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The Ice People
Rene Barjavel
Manufacturer: William Morrow
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Binding: Hardcover
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My Favorite Book!!.......2007-05-05
My dad gave me this book a few months ago, and I LOVED it!! I was an incredible book. I've recomeded it to all my friends, but I don't think anyone else is going to read it sonce they are not avid readers and we are only in grade nine! But I still anyone who listens that this is the best book ever written. I don't understand why it's not famous and why it is so hard to find...
Beautiful French Science Fiction .......2007-01-16
In "The Ice People", Scientists discover a perfect sphere buried deep in the continent of Antarctica - not in the ice but below the ice in the ground. A major undertaking is commenced...dig to the object. What they find astounds everyone - perfectly preserved humans, a man and a woman; young, healthy, and beautiful, these two are the last people from an advanced civilization 900,000 years ago.
Scientists rush to revive they two from their stasis. The woman comes to first and she begins to tell the story of their lost world. It is a beautiful story, and a heartbreaking one. But, as the man nears revival, chaos ensues and things will never be the same.
Thirteen years ago, on a road trip in the heart of California, a friend told me of this French Science Fiction novel he had read when he was younger called "The Ice People"; this was a book that had stuck with him for years and he lamented that he did not own a copy and had looked for a used copy for years to no avail. One of the purposes of this road trip was to hit used bookstores to find new treasures; this is what prompted his sharing of this book. The very first bookstore we entered ended up having a paperback copy on the shelf! He was astounded and of course bought it in a flash. Later that day, in another bookstore - and after more talking about the book - we came across another copy, and I promptly bought it after all of his influence for the day. I was not disappointed!
Life was perfect.......2004-05-12
This book was the best book I ever read! I read in portuguese and english and both times I realized that life could be perfect. We are able to have a perfect world as the book show us, but we are also kind enough to destroy it. My hope from the book was beliving that life was once perfect!! Great book, great history, great science!
The best book I ever read!!! ASIN: 0688018602.......2002-11-16
I read that book some years ago...I read it in Spanish (Nuit des Temps), so when I was looking for an English version, it was very difficult...Who can belive the name that it has in English? After reading some review I understood The Ice People, must be the book I loved. It was great to find people thinking the same about it.
Now I will tell my best friend to buy so she can read in English. (Of course, I will ask her to let me read it again)
THE BEST FICTION BOOK!!!
The best book I ever read!!!.......2002-11-16
I read that book some years ago...I read it in Spanish (Nuit des Temps), so when I was looking for an English version, it was very difficult...Who can belive the name that it has in English? After reading some review I understood The Ice People, must be the book I loved. It was great to find people thinking the same about it.
Now I will tell my best friend to buy so she can read in English. (Of course, I will ask her to let me read it again)
THE BEST FICTION BOOK!!!
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Little Ugly Duck.......2007-07-04
Charles Hapgood made an outstanding scientific work on Piri Rais map, together with his students and professional map-makers. The conclusion of the book, that there were excellent navigators with sophisticated techniques to set the longitude over 4000 years ago, was difficult to swallow for the established learned culture, which assumes that Progress is a one-way process, from ancient barbarians to ourselves being on the top. This explains in part the lack of reaction of scientifics. But the worst drawback was the enthusiasm of Esotericians and Traditionalists who praised Hapgood on the basis of the Platon's Atlandide tale.
Last but not least, Hapgood developped a theory of the terrestrial crust being subject to brisks slippages and displacements. Althoug A. Einstein approved the idea, the theory of continents drifting was institutionalised and widely accepted. Hapgood was therefore tagged as an outsider amateur, and forgotten.
Very well written book.......2007-06-16
Anyone interested in exploring ancient historical anomalies should absolutely begin with this book. This is NOT a von Daniken-esq hack job written by some pulp fiction fanatic looking to cash in on a popular trend. Hapgood was a professor at Keene State College NH, and he approached the analysis of these maps from a rigorous academic point of view, but presents his findings in an easily readable format. He did an excellent job researching and describing these maps, including the Piri Reis map of South America, and the Oronteus Finaeus map of Antarctica published in 1531 - some 300 years before Antarctica was discovered by western explorers. This latter map even shows the true coastline of Antarctica as it appears under hundreds of feet of ice (something we only recently were capable of verifying circa 1950). Hapgood was one of the first to present hard evidence which challenges the fundamental assumption taught by modern Anthropology that man only recently developed the intelligence to explore the Earth's oceans. In fact, this evidence shows very clearly that humans many thousand years before the Renaissance actively explored and mapped the Earth's oceans well in advance of Columbus or Magellan, with a skill level that easily exceeded that of Columbus as well as all of his contemporaries. (The active exploration of the new world by ancient peoples has since been validated by more recent research, such as the forensic evidence published by Balabanova et. al. showing cocaine and tobacco in dynastic period Egyptian mummies.) The material on the Oronteus Finaeus map alone is well worth the read.
