'I strongly recommend this book for all engaged in tectonics research, from the newly minted graduate student to the most wrinkled professor. [ ...] it provides the foundational knowledge that would underpin many future research topics in tectonic processes and provides a global context for those working on more focused topics within specific orogenic belts. Thus, this book would be a valuable starting point for virtually any subject that the researcher would want to explore. [ ...] A remarkable achievement. The author has displayed an unparalleled command of a vast, indeed bottomless, literature and has been able to distil the most prescient information into a format that will reach all whose field of research falls under the broad umbrella of tectonics. It will be the first book I pull from my shelf when I want to know about a particular orogenic belt and how it fits into a bigger picture. From a personal point of view, I retired from teaching 5 years ago, with no burning desire to resume. But if I were to rekindle that passion, I would want to teach a graduate course based on this book.' J. Brendan Murphy, Geoscience Canada 'A Tectonic History of the Earth achieves something deceptively difficult: it presents 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution as a coherent, process-driven narrative rather than a catalogue of events. [ ...] Among recent tectonics texts, this volume occupies valuable pedagogical space: more historically comprehensive than Kent Condies Earth as an Evolving Planetary System and more process-focused than regional syntheses. Its greatest virtue is demonstrating, through careful accumulation of evidence and argument, how geologists think about a planet that leaves only fragmentary records of its own transformation.' Gaurav Kumar, Geoscientist
