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Instructions for reviewers and publishers
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 monthly circulation of c.13,000 copies, 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:
Dr Amy Whitchurch, Editor, Geoscientist, The Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, LONDON W1J 0BG.
Books currently available for review by Fellows
(Fellows of the Society only please!)
- NEW! Multiple Roles of Clays in Radioactive Waste Confinement, by S. Norris, E.A.C. Neeft & M. Van Geet (eds), Geological Society of London SP482 2019, 367 pp. hbk.
- NEW! Crustal Architecture and Evolution of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Orogen, by I. M. Villa & S. Kumar (eds), Geological Society of London SP481 2019, 377 pp. hbk.
- NEW! Subaqueous Mass Movements and their Consequences, by G. Lintern et al. (eds), Geological Society of London SP 477 2019, 609 pp. hbk.
- NEW! Soils of the Past: An introduction to paleopedology (third edition), by Gregory J. Retallack, Wiley Blackwell 2019, 534 pp. pbk.
- NEW! Cowen's History of Life (sixth edition), by Michael J. Benton et al., Wiley Blackwell 2020, 381 pp. pbk.
- NEW! Delving along the Derwent: a history of 200 quarries and the people who worked them, by Ian Thomas et al., Gomer Press 2019, 191 pp. pbk.
- NEW! Maps and Territories: Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel, by Joshua Armstrong, Liverpool University Press 2019, 238 pp. hbk.
- Hydromagmatic Processes and Platinum-Group Element Deposits in Layered Intrusions, by Alan Boudreau, Cambridge University Press 2019, 275 pp. hbk.
- Paleozoic Plays of NW Europe, by A.A. Monaghan et al. (eds), Geological Society of London SP 471 2019, 398 pp. hbk.
- Development of Volcanic Gas Reservoirs: The Theory, Key Technologies and Practice of Hydrocarbon Development, by Qiquan Ran, Dong Ren & Yongjun Wang, Elsevier (Petroleum Industry Press, Gulf Professional Publishing) 2019, 1066 pp. Pbk.
- Volatiles in the Martian Crust, by Justin Filiberto & Susanne P. Schwenzer (eds) Elsevier 2018, 426 pp. pbk.
- Plant Flow Measurement and Control Handbook: Fluid, Solid, Slurry and Multiphase Flow, by Swapan Basu, Elsevier Academic Press 2018, 1288 pp. hbk.
- Subseismic-scale Reservoir Deformation, by M. Ashton, S. J. Dee & O.P. Wennberg (eds), Geological Society of London SP459 2018, 216 pp. hbk.