TIME MATTERS: GEOLOGY’S LEGACY TO SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT. Michael Leddra. 2010. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 269 pp. Softcover, $64.95.

Geology students and those outside academia should go beyond textbooks and scholarly writings and seek out the popular science shelves of bookshops. This is what Time Matters advocates as a way to understand the personalities and concepts involved in geology’s past, and the book states that many of the popular accounts provide “a very readable way of presenting concepts and ideas that some textbooks often fail to match”. It is further observed that popular books on geology’s history and philosophy appear in spurts. Moreover,...

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