Builders of Alaska: The Russian Governors, 1818-1867 (Alaska History)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture (The Great Civilizations)

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Islam Culture

The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture (The Great Civilizations)

Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Binding: Paperback

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Islam Culture.......2005-07-10

Same book with several different titles: "The World of Islam" published in Great Britian by Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1976; then "Islam and the Arab World published in NYC by Alfred Knopf Inc., 1976; and perhaps a third issue w/ISBN#0394407113; and then 1984 or so a paperback issue. Big large-size book with many photographs and articles. Edited by Bernard Lewis; Chapter texts by: Bernard Lewis, Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Fritz Meier, Charles Pellat, A. Shiloah, Edmund Bosworth, Emilio Garcia Gomez, Roger M. Savory, Norman Itzkowitz, S. A. A. Rizvi, & Elie Kedourie. Chapter topics:The Faith and the Faithful: the lands and peoples of Islam; (The five pillars of Islam, belief, opinion, and toleration, the rule of law, etc.); the Man-Made Setting: Islamic art and architecture Arabic script, rejection of sculpture, The Mosque: origins & Meaning, etc.); Cities and Citizens: The Growth and culture of urban Islam; The Mystic Path: The Sufi tradition; Jewellers with words: The Heritage of Islamic literature; The Dimensions of Sound: Islamic music, philosophy, theory and practice; The Scientific Enterprise, Islamic contributions to the development of science; Armies of the Prophet, Strategy, tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare; Moorish Spain: The golden age of Cordoba and Granada; Land of the Lion and the Sun: The Flowering of Iranian civilization; the Ottoman Empire: The rise and fall of Turkish domination; Muslim India: From the coming of Islam to Independence; Islam Today: Problems and prospects of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Islam and the Arab World Faith * People * Culture

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Islam and the Arab World Faith * People * Culture
Lewis Bernard
Manufacturer: Alfred a . Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LEVWW0

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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture
Bernard Lewis
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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture
Bernard Lewis; Editor; Texts And Eliekedourie S.A.A. Rizvi Norman Itz
Manufacturer: ALFRED A. KNOPF
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1199794198

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The Islam World

Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture
Bernard Lewis
Manufacturer: Random House Inc (T)
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Islam World.......2005-04-10

Big large-size book with many photographs and articles. Edited by Bernard Lewis; Chapter texts by: Bernard Lewis, Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Fritz Meier, Charles Pellat,
A. Shiloah, Edmund Bosworth, Emilio Garcia Gomez, Roger M. Savory, Norman Itzkowitz, S. A. A. Rizvi, & Elie Kedourie. Chapter topics:The Faith and the Faithful: the lands and peoples of Islam; (The five pillars of Islam, belief, opinion, and toleration, the rule of law, etc.); the Man-Made Setting: Islamic art and architecture Arabic script, rejection of sculpture, The Mosque: origins & Meaning, etc.); Cities and Citizens: The Growth and culture of urban Islam; The Mystic Path: The Sufi tradition; Jewellers with words: The Heritage of Islamic literature; The Dimensions of Sound: Islamic music, philosophy, theory and practice; The Scientific Enterprise, Islamic contributions to the development of science; Armies of the Prophet, Strategy, tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare; Moorish Spain: The golden age of Cordoba and Granada; Land of the Lion and the Sun: The Flowering of Iranian civilization; the Ottoman Empire: The rise and fall of Turkish domination; Muslim India: From the coming of Islam to Independence; Islam Today: Problems and prospects of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture
Bernard Lewis; Richard Ettinghausen; Oleg Grabar; Fritz Meier; Charles Pellat; A. Shiloah; A
Manufacturer: AMERICAN HERITAGE
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OL8SF4

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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture.
Bernard Lewis
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf / American Heritage
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Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture.
Bernard (ed) Lewis
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World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture.
Bernard Lewis
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The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery
Peter and Highfield, Roger Coveny
Manufacturer: Fawcett Columbine
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Both accesssible to the public and interesting

Order from chaos...

Makes You Think

what happened to my other review?

Chaotic fun!

The arrow of time: A voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery
Peter Coveney
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ASIN: 1852271973

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In our century, the subject of time has become an area of serious inquiry for science. Theories that contain time as a simple quantity form the basis of our understanding of many scientific disciplines, yet the debate rages on: why does there seem to be a direction to time, an arrow of time pointing from past to future?

