Following a brief overview of traditional methods, Bozorgnia and Bertero, both affiliated with the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California-Berkeley, detail recent advances in engineering seismology, engineering geology, geotechnical engineering, and engineering characterization of ground motion, presenting recent research findings, design guidelines, and future challenges. Coverage includes geoscience principles needed to define seismic hazards, deterministic and probabilistic methods of analysis, performance-based earthquake engineering, behavior and procedures for different structural systems, and seismic design and analysis of nonstructual elements. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)