documents, publications, reports, maps, graphics, and images; hydrologic and hazards reports, and much more.
This incredible DVD-ROM is packed with over 38,000 pages, much of it reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The disc contains nearly 4 gigabytes of material in over 8,000 files!
Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.
This DVD-ROM disc is for use in a computer DVD drive. The files can be accessed from the File Explorer in the same way that you open files from a CD-ROM disc; the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM formats are functionally the same, but the DVD has more than six times greater storage capacity. Of course, this disc cannot be "played" in a DVD player connected to a television set. It contains computer-formatted data, not video.
Customer Reviews:
Rip Off Don't Buy this Product.......2007-04-04
The title got me interested. The promise that it is from the US Government, including the promise that it contains a collection of reports from the USGS on the eruption of Mount St Helens, only added that interest.
What a rip off!
Someone had copied all of the pages from the US Forest Service and USGS Internet Websites and burned them onto a DVD. And that is all it contains.
It does not even include recent material.
Believe me, save your time, money and grief and actually visit the Forest Service and USGS web pages on Mount St Helens. Visiting these sites will not cost you money and the information is at least up to date.
I am return this product and I expect a full refund.
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Video Girl Ai Vol. 5 Japanese Manga (Volume 5)
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Rare Video Girl Ai anime manga printed in Japan. Japanese text. Original manga subsequently translated and printed in the United States. A must have for any anime fan! Impossible to find in the United States!
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Video Girl Ai, Vol. 6
ASIN: 1569318557 |
Book Description
From the creator of DNA 2 and Shadow Lady comes another exciting manga adventure. Naoto's wildest dreams come true when he gets a video girl of his very own. But Mai is on a shadowy mission for Ai's creator, and she's gunning for the aberrant video girl!
Customer Reviews:
MOEMI OFFERS HER BODY....AGAIN.......2006-12-30
Moemi is prepared to lay it all on the line as she offers her body up to Yota but he keeps on seeing this vision of a faceless short haired girl telling him that he had finally made his "choice". He believes that this girl he is seeing is Ai and that no matter what his feelings or desires, he musn't go any further with Moemi and that he has to break up with her. He decides to focus exclusively on Ai, even though he can't tell her that he overheard her creator say that if a man could fall in love with Ai, he would make her human. He thinks if he tells her, then the deal would be off. Even as Yota breaks up with her, Moemi decides once again that she's not going down without a fight. Ai, meanwhile, doesn't believe Yota's statements that he doesn't want to be with Moemi. All the time this is going on, Ai's tape continues to run, and her time on Earth continues to run out. As you can see, things are in a mess, but with only a few volumes left in the series, Katsura's gonna have to bring things to an end.
Video Girl Ai is a manga that has gone on about 10 too many volumes. We've been pretty much stuck in stasis now for about five or six volumes with Yota going out with Moemi but still finding his mind drifting to Ai and telling himself it's only because he doesn't want her to disappear. Speaking of memory loss, has Yota completely forgotten how much he loved Ai in the first couple of volumes, and how he went to Hell to rescue her, quite literally? His feelings for Moemi have always seemed a bit more like desire or lust instead of true love, but he's been kidding himself for hundreds or even thousands of pages now that she's the one he loves. The characters are all stuck in emotional limbo, not because of their personalities, but because the writer wants to drag on the story longer than neccesary and make a few bucks more from the concept. It's a real shame because in the volumes that didn't have a lot fluff (which was about 5 out of 12 so far), the story really shined and was very compelling.
SAYING GOODBYE.......2006-12-02
Yota's deadline for submitting artwork for the children's book he's working on is tomorrow, but he feels it won't be up to snuff unless Ai is helping him out with the coloring. Which is probably true since there's always an aspect of being lost surrounding Yota when Ai isn't around. He's also still trying to work out who he really loves. Is Moemi just a consolation prize because he didn't want to get involved with Ai, who he knew was always destined to disappear eventually? But now he knows that Ai can become a real girl if a human falls in love with her so what's stopping him now? I'll tell you. He's a wuss! Meanwhile, his childhood friend Natsumi is laid up dying in a hospital and Ai has made it her mission to find the boyfriend that dumped her and caused her to come to Tokyo in the first place.
Video Girl Ai is suffused with too many characters that are afraid of rocking the boat, so they all just tend to wallow in misery. Yota is afraid to hurt Moemi's feelings by dumping her and going for Ai, while Ai is waiting for Yota to choose herself as the one he loves and get the courage to break up with Moemi. Natsumi has given up on seeing the guy she loves again. The only character that seems to be doing anything to improve her situation is Moemi. At least she hasn't given up on Yota and pursues him passionately even though she perhaps doesn't use the best methods. Video Girl Ai is probably a series that has gone on too long but it's still entertaining if frustrating to read. The side story with Natsumi's boyfriend was actually more intriguing than the main storyline. Still an ok read.
MOEMI TITILATES.......2006-10-10
Ai's time in this world is down to about a month. In that time she must get a human to fall in love with her. If she can, she will become human. If she doesn't, her tape will be erased and her existence will cease. Of course, she's in love with Yota but in his conscious mind he's moved on and now he's getting in deeper with Moemi. Unfortunately, his unconscious mind still dwells on Ai, which makes Moemi jealous and causes her to start devising ways to take his mind off Ai. As Ai lives a life on the street, Moemi uses her body to try to win Yota's heart, even as Yota finds out he needs Ai to help him on his first big break in the children's book illustration world.