But wait, there's MORE!.......2007-06-08
Yes, Hapgood's book is a great read. But there is a wonderful treasure waiting for those who would like more evidence of these ancient mariners. And on this subject, "the dead yet speak." Cyrus H. Gordon, who passed away in 2001, left us a fine little book in 1971 called Before Columbus. This book provides a very scholarly foundation for the theory that intercontinental trans-oceanic commerce commenced and flourished at times so long ago that Columbus is a relative newcomer. So, if you like Ancient Sea Kings, by all means order yourself a copy of Before Columbus.
Knowledge.......2006-06-26
Still reading the book as part as an old hobby regarding the origin and nature of our world.
This is only one more volume on a subject for which I have read tens of books ranging from Carl Sagan, Louis Powels and Jacques Bergier, Charles Hapgood, Arthur C. Clarke and Asimov, Van Daniken, Huxley,...
As a retired petrophysicist anything to do with our planet is a worthwhile subject for me. The Piris Reis map has long been on my list of item to read more about. I am still looking for subject such as The Epic of Gilgamesh and others.
An extraordinary book.......2006-06-13
Charles H. Hapgood was a professor at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire who used the Piri Re'is map and others as a student project in the early 1960s to examine the origins of ancient maps. The Piri Re'is map was ostensibly a Turkish copy of a copy of a map that showed the new world before Columbus "discovered" it. It appears that Columbus believed that there was a new world to be found precisely because the map already showed it to be there!
What Hapgood discovered astonished both he and his students. Maps such as the Piri Re'is and Oronteus Finaeus maps showed, via a kind reverse engineering, evidence of being drawn using earlier maps that appear to have been composed using spherical geometry, which was not invented until much later than the Greek and Roman era. Hapgood notes that the maps also appear to have been drawn without what is known as the Eratosthenian Error, (a two percent error in the measurement of the earth) so they would appear to be definitively not originally composed by a map maker versed in the Greco-Roman tradition. He also discovered that the coastline of the Antarctic was accurately drawn (this confirmed by the chief of the cartographic section of Westover Air Force Base) at a time when it was not covered with ice. This would place the mapping at the very latest at about 4,000 BC and at the earliest, well beyond the purview of recorded history.
So what does all this mean? It means that there may have been an ancient seafaring people whose origins antedate recorded history, whose navigational skills were very close to those of our own era from a mathematical and geometric perspective. Who were they? Atlanteans, the Chinese, a civilization from the Indus River, Lemurians, Greenlanders, or unknown Antarctic wayfarers? No one knows but as Hapgood notes in his conclusion, "We find what we look for."
Book Description
20,000
B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction.
But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. After the Ice is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.
Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, After the Ice takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginary modern traveler--John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of Prehistoric Times. With Lubbock, readers visit and observe communities and landscapes, experiencing prehistoric life--from aboriginal hunting parties in Tasmania, to the corralling of wild sheep in the central Sahara, to the efforts of the Guila Naquitz people in Oaxaca to combat drought with agricultural innovations.
Part history, part science, part time travel, After the Ice offers an evocative and uniquely compelling portrayal of diverse cultures, lives, and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world.
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Early agriculture and related matters.......2007-08-27
As human beings, our bodies tell of our past as forest and savanna-dwelling primates. However, when living in a modern, industrial society, some of us spend an astonishingly small part of our lives in natural settings, and most of us do so only on weekends for leisure. How did this state come about? One of the most important steps in this direction was the neolithic revolution, the change of human lifestyle away from hunter-gathering towards farming, domesticating plants and animals and living in permanent settlements. How this change came about is the topic of Steven Mithen's book.
