From the reviews of the second edition: "This book is very well written and quite enjoyable to read. ... This book can serve both as textbook and as a reference source for wave scattering and stochastic modeling methods. It is well suited for graduate students and researchers in the fields of seismology, geophysics, acoustical engineering ... . This book makes an important addition to any seismologist's bookshelf as a treatise, but also as a reminder of the roughness and multi-scale complexity of the Earth." (Petros Mpogiatzis, Pure and Applied Geophysics, October, 2012)

• Introduction.- Heterogeneity in the Lithosphere.- Phenomenological Approaches to Seismogram Envelopes in short-periods.- Born approximation for Wave Scattering in Random Media.- Attenuation of High-Frequency Seismic Waves.- Synthesis of Three-Component Seismogram Envelopes for Earthquakes Using Scattering Amplitudes from the Born Approximation.- Envelope Synthesis Based on the Radiative Transfer Theory: Multiple Scattering Models.- Parabolic approximation and Envelope Synthesis based on the Markov Approximation. Summary and Epilogue.

From the reviews of the second edition: "This book is very well written and quite enjoyable to read. ... This book can serve both as textbook and as a reference source for wave scattering and stochastic modeling methods. It is well suited for graduate students and researchers in the fields of seismology, geophysics, acoustical engineering ... . This book makes an important addition to any seismologist's bookshelf as a treatise, but also as a reminder of the roughness and multi-scale complexity of the Earth." (Petros Mpogiatzis, Pure and Applied Geophysics, October, 2012)

• Introduction.- Heterogeneity in the Lithosphere.- Phenomenological Approaches to Seismogram Envelopes in short-periods.- Born approximation for Wave Scattering in Random Media.- Attenuation of High-Frequency Seismic Waves.- Synthesis of Three-Component Seismogram Envelopes for Earthquakes Using Scattering Amplitudes from the Born Approximation.- Envelope Synthesis Based on the Radiative Transfer Theory: Multiple Scattering Models.- Parabolic approximation and Envelope Synthesis based on the Markov Approximation. Summary and Epilogue.