Geology & the lithosphere

The Weather Makers: The Past & Future Impact of Climate Change

By Tim Flannery

The last 10,000 years have been humanity's day in the sun: we planted the first crops, domesticated animals, and built the first civilisations – and all of this happened not once but many times independently in different parts of the world. But all that is about to change.

Our civilisation is facing its greatest threat – an unprecedented heating of our planet that looks set to destroy the...

Published: 04/10/2005

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781920885847

RRP: $34.95

The Field Guide to New Zealand Geology

By Jocelyn Thornton

This is the first field guide written for the general public and beginners in geology in New Zealand. Now fully revised and updated, it shows travellers in New Zealand something of the tremendous variety of our rocks, minerals and fossils and describes what to look for in many areas where rock formations are prominent. It covers the history of New Zealand from its beginnings on the sea floor some 600...

Published: 29/05/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143202592

RRP: $35.00

A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906

By Simon Winchester

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city, came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselves...

Published: 02/07/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141016344

RRP: $26.95

Dictionary of Geology: Penguin Reference

By Philip Kearey

The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology is the most extensive and authoritative guide to earth sciences available. Covering over 7,700 key terms, it explains not only the core vocabulary of 'the study of the solid earth' but also relevant terms from the related disciplines of astronomy, biology, environmental geoscience, chemistry and physics. The result is a wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary that...

Published: 17/01/2002

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140514940

RRP: $24.95

The Principles of Geology

By Charles Lyell

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to Darwinism...

Published: 03/12/1997

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140435283

RRP: $24.95