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    Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Climate and Society by James B. Elsner and A. Birol Kara

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    In five pages this scientific text is reviewed in terms of the expertise of its authors and the impressive research and statistics they have compiled. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    scientific text authored by two well established researchers in their areas of expertise. The book written by a professor of meteorology and geography at Florida State University and a contractor  for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory of NASA uses historical and scientific studies to assess the hurricane activity and consequences in the North Atlantic while providing the reader with prediction  models, historical data sets, statistics and the "societal vulnerability to hurricanes". Overall, Book News (1999) considers it "of likely interest to meteorologists, climatologists, and economists, as well as decision makers  in government and industry". The text, scientific in nature, contains twenty chapters plus references and an index. The chapters range from the different characteristics and categories of hurricanes to the  description and impact of major hurricanes in the North Atlantic, the Caribbean, those in tropical areas and those which have had significant impact on the U.S. Included also are important  forecasting assessment which would prove useful from meteorological and economic standpoints (Elsner and Kara, 1999). Despite its scientific origins and nature, because the text extends its analysis of hurricanes to  the social and economic impact of hurricanes, Elsner and Kara have extended their intended audience to include those other than scientists. Because of their areas of expertise in the research  fields, both authors are no doubt responsible for the consideration of the intended governmental and decision-making importance the forecasting aspects of the text can provide. While some critics believe  that Elsner and Kara could have included some material on tropical storms, which precede hurricanes, the critics nevertheless agree that Elsner and Karas long (504 pages) and technical text is  considered as "the most complete account and discussion of Atlantic hurricanes that I have encountered" according to Science reviewer Charles J. Neumann (2000, p. 434). Neumann also points out that 

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