Books & Arts
Welcome to Books & Arts - the review section of Geoscientist
Geoscientist's Reviews Editor is Dr Martin Degg of Chester University.
Titles available for review are advertised each month in the magazine's print version, and below. If you are a Fellow of the Society and would like to review one of them for us, please contact Martin by email or call him on +44 (0)1244 513173. You will be invited to keep the book in return for your efforts.
(Please note that titles advertised for review are not available from the Geological Society Publishing House - unless otherwise stated.)
Ted Nield, Editor
Books currently up for review by Fellows:
(Fellows of the Society only please!)
November 2011
- Douce, A.P. (2011), Thermodynamics of the Earth and Planets, Cambridge.
- Melosh, H.J. (2011), Planetary Surface Processes, Cambridge.
- Palmer, D. (2011), Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries, Quercus.
- Rider, M. & Kennedy, M. (2011), The Geological Interpretation of Well Logs (3rd Edition), Rider-French.
December/January
- Bell, D. (2011), Memories of the Warwickshire Coalfields, Countryside Books.
- Edwards, R. (2011), Devon’s Non-Metal Mines: Discovering Devon’s Slate, Culm, Whetstone, Beer Stone, Ball Clay and Lignite mines, Halsgrove.
- Jerram, D. (2011), Introducing Volcanology: A guide to hot rocks, Dunedin.
- Wilson, P. (2011), Lake District Mountain Landforms, Scotforth Books.
February 2012
- Caers, J (2011), Modelling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences, Wiley-Blackwell
- Lisle, R J, Brabham, P & Barnes, J (2011), Basic Geological Mapping (5th Ed), Wiley-Blackwell
March 2012
- Allmendinger, R.W., Cardozo, N. & Fisher, D.M. (2011), Structural Geology Algorithms: Vectors and Tensors, Cambridge.
- Duck, R. (2011), This Shrinking Land: Climate change and Britain’s coasts, Dundee University Press.
- Eshel, G. (2012), Spatiotemporal Data Analysis, Princeton.
- National Research Council (2011), Understanding Earth’s Deep Past: Lessons for our climate future, National Academies Press.