The Ark Before Noah

Author: Irving Finkel
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385537123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history. Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective when a member of the public arrived at the museum with an intriguing cuneiform tablet from a family collection. Not only did the tablet reveal a new version of the Babylonian Flood Story; the ancient poet described the size and completely unexpected shape of the ark, and gave detailed boat building specifications. Decoding this ancient message wedge by cuneiform wedge, Dr. Finkel discovered where the Babylonians believed the ark came to rest and developed a new explanation of how the old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. In The Ark Before Noah, Dr. Finkel takes us on an adventurous voyage of discovery, opening the door to an enthralling world of ancient voices and new meanings.

Nemesis of the Daleks

Author: Paul Cornell
Publisher: Panini UK Limited
ISBN: 9781846535314
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This second volume of comics collecting the Seventh Doctor's complete strip adventures from the pages of 'Doctor Who Magazine' sees the famous Time Lord battling his deadliest enemies, the Daleks.

Flood Control

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1042

Book Description

Vanderdeken's Children

Author: Christopher Bulis
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 9780563405900
Category : Doctor Who (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The eighth adventure of Doctor Who and Sam. It is 3123, and in attempting to discover the origin of an alien spacecraft, the Doctor and Sam hit upon a terrible truth. The alien ship is caught in a closed loop of time, being neither created nor destroyed, but relentlessly circling the vortex.

The Year of the Flood

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307398927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life. Two people find they have unexpectedly survived: Ren, a young dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails (the cleanest dirty girls in town), and Toby, solitary and determined, who has barricaded herself inside a luxurious spa, watching and waiting. The women have to decide on their next move—they can’t stay hidden forever. But is anyone else out there?

Doctor Who: The Clockwise War

Author: Scott Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846539695
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The final, epic Twelfth Doctor adventure is here, from the pages of Doctor Who magazine! The Doctor and Bill Potts are pulled into a deadly conflict as the Time Lords come under attack -- but the Doctor's adversary is one of his closest friends! A dark piece of the Doctor's history is exposed as the secrets of the Time War are revealed! Also: the classic saga "The Cybermen" is collected at last, now in full colour for the first time! Plus: six stories starring the First, Fourth and Fifth Doctors from the pages of the Doctor Who Yearbooks. And: an in-depth 13-page commentary section where the comics creators reveal the secrets behind the stories! Featuring never-before-published art, photos, and character designs!" -- Page [4] of cover.

The World Shapers

Author: Various
Publisher: Panini UK Limited
ISBN: 9781905239870
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
More thrilling adventures in time and space for the Sixth Doctor, Peri, and their penguin pal Frobisher in this concluding volume of their complete comic strip run from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine! This book features the following digitally restored stories, reprinted in their original episodic format for the first time: "Exodus," "Revelation," "Genesis," "Nature of the Beast," "Time Bomb," "Salad Daze," "Changes," "Profits of Doom," "The Gift," and "The World Shapers." Featuring stunning artwork from John Ridgway, with scripts from the legendary Grant Morrison (Batman: Arkham Asylum, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles), Jamie Delano (Hellblazer), Simon Furman (Transformers), Mike Collins (Star Trek) and Alan McKenzie (2000 AD).

The Flood

Author: Maggie Gee
Publisher: Saqi Books - Saqi Books
ISBN: 9780863565120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical 'Last Days' sect is recruiting thousands ... husband Harold listens to jazz and their ditsy teenage daughter Lola fights capitalism by bunking off school. Shirley takes her twin boys to the zoo. The Government - eager to detract attention from a foreign war it has waged - announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extraordinary climax that ensues.

Illegal Alien

Author: Mike Tucker
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 9780563405702
Category : Doctor Who
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Britain is at war. Night after night the Luftwaffe are bombing London. A serial killer dubbed the Limehouse Lurker is stalking the rubble-strewn streets. But a deadlier threat falls from the sky in the shape of a sinister silver sphere. Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees the sphere crash-land and split open -- and glimpses something emerging from within. But the military dismisses his account of events -- the sphere is simply a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way. What else could it be? Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace are the only people to believe McBride. The sphere bears all the hallmarks of a sophisticated alien technology -- and whatever was inside of it is now loose in London. Before long the Doctor and his friends have embarked on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi operatives -- and some very old enemies."--Page 4 of cover.

Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1938

Book Description