Subject archive: earth sciences

Below is a list of all book reviews under the subject heading of earth sciences published to date in reverse chronological order. Click here to return to the subject menu or click here to return to the list of all reviews.

  1. The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life
  2. Mysteries of the Deep: How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History
  3. The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet
  4. On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth
  5. The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
  6. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
  7. When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
  8. The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
  9. The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a Schoolteacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
  10. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
  11. Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds
  12. Fire & Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
  13. A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
  14. London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City
  15. Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
  16. Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth
  17. Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet
  18. Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets
  19. The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
  20. The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
  21. Terrestrial Impact Structures: The TanDEM-X Atlas (2-Volume Set)
  22. Volcanotectonics: Understanding the Structure, Deformation and Dynamics of Volcanoes
  23. Volcanoes (Second Edition)
  24. Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More
  25. The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate
  26. End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World
  27. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
  28. Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
  29. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
  30. Origins: How the Earth Made Us
  31. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
  32. Structural Geology (Second Edition)
  33. Essentials of Geology (13th Edition)
  34. When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
  35. Volcanoes: Encounters Through the Ages
  36. The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart
  37. The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
  38. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
  39. The Tectonic Plates are Moving!
  40. Earth History and Palaeogeography
  41. A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
  42. The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It
  43. Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth
  44. Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century
  45. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions