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Near fine in Very good jacket. Near fine/VGC. Watkins Publishing, 2004. First UK edition-first impression. Black hardback(gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, two small nicks and dent on the edges of the cover and spine) in near fine condition, with Dj(very small tear, creases and small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC. Illustrated with colour, b/w photos, drawings, diagrams. Nice and clean pages with two small creases and nick on the edges of the pages, light shelf wear on the Dj cover.256pp including List of plates, appendices 1 to 7, index. Price un-clipped.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Ex-library book with stamps on the first page, it is also likely to have a small shelf number sticker on the spine.
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Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Good. Hardcover This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
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258p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. As new, except for a few light indentations on the back (not torn). Text clean and binding tight. Postulates the existence of a "first civilization" that devised units of measurement upon which our current measuring systems are based.
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
This book is so bad it's almost good. You have to find pseudo-science entertaining, but if you do, this one delivers the goods. Starting with advice (p. 9-10) about how to think in a way that makes their book more plausible (hint: it's not to think rationally or in a linear fashion, since if you do, their whole premise will fall apart!), the authors quickly move on to the hilarious straw-man argument that archaeology is somehow focused only on "history," and not "pre-history," which is then seen as a blank page needing to be filled (p. 12).
And that's just the beginning! This book is only the opening salvo, their next book apparently suggests that people from the future built the moon, which is one of the most ridiculous ideas ever concocted.
One of the most strikingly clumsy bits comes when they wrestle with the problem of the supposedly most ancient units of measure being "earth commensurate" (p. 29). The authors see the problem, that there would have to have been an unknown, already fully established measuring system in place for the creation of new"earth commensurate" units (for which there is absolutely no evidence), and yet declare "After some thought we realized that this was not a problem at all." No? It isn't a problem to explain the unknown origins of linear measurement by doubling the size of the problem? Now we need to fill two blanks instead one!
The only way this could be funnier would be if it wasn't taken seriously by anyone, which is unfortunately not the case. Nowhere near as brilliantly bad as Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision," but still a terrific entertainment value if you can find it cheap.