In science, there are proven facts and educated speculation. No one can say for sure how the inhabitants of post ice-age Europe acted when they sat around their campfires and how they spent their days. There is, however, archaeological evidence which can allow us educated guesses. Mithen uses a hypothetical time-traveler in order to narrate his educated guesses. He names this time-traveler "John Lubbock", after the Victorian scientists and progressive member of parliament who authored an early book on prehistory. This makes Mithen's book quite entertaining and readable, while it is academically sound at the same time. I can't judge how complete and up-to date his review of meso- and neolithic archeology is, but he makes sure to give room to the arguments of both sides in the case of controversies before he presents his own conclusion on the matter. The book covers the preceding mesolithic times and the neolithic revolution in the middle East, Europe, Asia, greater Australia and Africa. The development, or lack thereof, of agricultural civilizations followed a unique course in all of these places. Sedentaryness, plant and animal domestication and farming did not always occur coincidentally and were by no means irreversible processes. Climate changes were always very important in determining which human lifestyles were possible. With this in mind, Mithen warns of the likely consequences of our current, man-made increase in global temperature.
We are usually first presented with hard evidence from archaeological digs, such as the bones, tools and food scraps found. Then, he lets Lubbock hike around the area at the time of the lives of the people who left these remains. Often Lubbock joins the neolithic men for a meal or an evening around a campfire and observes their health, eating habits and cults. Mithen believes, rightfully so, that archeology should be more than a cataloging of the items found at a site, but a multi-disciplinary attempt at reconstructing early man's life. He describes a lot of fascinating multi-disciplinary science, with archaeologists cooperating with biologists and geologists, in order to gain answers about the biotic and abiotic environment of meso- and neolithic times. He also takes the time to describe what the area where the prehistoric settlements were found looks like, what it feels like to hike around there and how the view enthralled him and likely impressed prehistoric man as well.
Two issues I found particularly interesting: One is the human role in the extinction of large land-mammals such as mammoths - Mithen thinks that although we did not barbecue every single one of them, human hunting together with worsening environmental conditions lead to their demise. The other is the human settlement of the Americas - Mithen first introduces the reader to the Clovis culture and after carefully surveying the evidence concludes that the Clovis people were in fact not the first Americans.
An intellectually enjoyable description of a fascinating and important area at the doorstep of historic times!
Very Good ; 4.5 stars.......2007-07-09
The subtitle of this book is slightly misleading. What Mithen describes is not so much a single history as a series of regional histories. Mithen begins with a reconstruction, to the extent permitted by the archaeological evidence, of human hunter-gatherer life at the peak of the last Ice Age. He then reconstructs the trajectory of human history until the threshold of civilization about 5000 BC. Based on careful analysis of the archaeological data, Mithen describes the probable history of human life in all major regions of the world including Western Asia, Europe, Australia, East Asia, South Asia, and Africa. This is very much also a thoughtful description of major archaeological finds and analyses.
Recurrent themes throughout all of Mithen's historical reconstructions are the role of climactic change as a driving force in human history and human ingenuity in exploiting available natural resources. sometimes with serious long-term consequences. Included in the different sections are very interesting discussions of the origins of agriculture and sedentary life, of the possible role of humans in the destruction of Pleistocene megafauna, and of the changes that set the stage for the emergence of civilization.
Mithen is a clear writer and his coverage of the archaeological literature is excellent. After the Ice has an excellent bibliography. The only problem with this book is that Mithen's dedication to producing careful regional histories tends to obscure what could be a more integrated story of global climate change and human response.
Good science, poor fiction.......2007-04-03
Steven Mithen started off with a good idea: write a book summarizing everything we know about human prehistory in the period from 20,000 BCE to 5,000 BCE. He's certainly the guy to write this book; his previous works have been lucid and highly readable. But he seems to have lost his way.
Dr. Mithen's plan is easily divined after reading just a few chapters. He gathered together all the field reports of all the major digs and selected the most important ones -- perhaps a hundred or so. For each dig, he listed exactly what was discovered. He also prepared a few paragraphs describing the scholars who made the discoveries. But this material lacked human presence. It was cold and technical; he needed something to bring it to life, something that would animate the bones and stones with real people living real lives. So he invented a fictional device in the form of John Lubbock, a modern-day avatar of a Victorian archaeologist. And that's where Dr. Mithen goes off the rails.
