Echoes of the Old Darkland
Author | : Charles Finch |
Publisher | : Khenti |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780962944406 |
Traces the African basis for the origin and evolution of humanity, culture, myths, and religion.
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Author | : Charles Finch |
Publisher | : Khenti |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780962944406 |
Traces the African basis for the origin and evolution of humanity, culture, myths, and religion.
Author | : Jack Mapanje |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780435911942 |
A volume of poetry written by a Malawi prisoner of conscience during his ten-year imprisonment.
Author | : Charles Finch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780962944437 |
Author | : Charles Finch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The author looks at the question of race and prehistory and contextualises human development from its beginnings in Africa and its spread around the globe; a reappraisal of the world's first multi-genius, Imhotep; a look at the black Queens of Ethiopia, and a forcefully argued case of the origins of Christianity in ancient Egyptian religion; the most convincing area of the author's arguments rest on the medical record of the Egyptians who documented numerous ailments and their diagnoses and cures. The author presents two seperate essays on this subject which leave no doubt as to the precedence of medical science in Africa.
Author | : Wade Davis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1451628366 |
A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
Author | : Fred Hoyle |
Publisher | : University Science Books |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780935702279 |
In Home Is Where the Wind Blows, Sir Fred Hoyle, one of this century's most eminent scientists and author of dozens of successful books, both fiction and nonfiction, offers a revealing and charming account of his life and work. Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist - Sir Fred is perhaps best known, in scientific circles, for his brilliant explanation of the origin of the elements from hydrogen nuclei in stars (a process known as nucleosynthesis) and for developing (with Sir Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold) the elegant but controversial steady-state theory of the Universe (which assumes the continuous creation of matter). In 1950, in the last of a series of radio lectures on astronomy that he delivered on the air for the BBC, Sir Fred coined the term "Big Bang" to characterize the competing expanding-Universe theory, which has since become the dominant paradigm. Ironically, the term has become a permanent addition to the language of cosmology. Sir Fred's name has become well known to the general public because of his unusual ability to describe the ideas of science in a simple and accessible way. In addition to his scientific work, he has written more than a dozen works of popular science (many of them widely translated) and more than a dozen works of science fiction (most of them in collaboration with his son, Geoffrey). In all his work, Sir Fred has shown himself to be ready and able to challenge established thinking. In the author's amusing and memorable account of his childhood in Home Is Where the Wind Blows, the reader will see how this came to be true. Possessed since infancy with a strong streak of independence, he was encouraged by his parents, throughout his schoolyears, to trust his own judgment and to think for himself.
Author | : Andre Norton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2003-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780812577600 |
A Crown Disowned is the third volume of the cycle of Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan that began with To the King a Daughter and continued in Knight or Knave. The earth shakes and splits as the forces from the North draw nearer. The Ice Dragon Riders are speaking to the land, and more fire mountains awaken in the Bog. Rohan seeks to join forces with Tusser, leader of the Bog-folk, as Queen Ysa raises an army to clear the Bog. War draws closer until even the Queen cannot deny it any longer. Raids from the north increase, and, for the first time, the Riders of the Ice Dragons appear. It is time for the Queen to give up her game of pitting one faction against another. Four great armies are assembled to march under the same banner. Though they do not represent the Four Trees, they nevertheless see this as a good omen. Many good men from all four armies fall in battle, yet the Great Foulness is still at large. Is the combined might of the four powers enough to free the land from evil?
Author | : June Goodwin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Afrikaners |
ISBN | : 0684813653 |
When South Africa's present transitional government comes to an end, apartheid will be dead. But just as the demise of slavery did not solve America's race problems, so the abolition of apartheid will only begin South Africa's healing process. Heart of Whiteness examines the cataclysmic changes taking place among Afrikaners--the "white tribe" of South Africa.
Author | : Nancy Jack Todd |
Publisher | : Plume Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ian Cameron |
Publisher | : London : Macdonald |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
The history of the Royal Geographical Society 1830-1980.