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List Price: £26.99
Our Price: £21.80
Author:
Neil Roberts
By WileyBlackwell
 Difficult to start, but enjoyable overall., 2001-01-15
This is the set book for the Open University S269(Earth and Life) course. It focuses on the ecological and climate changes over the last 10,000 years and the archaeological and scientific evidence for changes in these areas. Even as a second year degree level student, I found the text difficult to read initially as it is full of technical terms I had not met previously, some of which are not covered in the 4 page glossary which was in constant use. I would advise keeping a large dictionary handy to brush up on some of the terms used. Bibliography runs to some 50 pages! Having said that, by chapter 3, I was up to speed on most of the new words and concepts and overall found the book an enjoyable read with the subject well laid out and covered in depth. The book is laid out in chronological order and examines carbon dating, pollen evidence and a variety of other methods of tracking changes in land use and climate over the last 10,000 years, centering on mans involvement in these areas. Worth a read.
List Price: £20.00
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Author:
Iain Stewart
By Century
 excellent read , 2006-08-08
The book reads clearly and is well put together.
Stewarts style flows through the text and I thoroughly recommend this book to go with the TV series (I wish was on DVD).
The manner in which the geology is explained at is set at all levels and the interest you get from what originally you think of as just rocks was good.
List Price: £47.99
Our Price: £35.63
Author:
Frank Press, Raymond Siever
By W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
An excellent, if dated, text, 2000-04-17
This is an excellent book - clearly laid out with a good selection of diagrams. It can be accessed by all levels of student - from sixth-form/upper high-school to postgraduate level. All will find it useful.It's only snag is that it is 14 years old!
List Price: £14.95
Our Price: £11.44
Author:
Charles H. Holland
By Dunedin Academic Press
Also great for non-geologists, 2004-11-01
I am not a geologist, I am just an ordinarily intersted person who likes to understand a little bit more about the landscape. This book is just terrific for explaining why the Irish landscape looks the way it does. It both feeds and stimulates one's curiosity, with great pictures and easily readable and understandable text. Much more intersting than all those banal guidebooks about pubs and craic and all that nonsense - this is the real Ireland. Don't go to Ireland without a copy.
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