The avatar-Lubbock wanders all over the earth during the period under discussion. He encounters each of the sites while it was actually being used. Through Lubbock's eyes, we see the people working, eating, dancing, building their homes, and burying their dead. The concept is sound and, properly executed, it could have achieved its goal of bringing to life our ancient forbears.
Unfortunately, Dr. Mithen muffs the execution of his concept. He can't decide whether the avatar John Lubbock is an unseen ghost witnessing events or an active participant in those events. Most of the time he opts for the former, but occasionally he has John Lubbock pitch in to help the ancients in their daily tasks. He dances and sings with them, eats their food, and even steals their canoe on one occasion. So is he there or isn't he? One never knows. John Lubbock seems capable of hiking vast distances without needing food, but complains when the mosquitos bite too much. He shifts backwards and forwards in time willy-nilly. And sometimes he just watches it go by: "It was not until 9600 BC that the fog had lifted sufficiently for Lubbock to think it worthwhile to leave the cave." What patience Mr. Lubbock must have to wait decades for the fog to lift!
I'm no stickler for realism when fiction is afoot. It doesn't bother me when science fiction characters perform patently impossible deeds, or the time line in a story doesn't quite add up. Hey, fiction isn't simulation, and I'm willing to give an author some leeway if it's necessary to make dramatic sense. But Dr. Mithen's fictional device is a huge distraction, like a child demanding attention while I'm trying to watch a movie.
My second criticism of the book is that it's too long. There are too many sites listed, and they're too similar. I have developed a nervous tic whenever I encounter the word 'scatter', so overused it is. This book would have left readers hungering for more at half its length. Instead, I left the book unfinished; I couldn't bear to read another description of a scatter of stone flakes found amid a circle of postholes with a few graves under the floors and little in the way of grave goods to indicate social hierarchy among the inhabitants.
I'm not about to turn my back on Steven Mithen -- I have greatly enjoyed his other books. Let's just chalk this one up as one of his weaker performances.
After the Ice, was man really so simple?.......2006-12-25
A shallow and rather trite psuedo-scientific review, I find it difficult to believe he skipped over the really huge megalitic sites (Tiahunaco, Baalbek, etc) to focus on our "evolution". Animals and plants are miraculously domesticated -- There is much more to the history of man in the past 20,000 years than this basic repeating of the textbook history that's been taught in schools of Western (Eurocentric)thought for a long time. Some of it is interesting, though. An easy read.
Too long and repetitive.......2006-09-03
I almost always finish books, but I gave up here after 3/4. It's just a string of facts tied loosely together. If it was 1/2 as long and more tightly focused I would have recommended it.
Book Description
It wasn't the diamond as big as the Ritz but it was a pretty big chunk of ice and it got the precocious pranksters of The Mad Scientists' Club entwined in an international intrigue that only the intrepid investigators of Interpol could unravel. Take the seven young mad scientists of Mammoth Falls, stick them in an antiquated blimp bound for the Austrian Alps, along with two "hep" young college girls and a zany professor of mysterious Rumanian origins, and you have the makings of a high-flying fun fest that could only come from the author of The Mad Scientists Club and The Big Kerplop! If you're not already a fan of superbrain Henry Mulligan, dinky Dinky Poore, fat Freddy Muldoon, and the other unpredictable troublemakers that populate this series of mad, mad adventure stories, you will be, once you read the Big Chunk of Ice.
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The Mad Scientists Retire.......2006-08-09
If you enjoyed Bertrand R. Brinley's three previous books in this series: The Mad Scientists' Club, The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, and The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club, then you'll certainly want to read "The Big Chunk Of Ice", lost and unpublished for over 30 years. The boys return in the second novel-length adventure of the Mad Scientists of Mammoth Falls, which is also their last known adventure.
Professor Igor Stratavarious, the world-famous geologist (and borderline nutcase) first introduced in The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club is having trouble recruiting people beyond his entire class (of two students, Angela Angelino and Angelina Angelo) for a month-long summer expedition to study the Pasterzen Glacier in the Austrian Alps so his friend Henry Mulligan talks him into inviting the entire Mad Scientists' Club. Mayor Scragg and the Mammoth Falls Town Council are so enthusiastic about getting our heroes out of town that they pass a resolution offering to pay the expenses of the expedition for an additional two weeks. After some initial difficulties in communicating with the two college girls, who speak "hep" rather than English, they find common ground while playing the game of Geography, a truly pun-ishing contest involving replacing English phrases with sound-alike geographic place names in a sentence: "Hawaii?" instead of "How are you?", etc. (Don't worry; they get MUCH worse!) However, upon arrival in the nearby village of Heiligenblut, the group hear's a legend about a diamond the size of an apple supposedly lost out on the glacier a century before and during their following weeks of research out on the glacier begin to suspect that somebody wants them to leave, dead or alive!
