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1.101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by: Matthew Frederick September 30, 2007
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101 I learned in Architecture school - objective, clean, sober, direct,splendid book, specially for architects, as I am. Even though, philosophically, it can be read by everyone. It will teach a lot. Congratulations for the author. Maria Thereza de Barros Camargo Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2.The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions by: Esther M. Sternberg M.D. 2000-05
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Most of us believe that emotions have an impact on health--emotional stress often leads to illness and bad environments definitely changes our moods and our health. But...just how do immune defenses work, does the brain really send messages to our body to protect it from the impact of stress or lead us to get sick? How do we get the balance of healthy performance and stress right? This extraordinarily well-written book describes the mechanisms relying heavily on current research and does so with exquisite references to history and descriptions of real situations. Sternberg writes so well that many of the emotions she discusses are evoked for the reader. It challenges mainstream linking without promoting simple-minded extreme new age therapies. It shows how a balanced life can be the healthiest ... Read More

3.The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (The Earth Chronicles) by: Zecharia Sitchin March 25, 2008
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The chapter on the antikythera mechanism alone is worth buying the book. The whole Earth Crhonicles series makes sense of what accepted history cannot explain, along with evolution. A must read for those who are not afraid to learn the facts even if it shakes their world from the nonsense they were taught in school. Yes it is upsetting to think of spending money tolearn rubbish in learning institutions but better to know and leave that behind than stay in the dark one's whole life.

4.The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 by: Brian M. Fagan December 24, 2001
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Superbly done. The book really hammers out the crucial points of how dramatic historical events were somehow related to violent climate shifts that lasted over 500 years. The book examines origins of these violent climate shifts, discusses life during the middle ages and talks about intriguing topics of world events shaped by global climate. Such famous events are the French Revolution, Bubonic Plague of the 1300's, Potato Irish Famine, JamesTown to name just a few. The Arthur is very to the point and uses excellent statistics and data to back things up. Truly an epic book that will completely change your outlook on history forever. Its only 200 pages and can be finished in a weekend. Get it and enjoy.

5.Fingerprints of the Gods (Alternative History) by: Graham Hancock 1997-08
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I want to like Graham more than I do. He seems like a nice british chap, writes a good story and obviously has loads of passion. But like many oter books in this genre he leaves a lot of stones unturned that are right in front of him. Some examples: Hancock loves to reference the Piri Reis map as conclusive evidence that ancient seafarers existed thousands of years ago and the infomation in the Piri Reis map is evidence of this. However the chinese were, 1 or 2 hundred years before the Piri Reis map was drawn up, exploring many corners of the globe, had a civilisation considered more advanced than europe at its time and had a very plausible explanation of why they would sail and map the southern seas including antarctica. Hancock fails to even bring the ancient chinese sea explorers into the ... Read More

6.The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by: Bryan Sykes July 09, 2001
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Mr. Skyes narrates his lifetime investigations and his team's discoveries in genetics and merges them with his knowledge of history, archaeological findings (like pottery style and design) and human migrations. This part I found very interesting, although I know there are diverging opinions regarding the two main migrations that are described; in each of the two cases this book is an excellent account of one side of the debate. Mr. Skyes writes with such passion about his point of view and the wrongness of the other scientists, that it makes the story far more interesting and I am definitely compelled to read the other side of it. The book explains in an easy to read and understandable way the basics of DNA markers and how we can trace our female ancestors through mitochondrial DNA. By means of analyzing ... Read More

7.The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour by: Ruth M. Wright, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra 2001-04
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I bought this book in preparation for going to hike the Inca Trail. Great info!

8.The Last Days of the Incas by: Kim MacQuarrie June 05, 2008
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Last Days of the Incas is a splendid book, a complex story well told. Readable and compelling. What I particularly enjoyed: bookending the narrative of fall of the Inca empire with the 20th century hunt for Machu Picchu, Vilcabama, and other Inca sites; inspired comparisons, such as between Wall Street IPOs and conquest expeditions; observations from Machiavelli in the chapter headings, a reminder of how timeless is the tale of an empire's self-destruction. Dan

9.The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by: Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein May 28, 2002
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Ancient Israel was not an empire of great cities but was a tiny kingdom. The spell-binding saga of the Exodus was not a historic epic but was a moving product of human imagination. Many of the stories happened in a different era than portrayed in the Bible; many were exaggerated and misrepresented; some didn't happen at all. Here's just one example of how we know this: The stories of the patriarchs are loaded with camels but archeology clearly tells us camels were not domesticated and widely used until centuries later. The camel caravan in the Joseph story carried gum, balm, & myrhh, products of 7th & 8th century BCE trade during the Assyrian empire, but not before. Likewise, numerous cities, significant in the 7th & 8th centuries BCE, were mentioned in Genesis, but were either non-existent ... Read More

10.The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by: David W. Anthony November 19, 2007
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This book came highly recommended in a publication I read on a regular basis. I was really disappointed, because it sounded so interesting. There was too much concentration on the minutiae of linguistics, especially for the average reader. It was so tedious that I gave up reading it.

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