History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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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.

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat

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South Bound Cat
Entertaining for cat lovers or Shackleton fans
A new point of view for a familiar story
Endearing, but bring Kleenex

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat
Caroline Alexander
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Release Date: 1999-03-24

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The carpenter has a very fine cat who is known as "Mrs. Chippie"...
-- from the diary of Commander F. A. Worsley, captain of Shackleton's Endurance

When Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in the Antarctic ice, all twenty-nine members of the crew were pushed to their limits of survival, including Mrs. Chippy, the ship's estimable cat. Fortunately for posterity, Mrs. Chippy left a diary of the ordeal.

Closely based on the true events of Shackleton's heroic journey, and illustrated with authentic photographs taken by Frank Hurley, expedition photographer, Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition is a firsthand account of one of the greatest adventures in history--from a unique point of view.

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A nice book if your kids don't ask "So what happened to Mrs. Chippy?".......2005-11-28

**SPOILER**
Just so you know, Mrs. Chippy does not make it out of the adventure. The book does not cover this, but if you have inquisitive kids, they might find the actual story quite distressing.
On the last page, Mrs. Chippy ponders what adventures tomorrow will bring her. Sorry to say Mrs. Chippy, tomorrow you and the sled dogs get shot (but unlike them, at least you don't become stew).

South Bound Cat.......2004-09-30

After seeing the IMAX movie about Shackelton in Richmond, VA, my wife and I had to get some books about this expedition and the incredible story of survival. We have two cats and I thought my wife would like this book. As I read through the book, I laugh out loud and some of the "commentary" from Mrs. Chippy. If you have ever lived with a cat, you can see exactly what she is talking about.

We also got "South" by Shackelton. Mrs. Chippy gives a less doom-and-gloom factual account than that book, but still maintains the essence of what is happening during the voyage. I thoroghly enjoyed this book.

Entertaining for cat lovers or Shackleton fans.......2003-02-10

Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition is an entertaining story of Ernest Shackletons journey to Antarctica as told from the perspective of the true-life on board cat who was named Mrs. Chippy. The story is told in journal form and will delight cat lovers with a keen view of the adventure as only a cat would see things. Caroline Alexander does an excellent job of capturing the intelligence and demeanor of cats as in this passage. "The dogs were barking like mad... i suspect they are bewildered much of the time by what goes on around them." Entertaining for both cat lovers and as an adjunct to any book on the true Shackleton adventure. I highly recommend Alfred Lansings account Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage although Caroline Alexander herself also wrote a serious account after this Mrs Chippy cat diary version. Giving it 3 1/2 stars....4+ if you are a cat lover.

A new point of view for a familiar story.......2002-10-29

I really enjoyed this book. Throughout the book, you learn about the men on the Endurance, what their characters were like, and what life was like on the ship, all from the point of view of a cat.
Of course, the ending is sad, but Caroline Alexander does not dwell on the details of Mrs Chippy's demise.
This story will appeal to many, animal lovers like myself, history buffs, and anyone interested in seeing how man handles himself in times of great stress.

Endearing, but bring Kleenex.......2002-03-11

Let me first say that this book was given to me as a marvelously thoughtful gift after I put my cat to sleep. The giver, knowing how much I like reading about Scott, Franklin and Shackleton, discovered this marvelous little book about a cat on Shackleton's famous South expedition. It was amazingly thoughtful, except the giver had no idea what happened on the South Expedition.

Now, I must confess to dunderheadedness in reading this book the minute I received it. I knew what happened. Still, thanks to Alexander's marvelous writing I so fell in love with the indomitable spirit of Mrs. Chippy that I fully expected Alexander would fudge the story a bit and take Mrs. Chippy along. Mrs. Chippy meets her fate with grace and dignity -- as peacefully as my beloved cat. It's not horrible, not maudlin, but very emotional.

This is definitely a better book to give to an expedition enthusiast and cat lover whose cat is still living. Even then, the reader is bound to shed a tear or two. The reader who has just put their beloved cat to sleep is going to cry her heart out.

