Books & Arts

Welcome to Books & Arts - the review section of Geoscientist

For reviewers:

Titles available for review are advertised below.  If you are a Fellow of the Society and would like to review one of them for us, please write to the Editor.  You will be invited to keep the book in return for your efforts.

Geoscientist reviews are all 400 words long.

(Please note that titles advertised for review are not available from the Publishing House - unless otherwise stated.)

For publishers:

Geoscientist has a circulation of some 11,000 pcm, and is circulated exclusively to qualified professional Earth scientists worldwide, as well as Friends of the Society who are amateurs with an interest but no degree qualification in Earth sciences.  If you want your book reviewed before this highly targeted readership, please send a review copy to:

TED NIELD

Editor

Books currently available for review by Fellows:

(Fellows of the Society only please!)

• Planetary Surface Processes, Melosh, H.J. (2011), Cambridge.
• Orogenesis - the manking of mountains, by Michael R W Johnson and Simon L Harley.  Cambridge University Press.
• Memories of the Warwickshire Coalfields, Bell, D. (2011), Countryside Books.
• Devon’s Non-Metal Mines: Discovering Devon’s Slate, Culm, Whetstone, Beer Stone, Ball Clay and Lignite mines Edwards, R. (2011),, Halsgrove.
• Lake District Mountain Landforms, Wilson, P. (2011),Scotforth Books.
• Modelling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences, Caers, J (2011),Wiley-Blackwell
• Structural Geology Algorithms: Vectors and Tensors, Cambridge. Allmendinger, R.W., Cardozo, N. & Fisher, D.M. (2011),
• Spatiotemporal Data Analysis Eshel, G. (2012), , Princeton.
• Understanding Earth’s Deep Past: Lessons for our climate future, National Research Council (2011),National Academies Press.
• An Introduction to Geological Structures & Maps (8th Edition) George M. Bennison, Paul A. Olver, Keith A. Moseley Hodder Education ISBN 978-1-444-11212-2
• Continuum Mechanics in the Earth Sciences by William I Newman Cambridge University Press ISBN 978-0-521-56289-8
• The Roadside Geology of Wales, by Jim Talbot and John Cosgrove.  GA Guide #69.
• The Geology of Barcelona: an urban excursion guide, by Wes Gibbons and Teresa Moreno.  GA Guide #70.
• Stratigraphic Paleobiology - Understanding the distribution of fossil taxa in time and space by Mark E Patzkowsky and Steven M Holland.  University of Chicago Press ISBN 978-0-226-64938-2 , 259pp
• Tropical Geomorphology - Avijit Gupta.  Cambridge University Press
• Applications of Palaeontology - techniques and case studies by Robert Wynn Jones.  Cambridge University Press
• Ichnology - organism-stbstrate interactions in space & time by Luis Buatois and M Gabriela Mangano.  Cambridge University Press
• Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy (2nd Edn) by Bruce Hapke.  Cambridge University Press.
• Astrobiology - a brief introduction (2nd Edn) by Kevin W Plaxco and Michael Gross.  Johns Hopkins University Press
• The Global Crysophere - past, present, future.  By Roger Barry and Thian Yew Gan.  Cambridge University Press.
• The Lithosphere - an Interdisciplinary Approach.  By Irina Artemieva.  Cambridge University Press