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An Introduction to the Earth-Life System. Edited by Charles Cockell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 319 pp. £30.00 (paperback) ISBN 978 0 5217 2953 6
Like many of the students for whom this book was designed I am new to this subject, although I became intrigued by large-scale Earth-life processes after reading Wilkinson (2006). Written for intermediatelevel undergraduate students, An Introduction to the Earth-Life System is presented in a relaxed, sometimes discursive, style helped by the omission of references in the text. The book is divided into eight substantive...