Now in paperback This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oaklands geological history and its impacts on the citys urban present.ampamp34This book has turned me into a newcomer to my own city but has also changed the way I will view any landscape. I can think of few greater gifts than that.ampamp34Jenny Odell author of How to Do Nothingampamp160and Saving Timeampamp34Spending time with Andrew Alden is like giving yourself xray eyes.ampamp34 ampamp8212Roman Mars host and creator of 99 InvisibleBeneath Oaklands streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them rocks roil shift crash and collide in an everchurning seismological saga. In Deep Oakland geologist Andrew Alden excavates the ancient story of Oaklands geologic underbelly and reveals how its silt soil and subterranean sinews are intimately entwined with its human historyampamp8212and future.