Books currently available for review

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We particularly welcome reviewers from student or early career backgrounds.

• Climate Converts: People Who Changed Their Minds on the Greatest Threat of Our Time, by Jo Huxster (2027) Columbia University Press, 200 pp.
• Below Detection, by Alain Gilbert (2026) Self-published, 277 pp. (Fiction)
• Volcanoes: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Tamie Jovanelly (2026) Oxford University Press, 328 pp.
• This Is Life: A Journey from Inside Your Body to Beyond Earth, by Christophe Galfard (2026) University of Chicago Press, 512 pp.
• Our Planetary Mirror: Earth Science and the Reimagining of Humanity, by Boris Shoshitaishvili (2026) University of Chicago Press, 240 pp.
• Implementing Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste – Input from Research Activities, by Simon Norris et al (2026) Geological Society of London, 383 pp.
• How to Find a Martian: A Fossil Hunter’s Guide to the Red Planet, by Sean McMahon (2027) Oneworld Publications, 352 pp.
• When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance, by Riley Black (2026) St Martin’s Press, 292 pp.
• Inescapable: Facing Up to Forever Chemicals, by Marina Schauffler (2026) Johns Hopkins University Press, 272 pp.
• Are We Ready for Mars?, by Mark Shelhamer (2026) Johns Hopkins University Press, 264 pp.
• Earth’s Flips of State: The Co-Evolution of Life and Planet, by Jonathan Cowie (2026) Oxford University Press, 400 pp.
• The Walking Shore, by Paul Alfred (2026) Self-published, 48 pp. (Fiction)
• Sedimentary Successions of the Arctic Region and their Hydrocarbon Prospectivity, Sergey Drachev et al. (2025) Geological Sociey Memoir 57, 1124 pp.
• Tectonic Geodynamics, by Thorsten Becker and Claudio Faccenna (2025) Princeton University Press, 872 pp.