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Maps and Territories: Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel, reviewed by Lars Backstrom
Ericdotes, reviewed by Susan Brown
Glacier: Nature and Culture, reviewed by James Montgomery
Sweden: Lithotectonic Framework, Tectonic Evolution and Mineral Resources, reviewed by Sarah Pipkin
50 Years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics, reviewed by Mark Griffin
Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes and More, reviewed by Lars Backstrom
Applied Concepts in Fractured Reservoirs, reviewed by Tim Needham
Soils of the Past: An Introduction to Palaeopedology (Third Edition), reviewed by Catherine Kenny
Geological Map of the Aar Massif, Tavetsche and Gotthard Nappes, reviewed by David Nowell
Crustal Architecture and Evolution of the Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Orogen, reviewed by R. Arun Prasath
Modern Management in the Global Mining Industry, reviewed by John Sykes
At the Crossroads of Time: How a small Scottish village changed history, reviewed by Gordon Neighbour
Disaster by Choice, reviewed by Brent Wilson
Renewable Energy: A Very Short Introduction, reviewed by Richard Dawe
River to Reservoir, reviewed by Jeremy Joseph
Hydromagmatic Processes and Platinum-Group Element Deposits in Layered Intrusions, reviewed by Chris Hawkesworth
The Himalayan Cryosphere: Past and Present, reviewed by Colin Serridge
Delving along the Derwent: A history of 200 quarries and the people who worked them, reviewed by Peter Gutteridge
Cowen's History of Life: Sixth Edition, reviewed by Gordon Neighbour
Folding and Fracturing of Rocks: 50 Years since the Seminal Textbook of J. G. Ramsay, reviewed by Arthur Tingley
Himalayan Tectonics: A Modern Synthesis, reviewed by Bernard Elgey Leake
Exploring Geoscience Across the Globe, reviewed by Richard Dawe
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