(Paperback)
By: Grant Heiken
ISBN: 9780691130385
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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From humble beginnings, Rome became perhaps the greatest intercontinental power in the world. This book demonstrates the important link between the history of Rome and its geologic setting. It contains chapters that are arranged geographically, based on the seven hills, the Tiber floodplain, the ancient creeks that dissected the plateau, and more.
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Somerville
ISBN: 9781804991060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: John J.W. Rogers
ISBN: 9780313355585
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Describes how both slow changes and rapid, violent, ones of the earth have impacted the development of civilizations throughout history. This volume includes a glossary, numerous illustrations, and a bibliography of works useful for further research.
(Paperback)
By: John J.W. Rogers
ISBN: 9781440835926
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Eric R. Force
ISBN: 9781498514293
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In many ways, the records of antiquity tell us that active tectonism helped to mold our cultural heritage. Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations draws from various fields such as tectonics (geology), classics, history, archaeology, and anthropology to support this conclusion.
(Hardback)
By: Eric R. Force
ISBN: 9781498514279
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tectonism is an important part of our cultural makeup. Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations draws from various fields such as tectonics (geology), classics, history, archaeology, and anthropology to support this notion. Its scope is worldwide, though it focuses on the eastern hemisphere, where the evidence is voluminous.
(Paperback)
By: Patrick Nunn
ISBN: 9781399421058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Wallace Broecker
ISBN: 9780691143545
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What were the repercussions of past climate shifts How do we know such shifts occurred This book shows how Earth scientists study ancient ice cores and marine sediments to probe Earth's distant past, and how they blend scientific detective work with the technological advances to try to predict the future.
(Hardback)
By: Herbert Edgar Wright
ISBN: 9780691651026
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Herbert Edgar Wright
ISBN: 9780691624426
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era--the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States. Over eighty Quaternary scientists have contributed to the fifty-five chapters divided into four main parts.
(Hardback)
By: David Bainbridge
ISBN: 9780691269832
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2026
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Anjana Khatwa
ISBN: 9780349128856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A revelatory approach to geology, illuminated with untold stories of humanity's relationship with rock
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By: Anjana Khatwa
ISBN: 9780349128863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A revelatory approach to geology, illuminated with untold stories of humanity's relationship with rock
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By: Nick Davidson
ISBN: 9781788163781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The story of three 19th-century geologists whose fraternal rivalry ended up rewriting the history of our planet.
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
(Hardback)
By: Christopher Somerville
ISBN: 9780857527110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 24th August 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Malcolm Laird
ISBN: 9781927145999
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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This volume is the culmination of a comprehensive survey of New Zealands CretaceousCenozoic strata, begun in 1978, and presents an up-to-date synthesis and interpretation of regional sedimentary information from a variety of sources; the study has been expanded to include large areas of the continental shelf and beyond.
(Hardback)
By: Iain Stewart
ISBN: 9780718187187
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Patrick Nunn
ISBN: 9781472943286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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How much of what became the folk tales of our ancestors was rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and what can they tell us about the future
