Ask the Ancients: Astonishing Advice for Daily Dilemmas

Author: Sylvia Gray
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN: 161041117X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Ancient authorities from the Western classical tradition offer opinions on these and other burning questions. The advice is often astonishing-for its wisdom, its entertainment value, or its complete lack of concern for modern sensibilities. The author, who collected these fascinating tidbits as she worked her way through many of the extant classical sources, can't help but enter the discussion with her own thoughts as well.

Ask the Ancients

Author: Sylvia Gray
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781436312776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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America Before

Author: Graham Hancock
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250153743
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.

Love's Ancients

Author: Emil Toth
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329379632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Kaathi, the Healer, sets out to find the spiritual Ancients. The Ancients help Kaathi's group see the future. Some see horror and seek to change it. Can they and will it present alternate dangers? A tribe of stalking primitives seek to mate with women in Kaathi's group. Unable to communicate with them can they prevent the primitives from stealing the women? A colony of horrific mutants wants to make Kaathi and her group sexual slaves. Can Kaathi use her love to keep her group safe? A tribe of diminutive, hairless people attack Kaathi's group. Only one woman from the attackers survives. Kaathi discovers the woman uses her mind to heal a broken arm. The group encroach upon lion, crocodile and baboon territories and fight for their lives. Kaathi refuses to seek the safety of a tree and fearlessly faces an approaching lion. Can she keep it from making a meal of her? Kaathi takes a few people from each race she encounters back to her village.

Napoleon

Author: Robert McNair Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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The Island of the Ancients

Author: Ben Hills
Publisher: Victorian Government Department of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781741962222
Category : Centenarians
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
Why is it that the inhabitants of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia are two or three times as likely as any other people on earth to reach 100? Ben Hills travels around the island, meeting up with a cast of colourful centenarians while capturing Sardinia's glorious landscape and lifestyle.

The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns

Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
This is an essay by Benjamin Constant. In this essay, Constant contrasted two views on freedom: one held by "the Ancients," particularly those in Classical Greece, and the other by members of modern societies. He investigates the dangers of attempting to impose ancient liberty in a modern context, as well as the risks associated with each type of liberty. The danger of ancient liberty was that men, preoccupied with securing their share of social power, might place too little value on individual rights and pleasures. The danger of modern liberty is that we will give up our right to participate in political power too easily, absorbed in the enjoyment of our independence and the pursuit of our particular interests." Constant believes that the two types of liberty must eventually be combined.

The Scrolls of the Ancients

Author: Robert Newcomb
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345478436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 631

Book Description
“Plenty of adventure and magic . . . continues Robert Newcomb’s tradition of mixing adventure with an interesting and well-realized magical world.”—SF Site Prince Tristan and his twin sister, Shailiha, are the Chosen Ones, prophesied to unite the opposing magics of the dark Vagaries and the benevolent Vigors. But before they can fulfill their destiny, they must search out the mysterious Scrolls of the Ancients which hold the key to unlocking great mystical secrets. They are not the only ones on a dire quest. Krassus, a devoted servant of the Vagaries, has located one of the Scrolls and through it has attained great and ominous powers. Now he needs but one thing: a man who unknowingly possesses magic in his blood almost as potent as that of the Chosen Ones. Tristan and Shailiha must find that man before Krassus’s dark enchantments turn him into the most dangerous weapon of evil the world has ever known—if it’s not already too late. . . .

Treasures of the Ancients: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Writings in North America

Author: Stephen B. Shaffer
Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
ISBN: 1462104940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
MYSTERIES AND REMNANTS OF A FORGOTTEN PEOPLETremendous information as well as many artifacts and ancient writings have been brought to light during the past one hundred years to prove that the Americas were once populated earlier than first believed. But who were these people? Where did they come from? Why did they suddenly disappear? More important, did they leave any records to tell of their existence and civilization?What about the strange writings of Manti, Fillmore, Cedar City, Pariette Draw, Nephi, and Lake Powell, all in Utah? What about the Aztec copper bowl of Currant Creek, the gold plate of the Wasatch Front, the lead plates of the Myton Bench, the Manti tablets, the Kinderhook plates, and the Soper/Savage collection in LDS Church archives?Best-selling author Stephen Shaffer explores these mysteries and the remnants of a forgotten people in Treasures of the Ancients: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Writings in North America.

The Wisdom of the Ancients: Mining the Riches of Genesis 1 - 11

Author: Steve Langford
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1698707827
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
Five ancient stories, woven together by genealogical tables, are recorded in Genesis 1-11. Author and spiritual guide Steve Langford explores these ancient stories and genealogies, identifying the ancient wisdom and spiritual truths they reflect. The author walks the reader through each story and then identifies the timeless truths reflected in them. The book takes the reader beyond a casual, superficial reading of the stories, guiding the reader into unexplored depths where the stories’ riches are found.