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The Man Who Invented the Calendar
Author | : B. J. Novak |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781408705995 |
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The Man Who Invented the Calendar provides a taster of the darkly hilarious treasures that can be found in B. J. Novak's One More Thing. We'll meet a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; find out how February got its name; and learn the truth about the icing on carrot cake.
One More Thing
Author | : B. J. Novak |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780385351843 |
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New York Times Bestseller A startlingly original debut from the actor, writer, director, and executive producer hailed as “a gifted observer of the human condition and a very funny writer capable of winning that rare thing: unselfconscious, insuppressible laughter” (The Washington Post). A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down. Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
Adam s Calendar
Author | : Johan Heine,Michael Tellinger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105131278843 |
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Archaeological discoveries that answer the questions concerning the origins of man.
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls
Author | : Jane MacLaren Walsh,Brett Topping |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781789200966 |
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Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban; this book also explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.
Divining the Etruscan World
Author | : Jean MacIntosh Turfa |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139536400 |
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The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.
The life of Bacon
Author | : Francis Bacon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : UGA:32108041708622 |
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The Works of Francis Bacon Lord Chancellor of England
Author | : Francis Bacon,Basil Montagu |
Publsiher | : Philadelphia : Parry & McMillan |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105004995010 |
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Anno Domini
Author | : Georges Declercq |
Publsiher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Calendar |
ISBN | : UVA:X004548114 |
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The most successful dating system the world has ever known is that based on the 'Year of the Lord' (Anno Domini) - the Christian era. It was created in AD 525 by a Scythian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, primarily as a means of numbering Easters. Today, this system for reckoning time is used globally and is by no means restricted to adherents of Christianity. The present essay aims to describe not only the origins and the early development of the Dionysian system, from its invention until its adoption throughout Western Europe in the course of the eleventh century, but also its antecedents in Late Antiquity and the general context in which this era was conceived. The result is a broad chronological and geographical survey, encompassing developments over a period of a thousand years in both Latin Christendom and the Byzantine East. Georges Declercq takes the reader through the emergence of the Alexandrian and Byzantine ears of creation, the vexed question of the Easter or Paschal controversy, the computistical works of Victorius of Aquitaine and Dionysius Exiguus, and the role of the Anglo-Saxons in the manner in which Dionysius came to fix the incarnation of Christ in AD 1. This comprehensive survey is directed to both specialists and non-specialists and will be indispensable for any reader interested in early Christian chronology.