Table of Contents

Preface List of Illustrations Prologue: The Forgotten Ice Age Part I: Ice Age Discovered 1. Louis Agassiz and the Glacial Theory 2. The Triumph of the Glacial Theory 3. Exploring the Ice-Age World Part II: Explaining The Ice Ages 4. The Ice-Age Problem 5. Birth of the Astronomical Theory 6. The Astronomical Theory of James Croll 7. Debate Over Croll's Theory 8. Through Distant Worlds and Times 9. The Milankovitch Controversy 10. The Deep and the Past 11. Pleistocene Temperatures 12. Milankovitch Revival 13. Signal from the Earth 14. Pulsebeat of Climate 15. Pacemaker of the Ice Ages Part III: Ice Ages of the Future 16. The Coming Ice Age Epilogue: The Last Billion Years of Climate Appendix: Chronology of Discovery Suggested Reading Bibliography Index

Reviews

Such a full and interesting treatment of this subject was long overdue.
*New York Times*

An absorbing account of one of the great quests of geologic science.
*Science*