Pompeii: Monuments Past and Present  •  A. de Franciscis ARCHAEOLOGY •  2000 •  HARD COVER  • 56 PAGES • COMING IN Ingenious overlay illustrations set this series apart. In this volume, Pompeii is shown first as it looks today and next, via overlaid acetate illustrations, as it looked before the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. We love this method of relating past and present. It's so intuitive! The text is good, too. Published in Italy, the series is distributed in the U.S. by the Getty. (ITL423, $24.95)
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth  •  Maurice Krafft NATURAL HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 175 PAGES • COMING IN A volume in the acclaimed Discoveries series, this lavishly illustrated pocket-size encyclopedia is an overview of volcanoes and volcanology by the great French scientist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1991). It's a history of our understanding of volcanoes, a profile of some of the most famous examples, and an excellent introduction to how they are formed. (GEO06, $12.95)