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.

Above and Beyond Parsley: Food for the Senses

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Wonderful cookbook
My most marked up cookbook
Above and Beyond Parsley is just that

Above and Beyond Parsley: Food for the Senses
Junior League of Kansas City , and Mo Jr. League Of Kansas City
Manufacturer: Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri
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Wonderful cookbook.......2004-12-18

I've had this cookbook for several years and I think it's terrific. I haven't made a recipe from it that disappointed me.

The recipes are not difficult to make, so anyone should be able to cook from this book. The food turns out a bit sophisticated. You could easily use some of these recipes for a dinner party.

Two of the recipes I really enjoyed from this book were Mustard Ginger Pork Chops and Minestrone. The pork chops were wonderful - you basically add a simple marinade (pretty easy to do!). The minestrone is wonderful! It is probably my favorite soup ever. It uses ham to give it a smoky flavor, then you add a number of veggies and pasta to it, and top it off with cilantro and parmesan cheese. This is a great soup to make at the beginning of the week and have it for lunch every day for the rest of the week. I've made this soup so many times and I've even tried to freeze it (although I wouldn't recommend that). This is also a good soup to fix ahead of time if you're going to have guests. Add a salad and some bread and you have quite a nice lunch.

Besides the recipes, the photography in this book is amazing. It's quite different than other cookbooks. I would have to consider the photos as "art" because they are of the quality of framed photographic art. I keep thinking of taking this book off of my cookbook shelf and using it as a "coffee table book" because it is so beautiful.

Overall, I would recommend this cookbook to almost anyone. The recipes are simple but elegant and the pictures make the book a joy just to look through.

My most marked up cookbook.......2001-12-20

This book will hardly fit back on the shelf: Yellow post-it notes hang from its margins, nearly a pad-ful so far, each marking a high-taste recipe. I've only had the book a year, but it has fast become a favorite.

Above and Beyond Parsley is just that.......1997-10-25

I have prepared many of the recipes from this book and have found all I have tried to be wonderful. They are easy to follow, and the collection of recipes is diverse and appeals to the most discriminating of tastes. This book also provides visuals on the art of artistic meal presentation. Of the cookbooks that I own, I know if a meal is prepared from this book all will be happy, especially me!

City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch

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Cities are human!
Lynch's researches and projects brilliantly organized

City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch
Kevin Lynch
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ASIN: 0262620952

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Kevin Lynch's books are the classic underpinnings of modern urban planning and design, yet they are only a part of his rich legacy of ideas about human purposes and values in built form. City Sense and City Design brings together Lynch's remaining work, including professional design and planning projects that show how he translated many of his ideas and theories into practice. An invaluable sourcebook of design knowledge, City Sense and City Design completes the record of one of the foremost environmental design theorists of our time and leads to a deeper understanding of his distinctively humanistic philosophy.

The editors, both former students of Lynch, provide a cogent summary of his career and of the role he played in shaping and transforming the American urban design profession during the 1950s, the 1960s, and the 1970s. Each of the seven thematic groupings of writings and projects that follow begins with a short introduction explaining their content and their background.

The essays in part I focus on the premises of Lynch's work: his novel reading of large-scale built environments and the notion that the design of an urban landscape should be as meaningful and intimate as the natural landscape. In part II, excerpts from Lynch's travel journals reveal his early ideas on how people perceive and interpret their surroundings--ideas that culminated in his seminal work, The Image of the City. This part of the book also presents Lynch's experiments with children and his assessment of environmental-perception research. The examples of both small-scale and large-scale analysis of visual form in part III are followed by three parts on city design. These include Lynch's more theoretical works on complex planning decisions involving both functional (spatial and structural organization) and normative (how the city works in human terms) approaches, articles discussing the principles that guided Lynch's teaching and practice of city design, and descriptions of Lynch's own projects in the Boston area and elsewhere.

The book concludes with essays written late in Lynch's career, fantasy pieces describing utopias and offering new design freedoms and scenarios warning of horrifying "cacotopias."

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Cities are human!.......1999-11-22

This is THE BOOK for anyone -not exclusively urban planners- who wants to understand not only the physical form of the city, but how its citizens interact with the urban landscape. Through his experience and observation, Lynch reminds us that the most important component of a city -the reason why they are built- are its inhabitants.