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The Imperial Collection of Audubon Animals: The Quadrupeds of North America
John James Audubon
Manufacturer: Bonanza Books (Crown Publishers)
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This is a monumental book! The exploration and travels of Audubon along with a collection of 150 of his finest animal paintings, which were reproduced in color in this volume for the first time since 1848. The book is so designed that the reader will capture the romance of Audubon's travels and expeditions. Dramatic color plates in this special treasury.

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Not the best Roman history
The Beautiful Sarcasm
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Great literature, questionable politics.
A "must have" classic

Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome
Michael Grant
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Not the best Roman history.......2007-01-17

In his introduction, Michael Grant tells us Tacitus ranks among Livy and Caesar as one of the best stylists of Roman histories. Either his translation loses this style or Grant is mistaken. I found the 'Annals' to lack many of the features I have come to love about Roman histories. There is little moral instruction. Reading Livy or Plutarch, you can't help but to marvel at the lives of great men and learn either from their virtues or vices. Tacitus does not dwell on such issues. Instead, his history reads more as a catalog of events. First this conspirator died, then this one, then this one, etc. Tacitus defends himself by saying each person deserves to have his name mentioned -- "let each receive his separate, permanent record." But reading the long list of people killed is like visiting a graveyard, the endless gravestones emitting a feeble sense of transience.

Part of the problem may be Tacitus's choice of time period. The bloody and mismanaged era begins with Augustus's death in A.D. 14 and concludes with Nero's 54 years later. This is a time marked by indecency and blood. The emperors, including Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, are as wasteful as they are licentious. The most complete figure to emerge is Tiberius, who though he avoids Rome because of his debauchery with Roman children comes across as well-spoken and involved in state affairs. Subsequent emperors go no further than stick-figures, their reins filled with internal divisiveness and forced suicides.

I would recommend this book to readers who already have some knowledge of Roman history. There are some parts, such as the only mention in pagan Latin of Christ's killer, Pontius Pilate, that will interest readers. But for new readers I would recommend Livy and Plutarch. They are the true stylists of ancient Rome.

The Beautiful Sarcasm.......2006-03-24

I read Tacitus for a college humanities course, and although I had to read the entirety of the Annales over two days, it was quite an enjoyable, if daunting, task. The other reviews discuss his historical importance, so I'll limit myself to commenting that his sarcasm and turns of phrase (particularly in this translation) are biting and funny (at least for those of us for whom Nero and the corrupt emperors are not a reality). Plenty of interesting happenings for someone who is not a classics scholar.

Find a Different Publication of this Book!.......2005-11-29

This is a monumentally bad translation and Penguin should be ashamed of themselves for having kept publishing it for forty odd years. While Grant's style is quite good, his awful, clashing, illogical translations of familiar Roman terms renders it unreadable. Everyone who has any interest in Roman History (and let's face it, who else would be reading this book?) knows what a legion is. But how many people know what a division is, or a brigade? The same goes for company commanders instead of centurions. This is not only confusing and anachronistic, its simply innaccurate. As far as i'm aware a modern company numbers about 120 men (please let me know if i'm wrong!) whereas a century had only 80. Also to call a Roman legion either a division or a brigade is also innaccurate. A division is made up of several brigades but a full legion is not made up of two or three smaller legions. Grant is just being difficult. Also the index infuriatingly insists on listing people by their correct family names instead of the names by which they are commonly called. Hence, you look up references to Corbulo and find "See Domitius" so you look up Domitius, go to one of the pages mentioned and there you find "Corbulo", repeatedly called Corbulo on every page by Tacitus. Finally, the maps. Penguin Classics maps are generaly bad and these are no different. A one page map of all of Northern Europe with all the various placenames and features squeezed awkwardly in through lack of space, and with no outstanding line to dilineate the roman frontier, then on another page a whole page map of africa with a grand total of SEVEN places mentioned on it. This may all seem picky, but it spoils the whole reading experience. I'm afraid it's symptomatic of Penguin Classics who have been resting on their laurels for far too long. They've been very good at constantly changing the covers and folio size of their books but seem to have no real interest in the CONTENT. ( I have binned my copy and bought a very nice secondhand Dent and Sons edition, with "legions" in it! )

