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Amazon ^ | March 2004 | Anatoly T. Fomenko

[SunkenCiv]

History: Fiction or Science? by Anatoly T. Fomenko

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The Pyramids: An enigma solved by Joseph Davidovits online chapter hardcover French language edition

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[blam]

"This magazine is of uneven quality, but still pretty good, worth subscribing to: "

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Fascinating history of the library. Notes that the library was *not* burned by Julius Caesar, and in fact was around during Roman times, and was finally consigned to the flames by the Moslems:

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The Vanished Library by Luciano Canfora tr by Martin Ryle

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[SunkenCiv]

This is probably my favorite title by Lionel Casson, in any case a fine place to start reading his works. The discussion of the use of pork is worth the price.

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Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson

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[SunkenCiv]

CD Universe had the graphic, many thanks to them. Wish this were on DVD...

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Quest For The Lost Tribes Simcha Jacobovici, director

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[SunkenCiv]

Matt Ridley wrote "Genome". Here's a review of his new one (may be a dead link):

Matt Ridley:
Nature via Nurture
by Stan Pinnegar
21.11.2003

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.

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?

Here's the book:

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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley

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[SunkenCiv]

Virtually met the author on another forum. He uses the conventional pseudochronology of Egypt, and makes a mountain out of a molehill, claiming that the Bronze Age came to an end due to an (unattested) smallpox epidemic. Vanity publisher (so are the other dozen or more titles by the author):

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The Tragic End of the Bronze Age: A Virus Makes History by Tom Slattery

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[blam]

"Virtually met the author on another forum. He uses the conventional pseudochronology of Egypt, and makes a mountain out of a molehill, claiming that the Bronze Age came to an end due to an (unattested) smallpox epidemic. Vanity publisher (so are the other dozen or more titles by the author): "

The tree rings (worldwide) of that period indicate some type of catastrophe caused a 'dark age' that affected everything. Viruses can't do that.

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Yeah, the Burrows Cave "artifacts" are laughably bad hoaxes. This is a natural consequence though of more than a century of the suppression and degradation of the copious evidence for precolumbian navigation in, to, and from the Americas by various maritime peoples, not even beginning with the Maritime Archaic.

Homing In On The Red Paint People
by Angela M.H. Schuster

Buried 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."

The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People

Maritime Archaic Tradition

The 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.

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Red Paint People: A Lost American Culture by Bruce Bourque

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[SunkenCiv]

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.

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Popular Mechanics

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[SunkenCiv]

[reprised from a thread where it wasn't too relevant] I really didn't think "You've Got Mail" was very good at all, paling by comparison with "Sleepless in Seattle". Then I got "When Harry Met Sally" nice and cheap, and realized that "Sleepless" was like a high school play. The Ephron sisters are mostly doltlike most of the time, IMHO.

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[ValerieUSA]

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

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Reply-to names obtained from The Revision of Ancient History - A Perspective and the much newer Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit

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	Ages in Chaos by Immanuel Velikovsky
	Oedipus and Akhnaton Myth and History by Immanuel Velikovsky
	Ramses II And His Time by Immanuel Velikovsky
	Peoples of the Sea by Immanuel Velikovsky
	Worlds In Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
	Stargazers and Gravediggers:> Memoirs to Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
	Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky
	Mankind in Amnesia by Immanuel Velikovsky

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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:

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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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NOT A PING LIST, merely posted to: AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; chilepepper; Eastbound; Lucius Cornelius Sulla; medved; Swordmaker; the_Watchman; VadeRetro; vannrox

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Click the link(s) below to see my review. I wrote it under the name "HolyOlio".

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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

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NOT A PING LIST, merely posted to: FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Blam

[FairOpinion]

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. :)

[Eastbound]

Not sure what the blog rules are, as I never posted on one before. But thanks for the ping. Trust this will end up as a treasure trove for all of us who are still interested in the origins of man and creation in general.

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.

Sorry if this is not appropriate for your blog. In which case, please delete. Thanks again and please keep me on your ping list.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! The way the rankings on Amazon move around suddenly, I have to conclude there is some skullduggery going on. Sometimes it's just a matter of having an ISBN dropped, which cuts off the votes one used to have. I've noticed that my reviews sometimes disappear, and sometimes that's because the title is gone, republished with a new number. In the past, Amazon would recycle the reviews, but they no longer do that conscientiously. Sometimes the disappearances are due to some other problem, such as the action of a pair of authors who objected to my review of a competing title. At least, that's what I heard tell through a coauthor of the competing title. She's a nut though. ;') In any case, I hope my reviews warrant some more "helpful" votes from you and others here on the FR.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! I'll be happy to ping ya when it seems to be warranted.

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Uh-boy. I'd already posted the Stewart title, and forgot.

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I compiled these links for a post in another thread, but repost them here (see also the "in reply to" link):

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