The Winters of the world : [electronic resource] earth under the ice ages / edited by Brian S. John.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-253).

Includes index.

Planet Earth and its seasons of cold / Brian John -- Ice ages : a search for reasons / Brian John -- Glaciers and environment / Edward Derbyshire -- The earliest ice ages : Precambrian / Grant Young -- Traces from the desert : Ordovician / Rhodes Fairbridge -- The great ice age : Permo-carboniferous / Brian John -- The present ice age : Cenozoic -- Rhyme, reason and prediction / Brian John.