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Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 20,470 ratings — published 2019
House of Suns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 31,817 ratings — published 2008
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 164,479 ratings — published 2015
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
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avg rating 4.00 — 28,465 ratings — published 2022
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 6,368 ratings — published 2022
The Ends of the World (ebook)
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avg rating 4.29 — 5,951 ratings — published 2017
Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
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avg rating 3.97 — 151,939 ratings — published 2000
Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13)
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avg rating 4.48 — 171,724 ratings — published 2010
Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, #11)
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avg rating 4.20 — 145,432 ratings — published 2005
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 21,753 ratings — published 2005
The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)
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avg rating 4.20 — 207,587 ratings — published 1993
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,690 ratings — published 2018
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,309 ratings — published 1998
Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 4,699 ratings — published 1991
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 415,728 ratings — published 2003
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 43,081 ratings — published 2007
Don't Call Me Ishmael! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.39 — 2,879 ratings — published 2006
The Sister of the South (Dragons of Deltora, #4)
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avg rating 4.10 — 5,610 ratings — published 2004
The Silver Door (The Three Doors Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,106 ratings — published 2012
A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 665 ratings — published 2014
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,926 ratings — published 1988
The Norse Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,494 ratings — published 1980
Rowan of Rin (Rowan of Rin, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 7,014 ratings — published 1993
Marrow (Great Ship, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,426 ratings — published 2000
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 48,449 ratings — published 2020
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
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avg rating 3.98 — 607 ratings — published 2019
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 929 ratings — published 2001
Drinks With Dead Poets (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 124 ratings — published
Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 28 ratings — published 2000
Palaeolithic Europe: A Demographic and Social Prehistory (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 2013
European Societies in the Bronze Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published 2000
The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: Society and Culture, 2700–1700 BC (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula: From the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,220,632 ratings — published 2011
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 4.12 — 16 ratings — published 2006
Dinosaur Park (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 28 ratings — published 1989
ghosts of deep time: a sensory invitation to remember what we’ve forgotten (The Ghosts Movement Book 2)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)
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avg rating 3.93 — 159,029 ratings — published 1998
Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next (Quarterly Essay #70)
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avg rating 4.18 — 322 ratings — published 2018
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (Captain Underpants, #9)
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avg rating 4.32 — 7,498 ratings — published 2012
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets (Captain Underpants, #6)
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avg rating 4.21 — 18,613 ratings — published 2003
Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers (Captain Underpants, #10)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,089 ratings — published 2013
The Third Door (The Three Doors Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,760 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Door (The Three Doors Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,089 ratings — published 2011
The Shadowlands (Deltora Shadowlands, #3)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,599 ratings — published 2002
Dragon's Nest (Dragons of Deltora, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 8,165 ratings — published 2003
Orbital (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 119,086 ratings — published 2023
“Unkar Delta at Mile 73
The layers of brick red sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the Dox formation deposited a billion years ago, erode easily, giving the landscape an open, rolling character very different that the narrow, limestone walled canyon upstream, both in lithology and color, fully fitting Van Dyke’s description of “raspberry-red color, tempered with a what-not of mauve, heliotrope, and violet.” Sediments flowing in from the west formed deltas, floodplains, and tidal flats, which indurated into these fine-grained sedimentary rocks thinly laid deposits of a restful sea, lined with shadows as precise as the staves of a musical score, ribboned layers, an elegant alteration of quiet siltings and delicious lappings, crinkled water compressed, solidified, lithified.”
― Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
The layers of brick red sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the Dox formation deposited a billion years ago, erode easily, giving the landscape an open, rolling character very different that the narrow, limestone walled canyon upstream, both in lithology and color, fully fitting Van Dyke’s description of “raspberry-red color, tempered with a what-not of mauve, heliotrope, and violet.” Sediments flowing in from the west formed deltas, floodplains, and tidal flats, which indurated into these fine-grained sedimentary rocks thinly laid deposits of a restful sea, lined with shadows as precise as the staves of a musical score, ribboned layers, an elegant alteration of quiet siltings and delicious lappings, crinkled water compressed, solidified, lithified.”
― Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
“Through the spectacles of geology, terra firms becomes terra mobilis, and we are forced to reconsider our beliefs of what is solid and what is not. Although we attribute to stone great power to hold back time, to refuse its claims (cairns, stone tablets, monuments, statuary), this is true only in relation to our own mutability. Looked at in the context of the bigger geological picture, rock is as vulnerable to change as any other substance.
Above all, geology makes explicit challenges to our understanding of time. It giddies the sense of here-and-now. The imaginative experience of what the writer John McPhee memorably called 'deep time' - the sense of time whose units are not days, hours, minutes or seconds but millions of years or tens of millions of years - crushes the human instant; flattens it to a wafer. Contemplating the immensities of deep time, you face, in a way that is both exquisite and horrifying, the total collapse of your present, compacted to nothingness by the pressures of pasts and futures too extensive to envisage. And it is a physical as well as a cerebral horror, for to acknowledge that the hard rock of a mountain is vulnerable to the attrition of time is of necessity to reflect on the appalling transience of the human body.”
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Above all, geology makes explicit challenges to our understanding of time. It giddies the sense of here-and-now. The imaginative experience of what the writer John McPhee memorably called 'deep time' - the sense of time whose units are not days, hours, minutes or seconds but millions of years or tens of millions of years - crushes the human instant; flattens it to a wafer. Contemplating the immensities of deep time, you face, in a way that is both exquisite and horrifying, the total collapse of your present, compacted to nothingness by the pressures of pasts and futures too extensive to envisage. And it is a physical as well as a cerebral horror, for to acknowledge that the hard rock of a mountain is vulnerable to the attrition of time is of necessity to reflect on the appalling transience of the human body.”
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
