Tells how to select and use modems, telecommunications programs, and information utilities, explains how to set up an electronic bulletin board, and discusses E-mail and file transfers

Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications

Computers & Technology

Dvorak, John

Networking & Cloud Computing

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

Argues that the United States can greatly move ahead by eliminating our addiction to adversarial competition and by emphasizing the teamwork necessary to create an M Form society, like Japan

Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation

Osborne, Adam

Avon/Books

The instant expert's guide to the IBM PCjr (Dvorak instant expert series)

Science & Math

Mathematics

Dell Pub. Co.]

Volcanoes have fascinated-and terrified-people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. In this book, John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early years of volcanology and its "father," Thomas Jaggar. Jaggar was the youngest of five scientists to investigate the explosion of Mount Pelee in Martinique, which leveled the entire city of St. Pierre and killed its entire population in two minutes. This explosion changed science forever, and Jaggar became obsessed with understanding the force of nature that could do this. Falling in love with a widowed schoolteacher who shared his passion, Jaggar devoted his life to studying volcanic activity and the mysteries beneath the earth's surface. From their precarious perch, this dynamic husband and wife duo would discover a way to predict volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, promote geothermal energy, and theorize new ways to study the ocean bottom.

The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Tantor Audio

Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope's death.In Mask of the Sun, acclaimed writer John Dvorak explains the importance of the number 177 and why the ancient Romans thought it was bad to have sexual intercourse during an eclipse (whereas other cultures thought it would be good luck). Even today, pregnant women in Mexico wear safety pins on their underwear during an eclipse. Eclipses are an amazing phenomena-unique to Earth-that have provided the key to much of what we now know and understand about the sun, our moon, gravity, and the workings of the universe.Both entertaining and authoritative, Mask of the Sun reveals the humanism behind the science of both lunar and solar eclipses. With insightful detail and vividly accessible prose, Dvorak provides explanations as to how and why eclipses occur.

Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses

Astronomy & Space Science

The lives of millions will be changed after it breaks, and yet so few people understand it, or even realize it runs through their backyard. Dvorak reveals the San Andreas Fault’s fascinating history―and it’s volatile future.
It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands of people drive across it every day. The San Andreas Fault is everywhere, and primed for a colossal quake. For decades, scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the Earth’s crust is inevitable. In fact, it is a geologic necessity.
The San Andreas fault runs almost the entire length of California, from the redwood forest to the east edge of the Salton Sea. Along the way, it passes through two of the largest urban areas of the country―San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dozens of major highways and interstates cross it. Scores of housing developments have been planted over it. The words “San Andreas” are so familiar today that they have become synonymous with earthquake.
Yet, few people understand the San Andreas or the network of subsidiary faults it has spawned. Some run through Hollywood, others through Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. The Hayward fault slices the football stadium at the University of California in half. Even among scientists, few appreciate that the San Andreas fault is a transient, evolving system that, as seen today, is younger than the Grand Canyon and key to our understanding of earthquakes worldwide. 8 page B&amp;W insert

Earthquake Storms

History

Americas

Pegasus Books

The lives of millions will be changed after it breaks, and yet so few people understand it, or even realize it runs through their backyard. Dvorak reveals the San Andreas Fault’s fascinating history―and its volatile future. It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands of people drive across it every day. The San Andreas Fault is everywhere, and primed for a colossal quake. For decades, scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the Earth’s crust is inevitable. In fact, it is a geologic necessity. The San Andreas fault runs almost the entire length of California, from the redwood forest to the east edge of the Salton Sea. Along the way, it passes through two of the largest urban areas of the country―San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dozens of major highways and interstates cross it. Scores of housing developments have been planted over it. The words “San Andreas” are so familiar today that they have become synonymous with earthquake. Yet, few people understand the San Andreas or the network of subsidiary faults it has spawned. Some run through Hollywood, others through Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. The Hayward fault slices the football stadium at the University of California in half. Even among scientists, few appreciate that the San Andreas fault is a transient, evolving system that, as seen today, is younger than the Grand Canyon and key to our understanding of earthquakes worldwide. 8 page B&amp;W insert

Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault

Ranging from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Mount Pelee in the Caribbean, from Bogoslof and Pavlov in Alaska, to Sakurajima in Japan, and, finally, to the massive volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii―The Last Volcano reveals the incredible journey of a man on a mission to understand the awesome power of volcanic eruptions.
Volcanoes have fascinated―and terrified―people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early scientific study of volcanoes and the life of the man who pioneered the field, Thomas Jaggar.
Educated at Harvard, Jaggar went to the Caribbean after Mount Pelee exploded in 1902, killing more than 26,000 people. Witnessing the destruction and learning about the horrible deaths these people had suffered, Jaggar vowed to dedicate himself to a study of volcanoes. What followed was fifty years of global travel to eruptions in Italy, Alaska, Central America, Japan and the Pacific.
In 1912, he built a small science station at the edge of a lake of molten lava at Kilauea volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, with the goal of solving the mystery of why volcanoes erupt and how they could be predicted. Jaggar found something else at Kilauea: true love.
She was Isabel Maydwell, a widowed school teacher who came to Kilauea to restart her life. For more than twenty ears, she and Jaggar ran the science station, living in a small house at the edge of a high cliff that overlooked the lava lake. Maydwell would quickly becoming one of the world’s most astute observers of volcanic activity.
Mixed with tales of myths and rituals, as well as the author’s own experiences and insight into volcanic activity, The Last Volcano reveals the lure and romance of confronting nature in its most magnificent form―the edge of a volcanic eruption. 8 page B&amp;W image insert

Community & Culture

The&nbsp;incredible story of the creation of a continent--our continent-- from the acclaimed author of&nbsp;The Last Volcano&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mask of the Sun. "Exuberant.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dvorak is a wonderful storyteller [and]&nbsp;challenges the conventional wisdom.&nbsp;This&nbsp;will enrich your everyday personal experiences."--The Wall Street Journal&nbsp; The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives--and the entirety of human history--are mere nanoseconds on this timescale.&nbsp; Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on.&nbsp; From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious:&nbsp;there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise.&nbsp; But what were those forces?&nbsp; And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others?&nbsp; When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift.&nbsp; As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us.&nbsp; But tectonics cannot--and do not--explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape.&nbsp; What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses.&nbsp; A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, this revised edition of&nbsp;John Dvorak's monumental&nbsp;How the Mountains Grew&nbsp;will&nbsp;fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.

How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America

The incredible story of the creation of a continent--our continent-- from the acclaimed author of&nbsp;The Last Volcano&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives--and the entirety of human history--are mere nanoseconds on this timescale.&nbsp; Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on.&nbsp; From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious:&nbsp;there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise.&nbsp; But what were those forces?&nbsp; And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others?&nbsp; When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift.&nbsp; As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us.&nbsp; But tectonics cannot--and do not--explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape.&nbsp; What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses.&nbsp; A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, John Dvorak's&nbsp;How the Mountains Grew&nbsp;will&nbsp;fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.

Earth Sciences

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Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications

Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation

The instant expert's guide to the IBM PCjr (Dvorak instant expert series)

The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury

Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses

Earthquake Storms

Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault

The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury

How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America

How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America