<p>This book succeeds in achieving the difficult balance of being relatively straightforward to follow for an engineer with limited background in the subject, whilst being very informative and engaging for more experienced readers who want to update their knowledge and skills in seismic design. Although the main focus of the book is on the behaviour, design and assessment of buildings, it also raises awareness of the wider economic and societal considerations related to earthquake resilience. The book meets the needs of a wide international audience, as there is emphasis on explaining the underlying fundamental concepts without reliance on a specific code of practice. Nonetheless, the basis and procedures of a number of international design standards are presented, discussed and compared, including those from the European, North American, Indian and Chinese seismic codes.</p>

- Ahmed Elghazouli FREng, Professor of Structural Engineering, Imperial College London, UK,

<p>Special features of this edition which will make it particularly valuable to engineering designers are</p>
<ul><li>its timely account of the Eurocodes, now finally becoming published documents and soon to become mandatory in some areas, with which Edmund Booth has been closely involved</li><li>the excellent chapter on conceptual design, setting out some fundamentals which should be thought about while a building’s form and siting are still being developed, and which architects as well as engineers will find illuminating</li><li>a valuable new chapter on the assessment and strengthening of existing buildings, an activity whose importance is already growing in many countries, as we look for ways to protect our urban centres from future earthquake disasters</li><li>an excellent state of the art on seismic isolation, rightly identified by the authors as an idea whose time has come.</li></ul>

- Professor Robin Spence, President, European Association for Earthquake Engineering, Cambridge, UK,

<p>This new edition provides the latest knowledge of earthquake engineering for civil engineering designers, especially those engaged on international projects. The book is a very comprehensive reference, with new sections on non-structural components and sesmic protective technologies.</p>

- Bin Wang, Sichuan University, China,