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A Brief History of Time |
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| Year: | 1998 |
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| Rating: | 90/100 |
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| Author: | Stephen Hawking |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Bantam: |
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| Dimensions: | 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 |
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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton |
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A Dictionary of World Mythology (Oxford Paperback Reference) |
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| Year: | 1986 |
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| Rating: | N/A |
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| Author: | Arthur Cotterell |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Oxford Paperbacks: |
| Language: | |
| Dimensions: | 7.48 x 5.12 x 0.87 |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything |
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| Year: | 2004 |
| Subject: | General science |
| Rating: | 90/100 |
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| Author: | bill bryson |
| Pages: | 686 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Black Swan: |
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| Dimensions: | 7.87 x 4.8 x 1.5 |
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What on earth is Bill Bryson doing writing a book of popular science--A Short History of Almost Everything? Largely, it appears, because this inquisitive, much-travelled writer realised, while flying over the Pacific, that he was entirely ignorant of the processes that created, populated and continue to maintain the vast body of water beneath him. In fact, it dawned on him that "I didn't know the first thing about the only planet I was ever going to live on". The questions multiplied: What is a quark? How can anybody know how much the Earth weighs? How can astrophysicists (or whoever) claim to describe what happened in the first gazillionth of a nanosecond after the Big Bang? Why can't earthquakes be predicted? What makes evolution more plausible than any other theory? In the end, all these boiled down to a single question--how do scientists do science? To this subject Bryson devoted three years of his life, reading books and journals and pestering the people who know (or at least argue about it); and we non-scientists should be pretty grateful to him for passing his findings on to us. Broadly, his investigations deal with seven topics, all of enormous interest and significance: the origins of the universe; the gradual historical discovery of the size and age of the earth (and the beginnings of the awesome notion of deep time); relativity and quantum theory; the present and future threats to life and the planet; the origins and history of life (dinosaurs, mass extinctions and all); and the evolution of man. Within each of these, he looks at the history of the subject, its development into a modern discipline and the frameworks of theory that now support it. This is a pretty broad brief (life, the universe and everything, in fact), and it's a mark of Bryson's skill that he is able to carve a clear path through the thickets of theory and controversy that infest all these disciplines, all the while maintaining a cracking pace and a fairly judicious tone without obvious longueurs or signs of haste. Even readers fairly familiar with some or all of these areas o! f discourse are likely to learn from A Short History. If not, they will at least be amused--the tone throughout is agreeable, mingling genuine awe with a mild facetiousness that often rises to wit. One compelling theme that appears again and again is the utter unpredictability of the universe, despite all that we think we know about it. Nervous page-turners may care to omit the sensational chapters on the possible ways in which it all might end in disaster--Bryson enumerates with cheerful relish the kind of event that makes you want to climb under the bedclothes: undetectable asteroid colliding with the earth; superheated magma chamber erupting in your back garden; ebola carrier getting off a plane in London or New York; the HIV virus mutating to prevent its destruction in the mosquito's digestive system. Indeed, the chief theme of this sprightly book is the miraculous unlikeliness, in a universe ruled by randomness, of stability and equilibrium--of which one result is ourselves and the complex, fragile planet we inhabit. --Robin Davidson |
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Abduction |
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| Year: | 2007 |
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| Rating: | N/A |
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| Author: | John E. Mack |
| Pages: | 464 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: |
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John E. Mack, M.D., has investigated nearly one hundred cases of alien abduction and has conducted hundreds of hours of interviews and treatment. He takes his clients' accounts seriously, and in Abduction he makes clear why he believes their testimony may transform the foundations of human thought as profoundly as did Copernicus's proof that the earth is not the center of the universe. Writing with the authority and insight that have been the hallmarks of his distinguished career as a psychiatrist and writer, Dr. Mack emphasizes his clients' psychological and spiritual transformations, and he illuminates the vast implications of the abduction experience for his understanding of human psychology and of our identity as a species on this planet. Never before has a book on alien abductions included case histories from such a wide cross-section of men and women from a variety of geographic regions and economic and educational levels, who had never met one another or compared their stories. Abduction will persuade every reader with an open mind that these accounts are not hallucinations, not dreams, but real experiences. Throughout Abduction, Dr. Mack focuses especially on the supportive and collaborative relationship between doctor and client. Here are vivid, dramatic, often inspiring stories of people undergoing - and triumphantly coming to understand - the greatest traumas of their lives. In Dr. Mack's retellings, these accounts of alien abduction become human interest stories of stirring emotional power. Eye-opening, provocative, and above all authoritative, Abduction makes an important contribution to the literature on human consciousness.
