Author: John Lymington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Something mysterious buried under familiar surroundings, outer space connections, mind control... But this is a simpler story, diluted by heaps of dialogue and character conjecture. Interesting that the narrator sometimes hallucinates, so that he becomes an unreliable witness."--Goodreads
Ten Million Years to Friday
Author: John Lymington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Something mysterious buried under familiar surroundings, outer space connections, mind control... But this is a simpler story, diluted by heaps of dialogue and character conjecture. Interesting that the narrator sometimes hallucinates, so that he becomes an unreliable witness."--Goodreads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"Something mysterious buried under familiar surroundings, outer space connections, mind control... But this is a simpler story, diluted by heaps of dialogue and character conjecture. Interesting that the narrator sometimes hallucinates, so that he becomes an unreliable witness."--Goodreads
A Million Years in a Day
Author: Greg Jenner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125008945X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. In this gloriously entertaining romp through human history, Greg Jenner explores the gradual—and often unexpected—evolution of our daily routines. This is not a story of wars, politics, or great events. Instead, Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins, Egyptian tombs, and Victorian sewers to bring us the most intriguing, surprising, and sometimes downright silly historical nuggets from our past. Drawn from across the world, spanning a million years of humanity, this book is a smorgasbord of historical delights. It is a history of all those things you always wondered about—and many you have never considered. It is the story of your life, one million years in the making.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125008945X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. In this gloriously entertaining romp through human history, Greg Jenner explores the gradual—and often unexpected—evolution of our daily routines. This is not a story of wars, politics, or great events. Instead, Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins, Egyptian tombs, and Victorian sewers to bring us the most intriguing, surprising, and sometimes downright silly historical nuggets from our past. Drawn from across the world, spanning a million years of humanity, this book is a smorgasbord of historical delights. It is a history of all those things you always wondered about—and many you have never considered. It is the story of your life, one million years in the making.
A Million Years of Music
Author: Gary Tomlinson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1935408658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehuman species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1935408658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehuman species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1
Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
A Hundred Million Years and a Day
Author: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Publisher: Gallic Books
ISBN: 1910477915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Described as 'unforgettable' by The Mail on Sunday, A Hundred Million Years and a Day is a pocket-sized epic adventure story of a professor's journey to an Alpine glacier. ‘Powerful’ Sunday Times When he hears a story about a huge dinosaur fossil locked deep inside an Alpine glacier, university professor Stan finds a childhood dream reignited. Whatever it takes, he is determined to find the buried treasure. But Stan is no mountaineer and must rely on the help of old friend Umberto, who brings his eccentric young assistant, Peter, and cautious mountain guide Gio. Time is short: they must complete their expedition before winter sets in. As bonds are forged and tested on the mountainside, and the lines between determination and folly are blurred, the hazardous quest for the Earth’s lost creatures becomes a journey into Stan’s own past. This breathless, heartbreaking epic-in-miniature speaks to the adventurer within us all.
Publisher: Gallic Books
ISBN: 1910477915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Described as 'unforgettable' by The Mail on Sunday, A Hundred Million Years and a Day is a pocket-sized epic adventure story of a professor's journey to an Alpine glacier. ‘Powerful’ Sunday Times When he hears a story about a huge dinosaur fossil locked deep inside an Alpine glacier, university professor Stan finds a childhood dream reignited. Whatever it takes, he is determined to find the buried treasure. But Stan is no mountaineer and must rely on the help of old friend Umberto, who brings his eccentric young assistant, Peter, and cautious mountain guide Gio. Time is short: they must complete their expedition before winter sets in. As bonds are forged and tested on the mountainside, and the lines between determination and folly are blurred, the hazardous quest for the Earth’s lost creatures becomes a journey into Stan’s own past. This breathless, heartbreaking epic-in-miniature speaks to the adventurer within us all.
Supercontinent
Author: Ted Nield
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026599
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Explores the Supercontinent Cycle from the earliest recorded time to the geological discoveries of today including the drifting of the continents and the evolution of dinosaurs.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026599
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Explores the Supercontinent Cycle from the earliest recorded time to the geological discoveries of today including the drifting of the continents and the evolution of dinosaurs.
The Ten Million Year Biscuit
Author: Andrew Howell
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1038304717
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Ten Million Year Biscuit was forged in the Earth's core by the masters of space and time using flour borrowed from Jeppy, the Human Cannonball. Thought to be the perfect biscuit, many adventurers sought the Ten Million Year Biscuit for generations. All of them failed spectacularly. Will Nigel Turnbottom, adventurer extraordinaire, be able to adventure harder than he's ever adventured before and find the meaning of friendship? This book was made for the ten year anniversary of www.jollybiscuit.com and features all the best comic strips and stories posted over the years. If you're looking for goofs, gags, gaffs, waggery, yuks, quips, nutty zingers, whacky hijinks, thigh-slappers, riffs, and/or capers. Then your ten million year search has come to an end!
