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| Preface | |
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| The Violent Earth | |
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| Earth Shaking | |
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| Earthquakes: Shake, Rattle, and Roll | |
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| Earthquakes Revisited: Quakes Out of Nowhere | |
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| Tsunamis: Let's Give a Big Wave | |
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| Why the Earth Has Zits | |
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| Volcanoes: In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie | |
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| Volcanoes Again: Smoldering in a Backyard Near You | |
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| The Downside of Downslides | |
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| Landslides: Soil in a Slump | |
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| Ocean and Climate Fears | |
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| The Ocean in Action | |
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| Rip Currents: The Riptides That Bind--and Hurt | |
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| Beach Erosion: There Goes the Neighborhood | |
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| Beach Waste: Down at the Seashore, Picking Sea Syringes | |
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| Ocean Party Animals and Plants | |
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| Jellyfish and Stingrays: Reach Out and Sting Someone | |
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| Other Venomous Animals: Not Quite Love Potion #9 | |
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| Sharks: We Need a Bigger Boat | |
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| Coming Soon to a Climate Near You | |
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| Global Warming: Earth As a Crock-Pot | |
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| Rapid Climate Change: The Great Climatological Houdini | |
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| Weather Wary | |
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| Winds: They Could Blow You Away | |
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| Heat Bursts: Are We Well-Done Yet? | |
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| Downsloping Winds: "Anything Can Happen..." | |
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| Macrobursts: Batten Down the Hatches | |
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| Tornadoes: Welcome to Oz | |
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| Hurricanes: Riders on the Storm | |
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| Dust Storms: The Grapes of Wrath | |
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| Lightning: When Nature Flashes Us | |
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| Lightning Strikes: Truly a Bolt from the Blue | |
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| Ball Lightning: Great Balls of Lightning | |
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| Rain and Snow: Caught in the Storm | |
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| Hail: Rain, Rain, the Hail's All Here | |
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| Snow: Not the Perfect Storm | |
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| Hazardous Space Stuff | |
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| Things to Watch Nearby | |
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| Space Weather: Something Wicked This Way Comes | |
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| Stellar Brightness: Our Sun's Idea of Fun | |
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| Near-Earth Asteroids: Someone's Knocking at the Door | |
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| Comets: What a Tail | |
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| The Oozing Ozone | |
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| Ozone Loss: It's Not Your Father's Tan | |
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| Things to Watch Out There | |
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| Killer Cosmic Clouds: When Interstellar Dust Gets in Your Eyes | |
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| Cosmic Ray Jets: Any Relation to the Jetsons? | |
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| Black Holes: Gobbling Up Everything | |
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| Travel-Time Terrors | |
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| Leaving on a Jet Plane | |
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| Deep Vein Thrombosis: Getting There Is Only Half the Fun | |
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| Disinsection: They Check In, but They Don't Check Out | |
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| Sick "In-Country" | |
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| Insect-Borne Diseases: Dodging the Bites | |
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| Human-Borne Diseases: The Enemy Is Us | |
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| Food and Water: Tainted Temptations | |
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| Backyard Perils | |
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| Things in the Yard | |
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| Trees: Revenge of the Ents | |
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| Rabid Animals: Why Do You Think They Call It Wildlife? | |
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| How Not to Torch the Backyard | |
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| Backyard Burning: Something's Burning | |
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| Barbecuing: Charcoal Burning Everywhere ... | |
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| Wildfires: Bad Burns | |
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| Your Backyard's Little Wildlife | |
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| Ticks: I'm Growing Attached to You | |
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| Mosquitoes: They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere! | |
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| Fire Ants: Not Necessarily Your Typical Picnic Variety | |
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| Body Beware | |
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| It's What's Inside That Counts | |
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| Prions: We're Just Prion Prey | |
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| Bacteria: Nosy Critters | |
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| It's What's Outside That Counts | |
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| SAD: There's No Light When You're SAD | |
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| Influenza: Facing the Flu | |
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| Mutations: Quick-Change Artists | |
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| Drug-Resistant Bacteria: Breeding the Superbug | |
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| Creatures without the Comforts | |
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| Tiny Critters: Mighty Mites | |
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| More Mites: A Natural Skin "Treatment" | |
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| Lice: Keeping Your Head | |
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| Biting Bugs: Got Itch? | |
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| No Place Like Home? | |
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| What's Haunting Your House? | |
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| Pesticides: A Walk on the Wild (Chemical) Side | |
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| Hot Tubs: A Waterworld for Germs | |
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| Lead Poisoning: Leading It Out | |
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| Computers: Why We're Really Sick of Computers | |
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| Kitchen Craziness | |
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| Food Poisoning: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | |
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| Common Household Items: D-Day for Bugs | |
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| Sick of Buildings | |
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| Sick Building Syndrome: House Calls ... Literally | |
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| Carbon Monoxide: Don't Take a Breath | |
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| Radon: Just Like a Scary Movie | |
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| Just When You Thought It Was Safe ... | |
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| ... It All Comes Tumbling Down | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Endnotes and Extras | |
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| Index | |