Described by the Boston Globe as the man "on the front lines of abductee research," Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack has investigated nearly 100 cases of alien abduction and has conducted hundreds of hours of interviews & treatment. This book includes 13 case histories from Mack's files--human interest stories of stirring emotional power, documenting the alien abductions reported by a wide cross-section of people from a variety of geographic regions. Anyone who reads this book with an open mind will be convinced that these accounts are not hallucinations or dreams, but real experiences. |
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Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-Up |
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| Year: | 1989 |
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| Rating: | 80/100 |
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| Author: | Timothy Good |
| Pages: | 16 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Quill: |
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| Dimensions: | 9.25 x 6 x 1.5 |
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I can't say that I agree with everything Good proposes in this book, but he does raise some interesting possibilities about UFOs. Good is not claiming that UFOs are extraterrestrial, but simply that they do exist and that the governments of the world have been hiding evidence of this fact. His study is exhaustive but would still be worth reading just to examine the facsimile copies of confidential and secret documents from the U.S., Canada, and Europe, as well as the controversial MJ-12 documents. |
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Ages in Chaos: A Reconstruction of Ancient History from the Exodus to King Akhnaton (Hebrew translation) |
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| Year: | 1997 |
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| Rating: | 100/100 |
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| Author: | Immanuel Velikovsky |
| Pages: | 209 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | RM Publishers: |
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| Dimensions: | 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.8 |
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This study of the Exodus by Immanuel Velikosvsky is a tremendous work and is deserving of deep consideration. Do not feel it is a playing down of God's power for the Creator of the whole Universe to bring all nature together to produce extraordinary signs and work wonders for His people. Today we call it "mother nature" but it is the God of Creation that controls the universe and blesses His people if they keep His Covenant, and has prophecied that nature will rebel if man lives in sin. Velinkovsky has shown that the 300 missing years of history is a mistake of a historian. By moving Jewish history back 300 years, he is able to relate scripture and Jewish tradition with the tradition of other nations and provide proof of the Exodus as never before. The facts which this author presents for your consideration are tremendous. This is a great work by a mind that is greatly gifted by the Lord. Read it with an open mind and you will discover the greatness of Our God and how personal He is in history. |
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Alien Base:: The Evidence For Extraterrestrial Colonization Of Earth |
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| Year: | 1999 |
| Subject: | |
| Rating: | 70/100 |
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| Author: | Timothy Good |
| Pages: | 419 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Harper Perennial: |
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| Dimensions: | 8.25 x 5.25 x 1 |
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Timothy Good has done a great service to Ufo buffs.
What he has done is to cull through and distill down only the most probable stories from witnesses with high credulity. E.G. doctors, lawyers (ahem...), military officers, scientists, etc. Other witnesses not in this category are well corroborated through thier police reports. These are little known, but highly corroborated accounts from the 40's thru today.
If you're looking for clear, concise, detailed accounts, without all the political frippery and extraneous comment from the " experts ", then this is the book for you. 403 pages of well documented (with footnotes and references) accounts found nowhere else. Good's editorial comment is precise, commonsense, and thankfully, short. Photos disapoint though.
Good gives us the benefit of his vast knowledge and sometimes personal involvement with some of the best known investigators. Cases span the globe from South America, to Europe to the U.S.
A page turner! Hard to put down. Highly recommended! |
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Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience |
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| Year: | 2001 |
| Subject: | |
| Rating: | 80/100 |
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| Author: | colin wilson |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Fromm Intl: |
| Language: | |
| Dimensions: | 8.75 x 5.75 x 1 |
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Alien Dawn describes Colin Wilson's attempt to make sense of a vast body of documented research involving strange and unexplained phenomena, including poltergeists, lake monsters, ancient folklore, time slips, out-of-body experiences, mystical awareness, and psychic travel to other worlds. The result is a vast, complex jigsaw puzzle of encyclopedic dimensions-the most comprehensive bird's-eye view of the subject ever undertaken, with conclusions that are sure to startle the reader. |
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Alien Investigator |
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| Year: | 1999 |
| Subject: | |
| Rating: | 100/100 |
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| Author: | Tony Dodd |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Binding type: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Trafalgar Square: |
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Tony Dodd has written one of the best UFO books out there, in my view. There are a variety of fascinating cases detailed in the book including those from England, America, Iceland, South Africa and other locations. Dodd, a former policeman, has a knack for doing detailed work and his descriptions of the various cases he discusses are thorough, credible, and in-depth. He covers the full gamut of UFO phenomena including sightings, abductions, animal and human mutilation, and other weird aspects. I found a lot of new cases I had never heard of before, and more detail about cases I already knew about like the strange incident of Captain Mantell in the late 40's. I can highly recommend this book to new and old UFO researchers alike. Anyone with a keen interest in the subject will learn something from Dodd's focussed and intensive investigations.
(Dr. Simeon Hein is the author of the OPENING MINDS softcover and audio books, and PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE.) |
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Aliens :the final answer? : a UFO cosmology for the 21st century |
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| Year: | 1995 |
| Subject: | |
| Rating: | 20/100 |
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| Author: | David Barclay |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Binding type: | |
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| Publisher: | Blandford Press: |
| Language: | |
| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 |
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