I almost knocked a star off my review of this, my least favorite in the series, but decided to keep it at 5 stars after the clever finish. The problem is certainly not the writing. Mr. Brinley shows improvement with every book, and TBCoI is no exception. His vividly sketched characters and detailed descriptions of places make this tiny spot in the Austrian Alps and its peculiar inhabitants come alive before our eyes. The problem is rather that by this point IMHO Mr. Brinley was starting to forget what made the Mad Scientists stand out in the first place.
First of all, Professor Stratavarious, a minor though important character at the end of The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club, utterly destroys the the atmosphere of scientific realism that has always been a key part of the appeal of these books. Based on a broad Sid Caesar parody of a paranoid smart-aleck of a scientist, Professor Stratavarious continuously spouts such utter if hilarious nonsense that having the boys play his straight men makes them look like fools, particularly when they accept without objection his repeated inversions of the scientific method involving discarding any evidence that doesn't fit your hypothesis!
Second and far worse IMHO, for most of the book the boys are little more than guest stars in their own story. The prime movers of the first three books are reduced to passive passengers for most of this ride, the people things keep happening to rather than the people who make things happen. Even their contribution to solving the central mystery is primarily a matter of dumb luck by their dumbest member; only at the very end do the Mad Scientists of Old swing back into action. Nevertheless, this final book is a must-read if not necessarily a must-have for fans of this series. It's a lot of fun watching our old friends develop a little more (and discover girls!) even if we wish they had more to do and a less obviously unscientific scientist for a tutor.
Stay away.......2006-06-28
As a child, I loved the first book of short stories. When, in my post college years, I found The New Adventures, I loved those too. The Big Kerplop was pretty good. This one, however, should have stayed unpublished. The Professor is irritating, and gives a horrible view of science. The girls are ok, if dated. The boys in the club really don't do much of anything. Where's the cool techie toys (ham radio and so on) that were in the short stories? Where's the adventure? The only sense of wonder in the entire thing is when the boys are finding the passageways in the castle.
So again, give this one a pass. There are reasons it wasn't published 30 years ago. It is the Mad Scientist's Club, so I won't give it only one star, but ...
The Big Chunk of Ice: The Last Known Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club.......2006-03-22
For anyone with young boys this is a must read.Adults will enjoy this book too! Great for all ages!
The long awaited final adventure!.......2005-12-29
After hearing rumors about this book for years, we finally get to read it. I was pleased with the story, and it does indeed show the characters in greater depth as they enjoy their European expedition and try to solve the mystery of the long lost diamond.
I could've done without Angela and Angelina's overdone "hip" slang, as it definitely gets annoying and makes the story seem dated. But that is a minor quibble, and Brinley has crafted a fine tale for all lovers of the Mad Scientists' Club. It's a shame this is the last one we'll see, and I almost didn't want it to end for that very reason.
Thanks to Purple House Press for bringing this one to life.
why doesn't Bertrand Brinley's son write some more adventures?.......2005-12-08
I started the mad scientist's books when I was in 2nd grade. I was greatly excited when I heard there was a "lost" book. I wonder why brinley's son or daughter couldn't write another book for the series.
Customer Reviews:
Unsuitable for the non-specialist.......2006-11-04
I am not qualified to review this book, because it is written in High Academic style. I did manage to learn something about the Neanderthal way of life, but I couldn't make myself finish it. Even as an archaeological and historical enthusiast, I could not derive any pleasure from the contents -- information that may be very well conveyed, but it's dry as a bone. And I usually like bones.
A very detailed overview of Ice-Age Eastern Europe..........2003-03-08
John F. Hoffecker gives us a book about Ice-Age settlement in Eastern Europe. Starting with the Neanderthals and moving on to modern humans, he writes about how both adapted to the cold climates with technology, social organization, language and even the use of, or lack of, symbols.
'Desolate Landscapes' is one of the most detailed, most complete record of archaeological information I have ever found in any book. Primary sources from Russian literature added greatly to the knowledge we already have about Neanderthals and early modern man. Not light reading, but it can be delightful reading if you enjoy books on early humans or history.