Lynch's researches and projects brilliantly organized.......1998-04-08

Michael Southworth and Tridib Banerjee, former students of Kevin Lynch at MIT's School of Urban Studies and Planning, have organized a brilliant collection of most of Lynch's works. Here we can find his seminal ideas pointed out trough his researches in the field of environmental perception, as well as his urban design projects. The book still presents a good biography of Lynch and serves as a very interesting complement to the books that this fundamental author wrote. It is an extremely important work both to architectural and urban design students as well as to professionals and researches.

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Making Sense of Cities
Blair Badcock
Manufacturer: A Hodder Arnold Publication
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ASIN: 0340742240

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Making Sense of Cities provides an up-to-date, vibrant and accessible introduction to urban geography. It gives students a sense of the patterns and processes of urbanization and cities, recognizing the significance of globalization, economics, politics and culture from a range of perspectives.

Let's Explore the Five Senses With City Dog and Country Dog (Let's Find Out Early Learning Books: the Five Senses/Opposites and Position Words)

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Let's Explore the Five Senses With City Dog and Country Dog (Let's Find Out Early Learning Books: the Five Senses/Opposites and Position Words)
Laine Falk
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
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Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty
What a blast!

Listen to the City

Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
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In this bold book, author/illustrator Rachel Isadora pays homage to the vibrantly colored pop art made famous by Roy Lichtenstein. Listen to the City is a jazzy, cartoon-style celebration of the sounds of a city. Helicopters fly overhead: "Whoop Whoop Whoop." Dogs pant: "Heh Heh Heh Heh." Cars and trucks crowd the streets: "Honk Honk, Jeeep Jeeep." Pigeons in the park coo, balloons pop, mustard squirts onto a hot dog. City and country dwellers alike will love to mimic the noisy expressions of a metropolis in motion. Isadora splashes bold, bright swathes across every page, in decisive strokes of color and heavy black outlines. Readers who enjoyed her earlier pop art title, ABC Pop!, will be thrilled to see a return of this style, while fans of Isadora's quieter techniques, as seen in her Caldecott Honor Book Ben's Trumpet and Isadora Dances, will be amazed by her versatility. (Ages 2 to 6) --Emilie Coulter

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Listen! It's the city! From the beep beeps to the clank clunk clinks, every day the city bursts with sound. This vibrant pop-art style perfectly expresses the surge of a crowd, the wail of a baby, the boing of a basketball, and all the other noises that define a day in the city. With speech bubbles and hip-looking sound effects, this sassy book will be a resounding hit with little kids who love to make noise.

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Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty.......2006-03-22

Roy Lichtenstein may have accomplished many things in his lifetime, but writing a children's book was never one of them. Of course you might not know that after perusing Rachel Isadora's pop-art inspired, "Listen To the City". Having done well enough with its predecessor, "ABC Pop!" to consider a sequel of a sort, Isadora expands her repertoire further than ever. I first heard of this author/illustrator's work when I read her, "Ben's Trumpet" and "On Your Toes" so many many years ago. Not afraid to switch styles mid-stream, this book is certainly a testament to one artist's ability to do whatever it takes to create something wholly original. And pop-o-rific to boot.

"Listen To the City" catalogues a full day in what could only be the Big Apple. Turn the publication page and the first thing you see is a bright clock, all primary colors in yellow, blue, with a facing page of pure unadulterated red red red. The words, "RISE AND SHINE" appear at the top of the page and you begin just another day in the city. You hear and see all kinds of things right from the start. Breakfast sizzling. A helicopter high above whoop whoop whooping. The sounds and sights of hundreds of different legs hurrying to and fro. Sometimes pictures overlap one another, as when cars, trucks, and taxis all converge on the busy streets. People get hot dogs and balloons ("SQUIRT SQUIRT, POP!") and when the day is done they watch movies, listen to jazz, and go to sleep. A long, noisy, eventful day.

Isadora reduces the illustrations in this book to their most essential forms. The publication page doesn't offer any clues as to how this was done (though I was amused to find that the text was set in something called, "CircusMouseBook-Medium"). Basically this book would do the aforementioned Lichtenstein proud. Colors are bright and pop out like nobody's business. The words offer amusing juxtapositions between different sounds. At one point you're watching the legs of all kinds of people walk about. Sound effects for this page include, "CLICK CLICK, CLOMP CLOMP, TINK, TIP TAP", and, "CLICK CLACK". I wouldn't recommend this book for reading aloud during a storytime, but one-on-one it could be a lot of fun.

