What We Are Reading Today: ‘Earthshaking Science’ by Susan Elizabeth Hough

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Updated 02 October 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Earthshaking Science’ by Susan Elizabeth Hough

This is the first book to really make sense of the dizzying array of information that has emerged in recent decades about earthquakes.

Susan Hough, a research seismologist in one of North America’s most active earthquake zones and an expert at communicating this complex science to the public, separates fact from fiction.

She fills in many of the blanks that remained after plate tectonics theory, in the 1960s, first gave us a rough idea of just what earthquakes are about.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Make Your Manuscript Work’ by Laura Portwood-Stacer

Updated 10 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Make Your Manuscript Work’ by Laura Portwood-Stacer

Developmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well.

“Make Your Manuscript Work” offers a practical method for assessing and refining the features of their texts that matter most—argument, evidence, structure, and style.

This guide shows scholarly writers how to identify what’s been holding their writing back and fix it so they can accomplish their publication goals.