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Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 21,574 ratings — published 2019
House of Suns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 33,250 ratings — published 2008
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 182,317 ratings — published 2015
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
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avg rating 4.00 — 33,166 ratings — published 2022
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 7,058 ratings — published 2022
The Ends of the World (ebook)
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avg rating 4.29 — 6,211 ratings — published 2017
Here (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 17,728 ratings — published 2014
Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
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avg rating 3.97 — 157,041 ratings — published 2000
Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13)
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avg rating 4.48 — 176,908 ratings — published 2010
Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, #11)
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avg rating 4.20 — 150,314 ratings — published 2005
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 22,842 ratings — published 2005
The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)
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avg rating 4.20 — 214,467 ratings — published 1993
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,815 ratings — published 2018
Annals of the Former World (#1-4)
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avg rating 4.37 — 4,401 ratings — published 1998
Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 4,973 ratings — published 1991
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 427,498 ratings — published 2003
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 43,587 ratings — published 2007
Dinosaurs of Darkness: In Search of the Lost Polar World (Life of the Past)
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avg rating 3.92 — 40 ratings — published 2000
A Century of Australian Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2003
Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 4,191 ratings — published 1981
An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life (New Departures in Anthropology)
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avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published
Points of Origin (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 196 ratings — published
On the Calculation of Volume II (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 11,238 ratings — published 2020
The Flintstones, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,320 ratings — published 2017
Australia and Indonesia: Can We Be Friends? (Australian Foreign Affairs #3)
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avg rating 3.77 — 26 ratings — published 2018
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 199 ratings — published
Hellstorm: The Death Of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 342 ratings — published 2010
Shadowgate (Dragons of Deltora, #2)
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avg rating 4.02 — 6,250 ratings — published 2004
So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,610 ratings — published 2018
Secrets of Deltora (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 547 ratings — published 2008
Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo (Crosscurrents)
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avg rating 2.40 — 15 ratings — published
Don't Call Me Ishmael! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 2,974 ratings — published 2006
The Sister of the South (Dragons of Deltora, #4)
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avg rating 4.10 — 5,682 ratings — published 2004
The Silver Door (The Three Doors Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,138 ratings — published 2012
A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 660 ratings — published 2014
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,062 ratings — published 1988
The Norse Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,621 ratings — published 1980
Rowan of Rin (Rowan of Rin, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 7,140 ratings — published 1993
Marrow (Great Ship, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,489 ratings — published 2000
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 52,767 ratings — published 2020
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
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avg rating 3.96 — 641 ratings — published 2019
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 947 ratings — published 2001
Drinks With Dead Poets (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 125 ratings — published
Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 28 ratings — published 2000
Dinosaur Park (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 29 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 — 164,392 ratings — published 1998
Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next (Quarterly Essay #70)
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avg rating 4.19 — 322 ratings — published 2018
“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
“the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time”
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