Highly scholarly treatment of an amazing tale of survival.......2003-02-07
First of all, it should be clarified that John F. Hoffecker's version of what constitutes "Eastern Europe" is the land between the Carpathian Mountains on the west and the Ural Mountains on the east. (Compare this with my review of "The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe"). The imprecise title may cause disappointment to some readers expecting a wider geographical scope for the book.
While this book can be seen a follow-up to his mentor Richard G. Klein's 1973 work "Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine", Mr. Hoffecker brings to the subject his own unique expertise in the general study of the archeology of people living in cold environments and applies it to the specific case of these people who amazingly managed to survive in this highly inhospitiable environment during the height of the Ice Age.
The book is divided into seven chapters. The first discusses general anthropological principles and theories pertaining to human adaptation and development in cold environments. The second outlines the environmental conditions of the specific area under study in the book.
The next two chapters focus on Neanderthal finds in the area. The following two chapters discuss the replacement of the local Neanderthal population by the Cro-magnons, and the development of their way of life in the cold Loess Steppe environment. The final chapter summarizes the discussion and is followed by an extremely valuable and extensive bibliography, more than half of which consists of non-English (primarily Russian) sources.
In reading this work I was struck by the ingenuity of these people in the ways they adapted to survive (such as cutting "meat freezers" into the permafrost ground to preserve food for leaner months ahead), and felt that they were much more intelligent than we generally credit prehistoric people as having been. Given the same materials and conditions to survive under, I doubt that I could do half as well as they did.
In summary, this book makes an extremely worthy contribution to the dire lack of knowledge about this subject available in English. The author makes extensive use of the work of Russian and Ukrainian archeologists, as well as knowledge gained from his own participation in digs in the area and access to collections of finds previously closed to Western scholars during the Soviet era.
My only reason for giving this book 4 stars instead of 5 is due to some disappointment with the illustrations in the book. All of them are merely reproductions of drawings of artifacts from earlier Soviet-era publications. With his access to the jealously-guarded collections Mr. Hoffecker has written of, it would seem to have been desirable to include new photographs of at least some of these artifacts which have never been seen by Western eyes.
It is hoped that this oversight can be remedied in the future by some sort of companion volume which focuses more on providing a visual record of the artifacts and sites in question to supplement the excellent information the author has provided in the present work.
Book Description
This volume provides an up-to-date summary of important new discoveries from Northeast Asia and North America that are changing perceptions about the origin of the First Americans. Even though the peopling of the Americas has been the focus of scientific investigations for more than half a century, there is still no definitive evidence that will allow specialists to say when the First Americans initially arrived or who they were.
The nineteen papers collected here provide regional archaeological syntheses and address such topics as ice marginal dynamics, the impact of plant nutrients in glacial margins, and periglacial ecology of large mammals. The concluding chapter discusses conceptual frameworks used to explain the peopling of the Americas.
This volume provides an up-to-date summary of important new discoveries earlier than ten thousand years old from Northeast Asia and North America that are changing our perceptions about the origin of the First Americans. It offers a detailed compendium of late-Pleistocene Paleoamerican archaeological records that can serve as a foundation of existing knowledge in this field and for creating the next generation of models that seek to explain the peopling of the Americas.
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Review of "Ice Age People of North America ...".......2000-06-30
This book is an absolute must read for scientists and laymen interested in the peopling of North America. It contains up-to-date articles by the world's experts in ice age archeology and the complex conditions that lead to the early population of the Americas. The book is well illustrated and summarizes much of the most recent data available on this subject. The articles have been written clearly and concisely. If you are curious about the Paleo-Indians who first settled the Americas, how they got here, and why they came, then you must read this book. As a researcher interested in this subject, I find this book indispensible.
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Andrew, Judy, and Thudd have escaped the dinosaurs only to find themselves surrounded by the woolly mammoths of the Ice Age! Can they locate their lost Uncle Al and travel back to their own time before the evil Dr. Kron-Tox puts his nefarious plan into action?
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In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin.
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Customer Reviews:
Very bad.......2007-08-19
This book is horrible. The writing is badly done, and it is so drawn out and boring. It felt like one hour to read one chapter it was so bad.