I'm pretty much sick of Yota by this point in the series. He's become so callous to the girls around him, letting Ai and Natsumi live like vagrants in city parks and alleyways in the cold. Does he think homeless people have it so good as he lives alone in his sprawling palacial residence? Yeah, he tries looking for Ai a bit, but he doesn't try that hard, and this is the guy that went through all sorts of mental and spiritual torture to rescue Ai early in this series. He forced himself to forget about her after she lost her memories but it just seemed too easy back then and now it seems even more ludicrous. No matter how Video Girl Ai ends up, I feel I'm going to be dissatisfied. To me, the strongest part of this series was when it focused on the interactions between Ai and Yota, and that has been missing for many volumes. In Volume 9, the writer went back to this core, but in Volume 10 we go back to the whole Yota/Ai/Moemi conflict with all its resulting stagnation. What a shame. I would have given this 3 stars but Katsura's passionate eroticism and extraordinary art gave it a bit more power. Also, the characters of Ai and Moemi steal the show and give Volume 10 a much needed energy.
AI GETS HER MEMORY BACK.......2006-08-21
In Volume 9 of Video Girl Ai: Cut Scenes, Ai finally gets all her memories back of her love for Yota. She kinda already suspected that in her past life she was in love with him, but now all her suspicions are confirmed and she's in a bind as to what to do with them because Yota is finally realizing his dream of being Moemi's boyfriend. Ai doesn't want to ruin anything that could develop between the two, but not only does she have to fight against her own selfish desires for Yota, her tape is rapidly running out of time. Her creator had given her additional playing time and even said he would make her human IF she could make a man fall in love with her. Perhaps getting to work one-on-one with Yota as she helps him finish a submission for a children's book contest might give her the oppurtunity to grow close to him again.
Volume 9 was one of the more enjoyable installments of this series because we get back to the root conflict that started it all. Namely, the fact that Ai, instead of helping Yota get the girl of his dreams, falls in love with him instead and complicates the whole situation. I always felt a little uncomfortable with the amnesiac Ai and was glad to see her go back to her old self. Without her presence, Yota had become a playboy jerk whose affections were pretty much blowing in the wind. I'm really curious as to how it will end. It's too bad it took about 5 volumes to get back to the main plotline instead of dwelling in shojoesque relationships without any advancement of plot.
DO DREAMS COME TRUE?.......2006-07-07
Volume 8 of Video Girl Ai is called Flashback because Yota plans to replay a scene from his life that he didn't get right the first time. Early on in this series, Yota was alone with his crush Moemi and was going to declare his love for her, but instead he found out that she was in love with his best friend Takashi! Now he's taking her back to the same place, with the same plan to declare his love for her, but this time he's going to get it right! The problem is that nothing has changed. Moemi still cares for Takashi, and even thinks he saved her from getting raped, when it was actually Yota that saved her. There is even some implication that Takashi was actually the one that put her in that situation but the author is not exactly clear since Takashi still hasn't come clean about that night. But most of the girls at school are spreading the rumor it was him that set her up. When Moemi finds out the truth, what will she do? And Ai's life is still ticking away. If she doesn't get a man to fall in love with her, she will be erased. But with Yota's attention fully on Moemi, how is she supposed to make any headway?
To me, Video Girl Ai is a manga that is in a temporary, but hopefully not permanent, holding pattern. The character of Yota has become less interesting the closer he has come to his dream of being in a relationship with Moemi. The fact that he is no longer a nerd called "Dateless", but instead has become a more normal highschooler has decreased the conflict in his character. Now he has to deal with the REALITY of being "normal" and all the boring characteristics that come with that. For braving the depths of Hell a couple of volumes back to save Ai's life, he seems to have made Ai into a third class citizen pretty fast. There's JUST enough story here to keep me interested a little longer, but if Katsura doesn't get the plot moving again and bring some comedy back in, I'll be erasing this series from my reading time.
Customer Reviews:
YOTA FINALLY CHOOSES AI.......2007-03-07
Yota has broken up with Moemi and has decided that it's Ai he loves, or needs, or something. But Ai thinks he just feels sorry for her and doubts his resolve and his motivation and rejects his overtures of love. Meanwhile, her tape is running out and she has yet to "join in the bonds of love" with a human man, whatever these bonds may be. The old Gokaraku clerk has decided to help with the process of making Ai human but he has to have the consent of Yota to proceed with his plans. The reason being that if the plan is carried out, Ai's mysterious creator will most likely want to kill all of them. Is Yota prepared to risk his life for Ai? Is he willing to put his so called love on the line, with death being a possibility?
I have to say I was hugely disappointed by this last volume of the main story arc of Video Girl Ai. I cannot believe that after all these volumes of manga, Yota is still clueless when it comes to his feelings. I could see wavering between Ai and Moemi in Volume 6 or 7, but in the concluding chapter of the series? In the end, Yota and Ai's relationship was one that always bordered on being like the love between two middle school students with no depth or tenderness. It was mostly about selfishness and greed. And a huge lack of communication. Even in the most perfect of worlds I just don't see this couple working out. Yota is too indecisive, too self-analyzing, while Ai is immature, secretly submissive, and weak. Flawed children do not make good lifemates. Another thing that bothered me was the complete lack of explanation regarding the identity of Ai's creator and the other dimension he comes from. Was he a demon, and angel, something else? And what is the purpose of making video girls? None of this is gone into anywhere in the series which is kinda cheap. Video Girl Ai is a series that never lived up to its potential but instead made its own realm of mediocrity. What a shame.
Made me cry. GREAT BOOK!.......2006-03-12
I live for this book and now its all over. If you think I'm a perv for reading this book, well that your fault for not realizing how wonderful this manga is. GO buy the whole seriers. You won't go wrong.
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