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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Annals of the Former World about Yorker, North, America with the genre: Science & Math, Earth Sciences.
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conversations.value: In 1978 New Yorker magazine staff writer the author set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billions of years. In 1981 he published the first of the four books that would come from his research: <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374516901/${0}"> Basin and Range </a>, a study of the mountainous lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. Two years later came <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374517940/${0}"> In Suspect Terrain </a>, a grand overview of the Appalachian mountain system. In 1986 the author released <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374520658/${0}"> Rising from the Plains </a>, a history of the Rocky Mountains set largely in Wyoming. And in 1993 came <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374523932/${0}"> Assembling California </a>, a survey of the area geologists find to be a laboratory of volcanic and tectonic processes, a place where geology can be watched in the making. Annals of the Former World gathers these four volumes, which the author always conceived of as a whole, to make that epic of the Earth's formation; to it he adds a fifth book, Crossing the Craton , which introduces the continent's ancient core, underlying what is now Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Annals of the Former World gathers these four volumes, which the author always conceived of as a whole, to make that epic of the Earth's formation; to it he adds a fifth book, Crossing the Craton , which introduces the continent's ancient core, underlying what is now Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska. In 1981 he published the first of the four books that would come from his research: <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374516901/${0}"> Basin and Range </a>, a study of the mountainous lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. Two years later came <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374517940/${0}"> In Suspect Terrain </a>, a grand overview of the Appalachian mountain system. In 1986 the author released <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374520658/${0}"> Rising from the Plains </a>, a history of the Rocky Mountains set largely in Wyoming. And in 1993 came <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374523932/${0}"> Assembling California </a>, a survey of the area geologists find to be a laboratory of volcanic and tectonic processes, a place where geology can be watched in the making.In 1978 New Yorker magazine staff writer the author set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billions of years.