Petra,

I haven't written anything with KB. We considered doing one paper, but he wanted to try new stuff and I wanted to document how well his older prediction methods worked, so we didn't do it.

The new Amazon search engine that finds people if they're even just mentioned in the text is pretty cool. I found the books by KB that way (and a lot by Vidal Sassoon and Gore Vidal). I can't say any by KB look like good summertime reading. If you're set on one, "Nonlinear Dynamics of the Lithosphere and Earthquake Prediction" is the most related to prediction and just came out last year. Beware:"Written for researchers in geophysics and applied mathematics"

For entertaining seismology, Sue Hough is good and Bolt's 5th edition is what I use in a class for non-scientists, and the new Stein-Wysession book is for an intermediate level. Lay and Wallace is a little more for seismologists, and Peter Shearer explains a lot of the math clearly, and Tromp-Dahlen and Aki-Richards if you love tensor integral equations above all.

John