There's a rather peculiar picture in the book that shows one of the New York Public Library's famous lions (I'm not sure which) sitting mysteriously in a green park. I'm going to get all nit-picky on you now and point out that the library lions face only a busy 5th Avenue. The park is behind them, as well as behind the library. You might say that Isadora isn't singling out a single "city" with the book, but how then do you describe the image of the George Washington Bridge or the Number 2 subway train? The strongest evidence that this is a NYC story? The last image in the book is of a garbage truck working in the dark as a snarky voice calls from an upper apartment window, "QUIET!". A cleaned up version of what you might actually hear, but one that struck me as particularly New Yorkish.

If you're one of those parents who likes to introduce different art styles to your children via picture book illustrations, pop-art couldn't get a better visual aid than, "Listen To the City". Consider pairing it with James Warhola's droll, "Uncle Andy's" or Ross MacDonald's, "Achoo Bang Crash", for a particularly pop-inspired storytime. A nice if not completely overwhelming title.

What a blast!.......2002-04-29

This was such a wonderful tool to teach my little boy not only words but proved to be a great discussion soundboard. I really enjoyed listening to his ideas about sounds, color and shapes. He walks around the house now sounding out words, sounds and explores the objects around him. I thought the illustrations were very creatiive and being an avid art lover greatly enjoyed viewing the pop art pictures. They were so clever and well executed that I thought they were of museum quality. I hope Ms. Isadora does more books like this. Nancy and Collin Flynn

City Baseball Magic--Plain Talk and Uncommon Sense about Cities and Baseball Parks

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What the White Sox and Rangers should have read.

City Baseball Magic--Plain Talk and Uncommon Sense about Cities and Baseball Parks
Philip Bess
Manufacturer: Knothole Pr
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ASIN: 0967398606

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City Baseball Magic is a polemic on behalf of the traditional urban baseball park, and an exercise in "pragmatic idealism." Todays new "retro" baseball stadiums look wonderful, but they are outrageously expensive and do not provide the intimacy nor foster the sense of community that was possible with the classic neighborhood ballparks (built in the early 1900's) because they are conceived as suburban buildings. They are a drain on taxpayers, they yield seating arrangements that are worse for the average fan in the upper deck, they result in huge ticket price increases, and they tend to destroy the physical and spatial fabric of cities. But most of these liabilities can be ameliorated by once again understanding the baseball park as an urban building subject to the physical constraints of urban networks of streets and blocks. To demonstrate this thesis, Bess offers the wonderfully conceived Armour Field plan, a proposal for neighborhood design and a new ballpark that was originally presented in the late 1980's as an alternative for the new stadium that the Chicago White Sox were determined to have built to replace the venerable old Comiskey Park on Chicago's south side. Still relevant today, the proposed ballpark addresses social, cultural, and economic issues, as well as issues of baseball and urban aesthetics; and demonstrates the superiority of the traditional urban baseball park over the modern stadium in ways both tangible and intangible. Includes 46 illustrations and photos.

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What the White Sox and Rangers should have read........2001-04-27

This author is considered one of sport's architecture's most important proponents of the forgotten values that made parks such as Wrigley Field and County Stadium great places to watch baseball: designing ballparks where the common fan and not the suite-holder have first priority. His book examines why not all new ballparks are great parks, and identifies those factors that put Jacobs Field and PNC Park in a different league from The Ballpark in Arlington and Comiskey Park.

Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism

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Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism
Wolfgang Schivelbusch , Norman Pressman , Emily Thompson , Constance Classen , and David Howes
Manufacturer: Lars Müller Publishers
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ASIN: 3037780606

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Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition catalogue Sense of the City proposes a re-thinking and re-presenting of the city, and offers a more complex analysis of the qualities, comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life. From darkness and night to urban soundscapes, to the urban air and climate, this book presents a new, "sensorial" approach to urbanism. In defense of public spaces in contemporary cities, writer Cedric Price has observed that "mental, physical, and sensory well-being is required." Included here is a rich collection of images on the different urban themes addressed in the exhibition, along with a series of insightful and critical essays. Contributors include Constance Classen, David Howes, Norman Pressman, Emily Thompson, and Mirko Zardini. Edited by Mirko Zardini. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in./320 pgs / Illustrated throughout.

The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 17151785 (Past and Present Publications)

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The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 17151785 (Past and Present Publications)
Kathleen Wilson
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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This exciting study demonstrates the central role of "the people," the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. Pioneering in its focus on provincial towns, its attention to the imperial contexts of urban politics and its use of a rich and diverse array of sources--from newspapers, prints and plays to pottery and tea-cloths--it shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.

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Yoshiwara: city of the senses,
Stephen Longstreet
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