vi 589 pages, including index. The edges of the boardsare lightly bumped and the first 15 pages very lightly creased, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. "This book unites climate modelling, palaeoceanography and palaeontology to address fundamental events in the climate history of Earth over the past 600 million years. Understanding the `tipping points' that have led to rapid changes in the Earth's climate is vitally important with the realization that humans modify global climate." WILLIAMS, M., HAYWOOD, A. M., GREGORY, F. J. & SCHMIDT, D. N. Deep-time perspectives on climate change: an introduction VAUGHAN, A. P. M. Climate and geology - a Phanerozoic perspective 5 SOHL, L. E. & CHANDLER, M. A. Reconstructing Neoproterozoic palaeoclimates using a combined data/modelling approach VANNIER, J. Early Cambrian origin of complex marine ecosystems ARMSTRONG, H. A. On the cause of the Ordovician glaciation PAGE, A. A., ZALASIEWICZ, J., WILLIAMS, M. & POPOv, L. Were transgressive black shales a negative feedback modulating glacioeustasy in the Early Palaeozoic Icehouse? KIEHL, J. T. Modelling climates of the Late Palaeozoic STEPHENSON, M. H., ANGIOLINI, L. & LENG, M. J. The Early Permian fossil record of Gondwana and its relationship to deglaciation: a review TWITCHETT, R. J. Climate change across the Permian/Triassic boundary SELLWOOD, B. W. & VALDES, P. J. Mesozoic climates PRICE, G. D. & GRIMES, S. T. New approaches for quantifying the Cretaceous terrestrial climate record HART, M. B. Late Cretaceous climates and foraminiferid distributions MARKWICK, P. J. The palaeogeographic and palaeoclimatic significance of climate proxies for data-model comparisons LEAR, C. H. Mg/Ca palaeothermometry: a new window into Cenozoic climate change SLUIJS, A., BOWEN, G. J., BRINKHUIS, H., LOURENS, L. J. & THOMAS, E. The Palaeocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum super greenhouse: biotic and geochemical signatures, age models and mechanisms of global change COXALL, H. K. & PEARSON, P. N. The Eocene-Oligocene Transition PFUHL, H. A. & MCCAVE, I. N. The Oligocene-Miocene boundary - cause and consequence from a Southern Ocean perspective KUCERA, M. & SCHONFELD, J. The origin of modern oceanic foraminiferal faunas and Neogene climate change SCHMIDT, D. N. The closure history of the Central American seaway: evidence from isotopes and fossils to models and molecules HAYWOOD, A. M., VALDES, P. J., HILL, D. J. & WILLIAMS, M. The mid-Pliocene warm period: A test-bed for integrating data and models DOWSETT, H. J. The PRISM palaeoclimate reconstruction and Pliocene sea-surface temperature FAUQUETTE, S., Suc, J.-P., JIMiNEZ-MORENO, G., MICHEELS, A., JOST, A., FAVRE, E., BACHIRI-TAOUFIQ, N., BERTINI, A., CLET-PELLERIN, M., DINIZ, F., FARJANEL, G., FEDDI, N. & ZHENG, Z. Latitudinal climatic gradients in the Western European and Mediterranean regions from the Mid-Miocene (c. 15 Ma) to the Mid-Pliocene (c. 3.5 Ma) as quantified from pollen data JIMENEZ-MORENO, G., POPESCU, S.-M., IVANOV, D. & Suc, J.-P. Neogene flora, vegetation and climate dynamics in southeastern Europe and the northeastern Mediterranean HILL, D. J., HAYWOOD, A. M., HINDMARSH, R. C. A. & VALDES, P. J. Characterizing ice sheets during the Pliocene: evidence from data and models LAWRENCE, K. T., HERBERT, T. D., DEKENS, P. S. & RAVELO, A. C. The application of the alkenone organic proxy to the study of Plio-Pleistocene climate RAVELO, A. C., BILLUPS, K., DEKENS, P. S., HERBERT, T. D. & LAWRENCE, K. T. Onto the ice ages: proxy evidence for the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation.