Posted on 07/11/2004 9:34:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Pyramids:
An enigma solved
by Joseph Davidovits
online chapter
hardcover
French language edition
I subscribe to this magazine.
Unfortunately, I've discovered that it has 'white supremist' roots. The editor-in-chief, Frank Joseph has a past affilation with the neo-Nazis and the guy (George Kadar) who wrote the very good article in the last issue titled, "The On-Going Saga Of Kennewick Man," is an officer in another of these groups. Be very cautious about what you read in this magazine. BTW, all the 'Burrows Cave' hoopla is phony.
The Vanished Library
by Luciano Canfora
tr by Martin Ryle
Travel in the Ancient World
by Lionel Casson
Quest For The Lost Tribes
Simcha Jacobovici, director
Here's the book:Matt Ridley:Some scientists, he says, believe that chimpanzees do not have a theory of mind, that is, they cannot imagine what another chimp is thinking. But studies show ambiguity. Chimps, we are told, regularly engage in deception. A baby chimp, for example, pretended he was being attacked by an adolescent so his mother would let him suckle her. Baboons, the author tells us, have performed well enough at computer discrimination tasks to show they are capable of abstract reasoning.
Nature via Nurture
by Stan Pinnegar
21.11.2003
In the chapter The Madness of Causes we learn about such mental illnesses as bipolar disorder and, in Blame Mother, schizophrenia. The author makes the sobering point that heritability of schizophrenia is high in Western society, roughly 80 per cent, or about the same as body weight and much more than personality. And did you know that a mouse has 1036 olfactory sensors in its nose?
Nature Via Nurture:
Genes, Experience, and
What Makes Us Human
by Matt Ridley
The Tragic End of the Bronze Age:
A Virus Makes History
by Tom Slattery
The tree rings (worldwide) of that period indicate some type of catastrophe caused a 'dark age' that affected everything. Viruses can't do that.
Homing In On The Red Paint PeopleBuried between 4400 and 3300 B.P., the dead--along with offerings of tools, animal bones, carved animal effigies, and small, white quartz pebbles--were covered in red ochre, earning them the moniker the "Red Paint People."
by Angela M.H. SchusterThe Mystery of the Lost Red Paint PeopleThe origins of the Southern Branch Maritime Archaic people are obscure. Shortly before 6,000 years ago a new stone tool complex appears in southern Labrador. The people who made these tools preferred locally-available cherts and rhyolites to the quartz, quartzite and Ramah chert of the Northern branch people. By about 5,000 or 4,500 years ago these people had become established on the coast of southern Labrador and parts of the central coast... The Southern branch people were the first humans to colonize the Island of Newfoundland.
Maritime Archaic Tradition
Red Paint People:
A Lost American Culture
by Bruce Bourque
Articles from the August issue will be on the PM.Zone in the second week of August.This article suggests that the sudden interest in cold fusion is due to concern about "suitcase H-bombs" which are otherwise impossible to build.
Popular Mechanics
Oops, I answered in irrelevancy, instead of here. Now I shall answer in redundancy:
Yeah, no cars blow up. Chick Flicks.
Mostly doltlike most of the time --- that's intense doltism!
The repeating convenient storyline of conveniently loveless and therefore amicably broken convenient prior love relationships in "Sleepless" and "Mail" which facilitated the true love relationships was a simple tool and signified shallowness in the characters and expediency to the happy ending we all waited too long for.... and both movies neglected all of that nasty relationship development stuff which happens after the big moment of discovery.
Pulp romance fiction. Same formula.
Fini
I've had a long interest in Velikovsky, dating back to the early 1970s. Lately I've been reading the following title, which provides a nice synopsis of "Ages In Chaos", the aspect of V's work that most interests me:
Ages in Chaos
by Immanuel VelikovskyOedipus and Akhnaton
Myth and History
by Immanuel VelikovskyRamses II And His Time
by Immanuel VelikovskyPeoples of the Sea
by Immanuel VelikovskyWorlds In Collision
by Immanuel VelikovskyStargazers and Gravediggers:>
Memoirs to Worlds in Collision
by Immanuel VelikovskyEarth in Upheaval
by Immanuel VelikovskyMankind in Amnesia
by Immanuel Velikovsky
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The Synchronized Chronology:
Rethinking Middle East Antiquity
by Roger Henry
hardcover
Adobe Reader digital version d/l
website
The California Institute for Ancient Studies (very Velikovsky-like)
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Solving the Exodus Mystery
Vol. 1: Discovery of the True Pharaohs
of Joseph, Moses, and the Exodus
by Ted T. Stewart
Thanks!
This is great stuff.
I went to your home page and noted that you are one of the top book review writers -- and I see you are reviewing intersting books.
I'll go and read your reviews. I am also bookmarking this thread. :)
While I am here, may I mention "The Lost Book of Enki,' by Zecharia Sitchin. The Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial God. (Fiction/Mythology) I think it is his latest book. It is written as prose and attempts to portray the key points of his research in a highly condensed chronology covering his entire works -- and what I think is a creative piece of writing, but alas, I fear, one that only a Sitchin fan would enjoy.
Connects some dots, expands the archeological/astro-archeological playing fields, and if nothing else, is great science-fiction. I've read all of the Sitchin material several times and it currently serves as my ancient world view, subject to alteration and modification, of course, as a proper response to the continuing stream of new evidence which confirms or disputes any aspect of the material.
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