Great literature, questionable politics........2005-01-03

The more I've read and re-read this book, the less Tacitus' politics appeal to me, and I wonder that his antiquarian, narrow idealization of Old Republican Rome as against the realities of his own time must have made him a superlative bore to his colleagues in the Roman Senate, who must have wondered that, if the Old Republic was so much better, then how the Empire could even begin existing? However, there's his grasp of the art of the psychological portrait, an art in which he excelled, and that made him the first historian of mentalities and ideologies ever, something for which he used his oppulent, crisp prose, something that in my view fares far better than, say, Caesar's dry record of his military campaigns. Therefore, one cannot but surrender to his powers of expression and read his book for the nth. time as we allow ourselves to become, again, and again, fascinated by it.

A "must have" classic.......2004-06-27

If you love history, this has got to be one of the most important books you could have. This, along with Caesars War Commentaries rank at the highest for their historical significance. Talk about eyewitness accounts! It doesn't get any better than this.

The Imperial Collection of Audubon Animals: The Quadrupeds of North America.

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The Imperial Collection of Audubon Animals: The Quadrupeds of North America.
John James, Audubon
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Collector's Guide to Heisey and Heisey by Imperial Glass Animals

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Collector's Guide to Heisey and Heisey by Imperial Glass Animals
Frank L. Hahn , and Paul Kikeli
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Good for its time
Brilliant
One of the millestones of human consciousness

The imperial animal
Lionel Tiger
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Good for its time.......2007-01-13

This is an improvement on Tiger's 'Men in Groups' but is again undermined by what is now outdated and incorrect information on primates and 'man the hunter'.

Male bonding and the detrimental consequences of it today nevertheless remains relevant and the authors do their best to present evolutionary evidence for why men who are 'banded together in some interest will readily resort to violence against other groups of men who are seen as opposed to that interest'.

The authors miss the more recently recognized probability that we inherited male philopatry from our common ancestor with the chimpanzee and how this acted against female bonding/kinship and increased male-bonded influence and self-interest. They also, as others at the time, believed the incest taboo to be specific to humans yet we now know that the avoidance of inbreeding exists throughout the animal - and even the plant - kingdoms.

Tiger and Fox are not totally blind to the female perspective but their tone is often dismissive towards them and offensive at times eg when discussing baboon consortships they describe the end of the consortship when the female 'is thrown back into the pool of females'! Hardly! Also, discussing homicidal murderers, they describe the 'Crazy Dogs' of the Crow Indians who were young, killer males, allowed to wreck the camp and rape the women on the night before a battle or raid. These young men could do this with impunity because they were facing death the next day and they were therefore the most honored of men. There is little concern here to discuss the price the women pay for the 'protection' from warring males!

The authors have a romanticized view of what they presume was the hunter life - not because they pretend it was not harsh and violent but because its small-scale violence was not threatening to the species nor the planet and the males were excited by the hunting and killing ie their work. Unable to return to the hunter way of life they suggest the best we can do is to contain and control male-bonded violence which is now natural but maladaptive and potentially disastrous.

Tiger and Fox certainly do not paint a pretty picture of masculinity and male violence but they do mix it with an almost sacred status to protect it from any real challenge or potential for evolutionary change. Women have changed in ways that were not even imagined as recently as 1971 so it would be a little premature to settle for what is settled for here. In some ways the book sounds as if it could have been written in 1871, especially in their attitude towards women and female primates.

Male-bonded violence remains a major problem in human societies and this book helps in the understanding of its force and dangers. The authors said they tried to view 'man' as if they were observing an alien species but they obviously can only really view humans from a male perspective and with male hormones and inherited male thinking and feeling which they acknowledge in human males as being full of fantasies of omnipotence and what can only be descibed as male narcissism.

Good for its time but should not be accepted uncritically today.

Brilliant.......2000-11-26

An absoulutely fascinating look at the origins of present day human behavior through the eyes of an emerging science. The study of Darwinian anthropology and psychology are so commonplace now and filled with contradictory perspectives, that is refreshing to see the courage and logic of where much of it began. After thirty years, this work has yet to be outdone.

One of the millestones of human consciousness.......2000-11-23

It has been said that Copernicus' treatises on the actual heliocentric nature of the solar system were written more for the friends of his on his unique level of understanding and education. They were more or less accidentally leaked to the Catholic Church years later; hence the unexpected nature of their reaction. The historian of science Giorgio de Santillana wrote in THE CRIME OF GALILEO that it was the European academic community (owing its legitimacy to proving inaccurate Aristotlian interpretations of astronomy to be correct) and not the Catholic Church, that gave Galileo the most resistance. And it was they who were instrumental in politically influencing the Church itself in its damnation of his theories. Darwin's book ORIGIN OF SPECIES was said to have been scoffed at before all but disappearing... before becoming the focal point of the intellectual wars in Europe and America in the latter half of the 19th century. And Einstein was a postal clerk for years before his theory of relativity was taken seriously.

All of this, combined with Schoepenhauer's theory about the three stages of an emerging truth (first it is ignored, second, it is violently opposed, third, it is accepted as self evident), serve to me as explanation as to why this book, THE IMPERIAL ANIMAL by Tiger and Fox, was not only met with disdain by a number of sociologists and cultural anthropologists upon publication, but has never been previously reviewed on AMAZON.COM and is not referred to among psychoanalytical or sociopolitical minded intellectuals or even everyday people and the Media during the course of any given day. And yet, in much the same way Freud and Jung made words like "ego", "unconscious", "introvert", and "sibling rivalry" a part of the everyday language of people who say they don't even believe in the social relevance of psychology, this one book is responsible for us looking at the prehistoric world of man and thinking, now with a flipness that makes references both colloquial and unconsious, that it has something to teach us about who we are in the here and now.

This book is considered a classic amongst anthropologists and the equivalent of the life-altering books and theories I've mentioned above to Evolutionary psychologists. It may be singlehandedly responsible for people using anaolgies of prehistoric times to explain the inclinations and dilemmas of modern man, in all aspects. Listen to the writers themselves as they talk about the climate in which they wrote this book thirty years ago in the introduction wriiten in 1998:

"We could mention several areas in which our scorned ideas of 1971 have become commonplaces of today's academic and public dialogue. Tiger's term 'male bonding' seems to have passed into the language much as 'inferiority complex' did... It heartens us, for instance, that on opening almost any serious health book today we come across passages like this: 'Even if we are not 100 percent sure that a high fiber diet helps prevent most of the diseases listed, common sense directs us to eat in a manner more closely resembling that of our ancestors, who were rarely bothered by these problems (William Manahan, M.D., "Eat For Health", 1988).'...This splendid advice is attributed to 'common sense'. All we can say is that today's common sense is yesterday's ridiculous theories."

Tiger and Fox as sociobiological thinkers make clear that an overwhelmingly significant portion of all interpersonal and cultural human behavior stems from biological imperatives. We are, as the end result of our biology, destined to have a language of behavioral traits established in us that create much of what is called culture. And though it definitively is not created by culture, it actually is the biggest impact ON culture in all its permutations throughout time and around the world. It is what they call the "biogrammar" of human kind. It is borne via the million or so years of evolution that brought us to a refined state of hunter-based society in the jungle savannahs around the world, and then combined with the alterations of and additions to that paradigm with the birth of agricultural society- which lead to civlization as we know it.

The book is profoundly humbling and disheartening. It attacks and obliterates the cultural hubris regarding the uniqueness of mankind that you would not know exists as the foundation of your psyche until they reveal it, regardless of your philosophical or theological views. Even the enlightened evolutionary/biochemical view that turns out to be a contradiction in the minds of most laypeople like me- that we share most of the same genetic material with apes and other primates but none of the behavioral implications of that scientific fact- is blown apart in just a look at the essential nature of all political systems:

"These are some of the features of baboon and macque social structure... whatever the details of the system, certain underlying processes are obvious despite the diversity of surface structures, and can be easily summarized.

-the system is based on hierarchy and competiton for status...

-the males dominate the political system, and the older males dominate the younger.

-females can be influential in sending males up the status ladder, and their long term relationships to one another are critical for the stability of the system...

-cooperation among males is essential; coalitions of bonded males act as units in the dominance system.

-the whole structure is held together by the attractiveness of the dominants and the attention that is constantly paid them.

-Because of this, charismatic individuals can upset the the hierarchical structure, and by the same token, retain power."

What they show to be the aspects of the basic social environment of the baboon, are also, *at the very least*, the running themes of the past several centuries of western history.

Using superlatives to describe this book is pointless. Its impact and influence speaks for itself- in fact our culture as it is today speaks for it. It has the power to shake the foundations of your faith in absolutely everything, which cannot be put into words. But with this idea of the "biogram" and the biogrammatical language of humankind being a fact to be worked with, the way aviators work with the fact of gravity or Oscar Petrson works with the 88 unchangeable keys of the piano... Its power to illuminate and encourage is equally as strong.

It is pretty amazing.

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101 Razor-Sharp Blues Guitar Fill-In Licks (Book and CD) (Red Dog Music Books Razor-Sharp Blues Guitar Series)
Larry McCabe
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Clapton: The Autobiography

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Legendary guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Hubert Sumlin, T-Bone Walker, Johnnie Winter, Albert King, Freddie King, and Chuck Berry are known to all blues fans for their remarkable soloing abilities. But the complete blues guitarist must do more than shine in the solo spotlight. And that is why every great soloist is also a great fill-in player. Tasteful fill-in licks support and inspire the singer while adding fire and drive to the performance. For example, Blind Lemon Jeffersons string-snapping fill-ins provided the perfect complement for his rough-hewn blues songs. Both Louis Armstrong and Lester Young seemed to talk to the singer with their finely-crafted, jazzy fill-ins. And Henry Sunflower Vestines stinging, buzzsaw fill-ins never failed to drive his Canned Heat bandmates into a psychedelic frenzy. This book is accompanied by a user-friendly split-track CD allows you to sit in with a professional blues band while you learn to play blues fills behind a great singer, Charles Adkins. The Heat-Seeking Missile Blues Band is heard on the left channel; the fill-in licks are isolated on the right channel. This is not just another book of abstract how do I use these licks in real life? licks, but a collection of solid musical ideas that can be applied to thousands of real songs. Another fine contribution from Red Dog Music Books, designed for the early intermediate-to intermediate guitarist. Some of the licks are accessible to highly motivated near-beginners, and the book is an excellent resource for teachers.

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His Imperial and Royal Highness the Crow
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ASIN: 1417934123

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1912. From the Introduction: I do not pretend to claim any literary merit for these plain, unadorned little sketches. There is nothing particularly striking about them; they do not bring to light any sensational revelations. They are just pages taken from the hunting diary of a man who loves open-air sport, and to whom Nature, grand and beautiful, is an inexhaustible source of delight and joy. Contents: An Elephant Hunt in Ceylon; A Tiger Hunt in India; Pig-Sticking; Shooting Alpine Ibex; A Fourteen-Pointer; My First Capercailzie; Stalking Roe-Buck in Silesia; Grouse Shooting in Scotland; Two Chamois Hunts; The Phantom Stag; Blackbuck Hunting; A Drive at Mirzapur; and A Hunting Expedition in the Ganges Delta.

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The Imperial Animal
Lionel & Robin Fox Tiger
Manufacturer: Paladin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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