Black Ice.......2005-09-08
This review is for the students. The title of the book is Black Ice and the author of the book is Lorene Cary. To me I say this book was very interesting. The reason why was interesting, because it talked about how blacks and whites used to be segregated. They were both segregated and both races were treated differently. For example, the whites had better facilities then the blacks. That is why I thought the novel was interesting, but others who might have read this book over the summer maybe they did not think this book was as interesting. Therefore, I say this book is not made for everyone to read the masterpiece, just because one person may like the book does not mean that everyone likes the story. If someone who has not yet read the novel but would like to it would be better if they asked someone who has already read the book if the text would be a good novel for them to read or not to read. The student who has not yet read the publication would need to know what the text is about so they can determine if they would like to read the novel or not read it.
The students who may like to read about how people different races are treated differently. They might like to read this novel to learn more about all of their backgrounds.
PEER REVIEW.......2005-09-07
Dear peer,
The first thing that you need to know about Black Ice is the author which is Lorene Gary. I liked this book because I learned that you can make mistakes of doing drugs, but you can quit just in time to have a better future.
This book is about a girl named Libby; she went to a boarding school at St. Paul's High
School. She once went to a forest to smoke weed and pot with a group of friends. Also in this text Libby was forced to have relationship with this boy. He gave Libby a necklace of engagement, because he really liked her a lot. But Libby did not like him, so she threw the necklace away and Libby's mom picked it up and she wore it on her neck.
This story is short in length, but difficult to read. It was difficult because, a lot of event happens in every chapter and you have to read it carefully so that you could know what is happening.
My opinion about this text is that it is very interesting and it kept me entertained while I was reading the story. That is my opinion and the reason I think this book is very interesting because, I like reading Auto-Biographies. I really enjoyed reading this publication about Libby life.
Thank you peer for taking your time and reading this essay. I hope you make your decision and read this book. So that you could know everything that happens in this master pieace.
Black Ice Review.......2005-09-07
The author of Black Ice is Lorene Cary. This book is mostly about racism, and a young girl named Lorene being highly educated] and working with whites in a restaurant. I think anybody older than twelve and up will enjoy this text; Black Ice was mostly talking about Lorene's childhood.
This book was quiet interesting. In order to see if a book is going to be good, read the reference page. If its interesting then read the first page. If you not, ask for assistance.
This novel will be a good book for fifth graders. It will help them know more about the past between blacks, and whites. It will help increase your vocabulary, and give you more history out of the story. By a chance, you will probably enjoy reading Lorene Cary's autobiography of her childhood life.
Intresting Book Review.......2005-09-07
The book Black Ice was written by Lorene Cary. The book is an autobiography, and most of the book is about the author's experiences at St. Paul's Boarding School. Some of it is about her experiences outside of the school. St. Paul's changed Lorene's life. Black Ice has a lot of drama in all of the chapters. The author moves from Yeadon High School in Philadelphia to St. Paul's Boarding School in New Hampshire. Lorene thinks she can walk into the school and expect to get all A's, but she finds out just how challenging St.Paul's. She finds this out by failing calculus which is a two- year course, and she couldn't take the pressure. She failed both years of the course. Lorene had a tutor that was catching her up in class, but she still far behind in calculus. Lorene passed all of her other classes except calculus. Lorene also learned to always watch your back. She was a waitress at a restaurant which the cooks played pranks on the waitresses like switching the orders and undercooking the food. The cooks were mean to her at the restaurant. Lorene asked one of the cooks to get her some sticks of butter, and the cook says no. Lorene goes into the freezer herself to get butter, and the same cook follows her into the freezer. He locks the freezer door with both of them inside. Lorene threatens the cook she will scream if he doesn't let her out of the freezer. The cook holds her arms with one of his hands, and he takes his other hand and drags it down her whole body. The cook unlocks the freezer door, and he lets Lorene go. Lorene tells the owner of the restaurant about the incident the next day, and the cook was fired.
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- The Light at the End of the World
- I had trouble putting it down!!
