Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712648059
Category : Nuclear warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The spread of nuclear weapons to unstable third world countries such as Iraq means that despite the dramatic improvement in US/Soviet relations, we are living in a time of unprecedented danger of nuclear war. In 1990, there are still enough nuclear weapons in the world to devastate every city 25 times over.
A Path where No Man Thought
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712648059
Category : Nuclear warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The spread of nuclear weapons to unstable third world countries such as Iraq means that despite the dramatic improvement in US/Soviet relations, we are living in a time of unprecedented danger of nuclear war. In 1990, there are still enough nuclear weapons in the world to devastate every city 25 times over.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712648059
Category : Nuclear warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The spread of nuclear weapons to unstable third world countries such as Iraq means that despite the dramatic improvement in US/Soviet relations, we are living in a time of unprecedented danger of nuclear war. In 1990, there are still enough nuclear weapons in the world to devastate every city 25 times over.
The inflation crisis, and how to resolve it
Author: Henry Hazlitt
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164261
Category : Deflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164261
Category : Deflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Legends of the Earth
Author: Dorothy B. Vitaliano
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The slower geologic processes are represented by myths associated with natural landforms, rocks and minerals, rivers and mountains, and other outstanding features of the landscape. Examples are also given to show some minor ways in which folklore and geology impinge on one another: misconceptions about geologic phenomena, such as earthquakes, which are so prevalent as to constitute a form of modern folklore, and conversely, ideas long considered to be pure folklore which may prove to have some basis in scientific fact. The most dramatic example of geomythology so far discovered is the theory the origin of the lost continent of Atlantis may be found in the Minoan civilization of Crete, which suddenly disappeared from view around 1450 B.C., about the time of a tremendous eruption know to have occurred in the nearby volcano, Santorin. This theory, variously developed by Marinatos and Galanopoulos, is examined in the light of new evidence gathered in Crete by Mrs.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The slower geologic processes are represented by myths associated with natural landforms, rocks and minerals, rivers and mountains, and other outstanding features of the landscape. Examples are also given to show some minor ways in which folklore and geology impinge on one another: misconceptions about geologic phenomena, such as earthquakes, which are so prevalent as to constitute a form of modern folklore, and conversely, ideas long considered to be pure folklore which may prove to have some basis in scientific fact. The most dramatic example of geomythology so far discovered is the theory the origin of the lost continent of Atlantis may be found in the Minoan civilization of Crete, which suddenly disappeared from view around 1450 B.C., about the time of a tremendous eruption know to have occurred in the nearby volcano, Santorin. This theory, variously developed by Marinatos and Galanopoulos, is examined in the light of new evidence gathered in Crete by Mrs.
Circle of the Seasons
Author: Edwin Way Teale
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Trudeau Decade
Author: Rick Butler
Publisher: Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
THIS COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU'S PERFORMANCE FROM 1968 TO 1978 TRACES THE EBB AND FLOW OF PUBLIC FAVOUR IN CANADA AND THE WORLD.
Publisher: Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
THIS COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU'S PERFORMANCE FROM 1968 TO 1978 TRACES THE EBB AND FLOW OF PUBLIC FAVOUR IN CANADA AND THE WORLD.
Buddhism and Its Place in the Mental Life of Mankind
Author: Paul Dahlke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddha (The concept).
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddha (The concept).
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Mighty Gents
Author: Richard Wesley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207566
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
THE STORY: Ten years before the time of the play The Mighty Gents had been a power in the streets of the Newark black ghetto--proud, feared and sure of the promise of the future. But now, at thirty, the glory years are gone, and the few Gents who st
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207566
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
THE STORY: Ten years before the time of the play The Mighty Gents had been a power in the streets of the Newark black ghetto--proud, feared and sure of the promise of the future. But now, at thirty, the glory years are gone, and the few Gents who st
Journal of Francis Buchanan
Author: Francis Buchanan
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120604599
Category : Gaya (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Kept During The Survey Of The District Of Patna & Gaya In 1811-1812.
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120604599
Category : Gaya (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Kept During The Survey Of The District Of Patna & Gaya In 1811-1812.
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
Author: Christopher Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583633
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583633
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
Punch
Author: Richard Daniel Altick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Altick (English, Ohio State U.) systematically explores the first decade of the popular Victorian periodical, especially as it mirrored the interests and world view of its predominantly middle-class readership. He shows how the editorial and pictoral contents blended numerous streams of popular and middlebrow culture into a distinctive style of humor projected against historical evidence from the London Times and other contemporary documents. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Altick (English, Ohio State U.) systematically explores the first decade of the popular Victorian periodical, especially as it mirrored the interests and world view of its predominantly middle-class readership. He shows how the editorial and pictoral contents blended numerous streams of popular and middlebrow culture into a distinctive style of humor projected against historical evidence from the London Times and other contemporary documents. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR