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WORLDS IN COLLISION
by the great Immanuel Velikovsky. Preface (original) and a new Preface to the paperback ediiton. Condition: UNREAD 1977 Pocket paperback, 7th printing. Perfect but for a name written top Title Page. Content: Whether you agree with Velikovsky (in part or totally), you wuld have to admit his books and theories have had an impact on the scientific community (who despise him) or on popular science (the general public likes him). Oh - and don't forget Carl Sagan - who, I understand, used Velikovsky's theories about Venus as a part of his own Ph.D. dissertation. Supposedly, Broca's Brain" is Sagan's answer to this book. Reviewer: "What makes up the book's core and focus is the element of science and validity in ancient myth. Any modern reader who picks up the Bible and leafs to Exodus will wonder about the events being described there. If it was not a series of actual divine intervention, than what was it? The account is too similar in detail with the symptoms of a great natural disaster to be wholly fabricated. More importantly: what caused the fairly obvious similarities in myths from all over the world? A language-like trade and distribution? Are their rough contents features of human subconsciousness common to us all? Nobody has the answer. In fact many still stubbornly persist there is no science here at all: myths are made-up stories and wishful thinking. Velikovsky's "error" was drawing his major conclusions from myth and folklore alone. There was no geological or astronomical evidence to back him up. Instead, he called for these sciences to adapt to his theories. Nevertheless, his method had a logic and clarity that was rudely ripped aside by critics, who wanted to put him on display and eliminate another threat to mainstream scientific thought. And thus leaving the actual question unchallenged: where is the science and the truth in myth and folklore?" A fascinating read. And then read Broca's Brain. [1 copy available]
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THE GREENING OF AMERICA
by Charles A. Reich. Condition: UNREAD 1971 Bantam paperback, first printing. Light tanning to white cover edges with light tanning to page edges. Content: One of the most influential books of 20th century America. "If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today....I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means." - Reich [1 copy available]
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MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP: Amazing Phenomena in Our World's Waterways
compiled & edited by Frank Spaeth. Condition: UNREAD 1998 Llewellyn Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Since 1948 FATE Magazine has been bringing to the public true stories of strange and amazing stories of water monsters, thostly vessels, & oceanic oddities. These are the best of those stories from the past 60 years. [1 copy available]
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