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The Light at the End of the World
Lorraine Dopson
Manufacturer: 1st Impression Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0971212309 |
Book Description
"We danced in the night until we became the night, our feet kicking up stars." Thistle's words could have been spoken by any of those around her, the People of the Mother, a peaceful folk roaming Europe's windswept plains. For this is the time of the Great Mother, a primal period in which humans experience themselves as part of a group, not separate individuals. But around 10,000 B.C. some among them begin to sense a warning of change. Thought Holder can no longer answer their questions. Mad Eda, the West Woman, tells of strange sicknesses and storms. Tenja the Starwatcher is torn from her dreams by images of a broken sky. Konya the Mapmaker stumbles into camp on a quest for the highest peaks. Though no more than a child, Thistle ponders her elder's word and ways. Puzzling images soon come to her as well, forcing her to set out on a journey for the truth. Her path takes her to the camp of the Arn, yellow-haired giants with eyes like the sea, then leads her through loss and loneliness to the terrifying realization that will change her life forever.
Customer Reviews:
EXCELLENT BOOK.......2004-04-02
This is a wonderful, welll-written story. As a result of her extensive scientific research, astute interpretation of legends and her understanding of the human consciousness in the late Paleolithic Dr. Dopson offers a detailed portrayal of life in Europe as it probably was before the catastrophe of about 10,000 B.C. I highly recommend "The Light at the End of the World" for it will appeal to readers on many levels.
Shirley Andrews is the author of "Atlantis: Insights From a Lost Civilization" and "Lemuria and Atlantis: Studying the Past to Survive the Future."
Outstanding book.......2003-04-26
I found "Light" an extremely interesting book that kept my attention throughout. Writing about a phase in our world's history, of which there are only cave drawings, provides an excellent setting for the book, as it gives us an insight of what life was probably like as our ancestors were not only surviving, but also evolving.
A highly recommended book for anyone who likes "extremely" ancient history and a love to learn more about what it was like to live in a culture and climate that was in constant change.
This book could be set to music -.......2003-03-23
The minute you sit down and start this book, you can slip into the story. Though the setting is farther back than I've ever even dared to imagine, it grounded me to look around and think more about the possibility of what eternity is. To me it didn't undermine what I believe the story of creation to be; it only has expanded it's possibilities and helped me to realize the unlimited power our awesome Creator has and is. Read it with friends! Talk about it!
The Light at the End of the World.......2003-03-22
What could a woman in the 21st Century learn from another female who lived over 10,000 years ago? Perhaps more than you might suppose. Lorraine Dopson has captured the heart and spirit of modern day woman in a compelling story of adventure of a spirited female who lived in a tribal community before recorded time began. This well-written novel is a must-read for those who yearn to imagine their earliest beginnings.
I had trouble putting it down!!.......2003-02-12
Dr. Dopson took my hand and showed me a time long ago through the eyes of a girl. Thanks to Dr. Dopson's imagination sparked by evidence of what happened so long ago, I saw another world... different yet familiar. Perhaps the old ones still call out their stories to ones willing to listen!
I recommend it!!
Average customer rating:
- Intresting but not very recommendable for Hip Hop Fans
- Surprising read
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Ice Cube: Attitude
Joel McIver
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Intresting but not very recommendable for Hip Hop Fans.......2003-09-15
Ice Cube "Attitude" is a quiet well depiction of Ice Cube's
way to becoming one of the world's greatest rappers and black artists in general. It's well written and an intresting read for Ice Cube fans that just wanna know about Ice Cube's life. Yet it's not very suitable Hip Hop fans, because on the one hand the Author tries to involve Hip Hop culture in his book by depicting some facts about Hip Hop culture in order to show its significance to the life of Ice Cube and his development, which would be a good thing to do in a book about Ice Cube, but on the other hand it seems as if the author doesn't really know anything about Hip Hop culture as well as about some bands, which had a certain significance to Ice Cube's story as a rapper, that are mentioned in is book, e.g. the author says Cypress Hill is a band form the East Coast!
Don't get me wrong, its a very intresting book about the person Ice Cube but the author shouldn't try to "explain" several circumstances in Hip Hop culture itself.
Surprising read.......2003-03-03
Not being a fan of rap in any way, shape or form I opened this book w/ a pretty closed mind. As I turned the pages, I found Ice Cube to be much more than just a rapper. The author does an
excellent job of portraying the man's life not only in regards to his music but his work as an actor, writer & director. Through Mr. McGiver's words, I discovered what a hard working, determined & intelligent man Ice Cube is. This is a great source of information for Cube fans & a good read even for those who don't care for his music. Well done Mr. McGiver! This book was interesting enough to keep my attention despite the fact that I had absolutely no interest in the man before I turned the 1st page.
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