In The Arrow of Time, a major bestseller in England, Dr. Peter Coveney, a research scientist, and award-winning journalist Dr. Roger Highfield, demonstrate that the commonsense view of time agrees with the most advanced scientific theory. Time does in fact move like an arrow, shooting forward into what is genuinely unknown, leaving the past immutably behind. The authors make their case by exploring three centuries of science, offering bold reinterpretations of Newton's mechanics, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and advancing the insights of James Gleick's Chaos.

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Both accesssible to the public and interesting.......2007-04-29

I am fascinated by this subject and read much on it. The question is why does time go forward from the past to the future and not in the reverse direction. Our physics equations run as well in both directions and yet in life, we know that time runs only forward. We have no answer.

This book conclusion is that better mathematics will solve the answer. Something I doubt.

Anyway this book presents the facts to the reader in an easy to read format.

Order from chaos..........2003-11-04

I just finished reading the book "The Arrow of Time -- The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mystery" by Peter Coveney & Roger Highfield (ISBN 0-00-654462-2). It was quite the slog. I also found it someone too gushy about certain people's work while dissin' the work of others. It also tended to ramble and was often unfocussed in its attempt to communicate -- it really seemed like they were more interested in making sure that all the great research they did got into the book than getting to the point. It was also a mix of historical anecdotes and information on the actual topic at hand, again, like they really, really wanted to make sure that everything they found out made it into the book. The book would have benefitted greatly from a good editor. For the most part, it didn't really help me understand any of the concepts they were on about (either I knew them already and their explanations didn't add to my knowledge, their explanations were muddled, or they really didn't have any answers on certain topics and just presented a series of disconnected "facts" and hoped that the reader could make sense out of what it meant). But the one area where the book really did further my knowledge and understanding was in its explanation of "chaos theory" and its application to the Second Law of Thermodynamics to predict that as open systems in far-from-equilibrium states ran their course, that order could spontaneously emerge. This phenomenon, of statistical (almost Heisenbergian uncertainty) behaviour in classical systems (systems as simple as two or three billiard balls on a perfect, frictionless, pool table with perfect bumpers), demonstrates that time-reversability can only exist for systems that are stupidly simple (quantum physics, Newtonian mechanics, relativity, etc.), and that as soon as you have any form of complexity, the predictive power of these theories has to be done statistically and is not purely deterministic any more. I guess what I got from the book is an appreciation for all the foofera about chaos and complexity theories... something that had me somewhat puzzled before. I do think I can apply these ideas to the work I'm doing, so it wasn't a waste of time, and it did put me to sleep very quickly on those nights where I was tossing and turning.

Makes You Think.......2003-09-30

In the acknowledgements we're told that the authors are seeking to bring the latest thinking on the arrow of time to a general audience and I would have to say they've generally succeeded in doing so. While some of the concepts may be challenging to some readers, I think they reach their goal of readability for a non-scientific readership. From the outset, they get right to the heart of their subject. They explain, "Uni-directional time, in fact, comes to appear as simply an illusion created in our minds. Frequently scientists who investigate this problem refer to our everyday sense of the flow of time, rather sneeringly as 'psychological time' or 'subjective time'" (p. 23). Contributions of the various cultures and individual scientists that have shaped our perception of time is traced chronologically (isn't that ironic) in this book. This book helps a thinker to question various assumptions and ponder if there is really a separation between past, present, and future.

what happened to my other review?.......2002-01-25

I thought it was a good read. I disagree with the conclusion. But How can I demonstrate reversibility...? Oh well. A good book to read and well documented in bibliography,history, and notes. I give it a Brain's Up.

Chaotic fun!.......2002-01-25

I agree with the other reviewers. It takes a little bit of science background to understand all the terms ...but I really enjoyed this book. I disagree with the conclusions. But it was well written. (After all how can I demonstrate backward time? they got me there!)

Dierson

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THE ARROW OF TIME: A VOYAGE THROUGH SCIENCE TO SOLVE TIME'S GREATEST MYSTERY.
Peter and Roger Highfield. Coveney
Manufacturer: NY, Fawcett, 1991. 378 pp., illus. in color and b/w. Fine copy of first American edition in dust jacket.
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