Holocene book review: William F. Ruddiman Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 224 pp. US$19.95/\\pounds13.95, paperback. ISBN 978-0-691-13398-0.
Holocene book review: Wally Broecker The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 172 pp. US$27.95, \\pounds19.95, hardback. ISBN 978-1-4008-3471-6.
Holocene book review: Treatise on GeomorphologyShroderJohn F (editor-in-chief), Treatise on Geomorphology, 14 vols, San Diego, CA: Academic Press/Elsevier, 2013, 6386 pp. \\pounds2565.00, hardback. ISBN 9780123747396.
Holocene book review: Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa: Physical and Human DimensionsKnightJasperGrabStefan W (eds), Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa: Physical and Human Dimensions. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Holocene book review: Origin of the Dutch Coastal Landscape – Long-Term Landscape Evolution of the Netherlands during the Holocene, Described and Visualized in National, Regional and Local Map SeriesVosPeter C, Origin of the Dutch Coastal Landscape – Long.
Holocene book review: Marten Scheffer Critical Transitions in Nature and Society Princeton and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2009. 384 pp. US$45.00, \\pounds30.95, paperback. ISBN 978-0-691-12204-5.