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1038304717
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Ten Million Year Biscuit was forged in the Earth's core by the masters of space and time using flour borrowed from Jeppy, the Human Cannonball. Thought to be the perfect biscuit, many adventurers sought the Ten Million Year Biscuit for generations. All of them failed spectacularly. Will Nigel Turnbottom, adventurer extraordinaire, be able to adventure harder than he's ever adventured before and find the meaning of friendship? This book was made for the ten year anniversary of www.jollybiscuit.com and features all the best comic strips and stories posted over the years. If you're looking for goofs, gags, gaffs, waggery, yuks, quips, nutty zingers, whacky hijinks, thigh-slappers, riffs, and/or capers. Then your ten million year search has come to an end!
Digging Up Britain
Author: Mike Pitts
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500774811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Britain has long been obsessed with its own history and identity, as an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas: the Romans, Vikings and Normans. The long saga of prehistory is often forgotten. But our understanding of our past is changing. In the last decade, astounding archaeological discoveries have shed new light on those who have gone before us, radically altering the way we think about our history. This book presents ten of the most exciting and surprising of these discoveries. Mike Pitts leads us on a journey through time from the more recent and familiar to the most remote and bizarre, just as archaeologists delving into the earth find themselves moving backwards through the years until they reach the very oldest remnants of the past. At each of these sites we hear from the people who found and recovered these ancient remains, and follow their efforts to understand them. Some are major digs, carried out to record sites before they are covered over by new developments. Others are chance finds, leading to revelations out of proportion to the scale of the original projects. All are extraordinary tales of luck and cutting-edge archaeological science that have produced profound, and often unexpected, insights into peoples lives on these islands between a thousand and a million years ago.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500774811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Britain has long been obsessed with its own history and identity, as an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas: the Romans, Vikings and Normans. The long saga of prehistory is often forgotten. But our understanding of our past is changing. In the last decade, astounding archaeological discoveries have shed new light on those who have gone before us, radically altering the way we think about our history. This book presents ten of the most exciting and surprising of these discoveries. Mike Pitts leads us on a journey through time from the more recent and familiar to the most remote and bizarre, just as archaeologists delving into the earth find themselves moving backwards through the years until they reach the very oldest remnants of the past. At each of these sites we hear from the people who found and recovered these ancient remains, and follow their efforts to understand them. Some are major digs, carried out to record sites before they are covered over by new developments. Others are chance finds, leading to revelations out of proportion to the scale of the original projects. All are extraordinary tales of luck and cutting-edge archaeological science that have produced profound, and often unexpected, insights into peoples lives on these islands between a thousand and a million years ago.
The Blue Economy
Author: Gunter A. Pauli
Publisher: Paradigm Publications
ISBN: 9780912111902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Dr. Gunter Pauli is challenging the green movement he has been so much a part of to do better, to do more. He is the entrepreneur who launched Ecover; those products are probably in many of your homes. He built the largest ecologically-sound factory in the world. His participation in the Club of Rome and the founding of Zero Emissions Research Institute (ZERI) has made an immense contribution to sustainability both in terms of research, public awareness and articulating a visionary direction. He has dedicated himself to teaching and the hands-on implementation of projects that have brought healthy environments, good nutrition, health care and jobs in sustainable commerce to a myriad of places in the world.
Publisher: Paradigm Publications
ISBN: 9780912111902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Dr. Gunter Pauli is challenging the green movement he has been so much a part of to do better, to do more. He is the entrepreneur who launched Ecover; those products are probably in many of your homes. He built the largest ecologically-sound factory in the world. His participation in the Club of Rome and the founding of Zero Emissions Research Institute (ZERI) has made an immense contribution to sustainability both in terms of research, public awareness and articulating a visionary direction. He has dedicated himself to teaching and the hands-on implementation of projects that have brought healthy environments, good nutrition, health care and jobs in sustainable commerce to a myriad of places in the world.
Mammoth
Author: Chris Flynn
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702263931
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils were unearthed, Mammoth leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world. With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, Mammoth scrutinises humanity's role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702263931
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils were unearthed, Mammoth leads us on a funny and fascinating journey from the Pleistocene epoch to nineteenth-century America and beyond, revealing how ideas about science and religion have shaped our world. With our planet on the brink of calamitous climate change, Mammoth scrutinises humanity's role in the destruction of the natural world while also offering a message of hope.