The Moon has confounded scientists for many years. It does not obey the known rules of astrophysics and there is no coherent theory of its origin - in fact, it should not really be there. When researching the ancient Stone Age system of geometry and measurement, which they revealed in their previous book, Civilization One, the authors were ...
The bestselling "America's Dumbest Criminals" now goes international, revealing a United Nations of Ignorami. "The World's Dumbest Criminals" investigates Frenchmen who fumble felonies, Brits without wits, and Aussies who can't escape posses because their getaway keeps going in circles. Scheduled to be a four-part television special in the first ...
Revealing the origins of the grail in Goddess religion, this title shows its continuance through Christianity down to modern times, with devotees of the Goddess still at work in the world today. It explains why it was adopted and used, how it existed on different levels to different people and shows what "Grail Knowledge" really was and is.
Despite everyday beliefs, civilization, as we know it, couldn't have existed without the humble sheep. The sheep's importance in providing meat, milk and wool, the basis of our food and clothing for millennia, has never been appreciated. Twenty years ago, Alan Butler set out on a period of research to redress this balance. "Sheep" is the ...
From precinct to precinct across the country, the search goes on. Who are the most incompetent, idiotic, and unlucky criminals in the United States? Only real cops know the truth, and Wanted: Dumb or Alive contains 100 new amazingly funny yet true stories, taken directly from the law enforcement officers who are there to witness them. ...
In "The Warriors and the Bankers", the research and writing team of Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe bring their combined experiences to bear on the question asked for hundreds of years, What became of the Knights Templar? Arrested in 1307, dissolved in 1312 and executed by 1314, the Templars have been the subject of many theories concerning their ...
A collection of nearly 300 of the dumbest stories from the four bestselling "America's Dumbest Criminals" books, along with 40 all-new stories in one handy oversized edition. Illustrations.
Starting from what was, at its time, the most important vision of the Virgin Mary ever to take place in Western Europe, The Virgin and the Pentacle gradually uncovers a virtually unknown war that has been taking place across 1,700 years. This is the story of the battle between the orthodox Catholic Church and Freemasonry, itself the most modern ...
In this wide-ranging and detailed book Alan Richardson addresses many issues in literary and educational history never before examined together. The result is an unprecedented study of how transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it. In chapters focused on ...
In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Richardson breaks new ground in two fields, revealing a significant and undervalued facet of British Romanticism while ...
Interest in the Rosslyn Chapel, featured in the "Da Vinci Code", has reached extraordinary proportions, with hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. This book is responding to that interest by offering the most authentic account of the building of the chapel yet published. John Ritchie, a journalist who was born in the village and whose family ...
When author Alan Butler discovered a 15-centimeter clay disc in a museum in Crete, he set out to unravel the mystery of the spiral by hieroglyphs inscribed on each side. The discovery of this Phaistos Disc crystallized Butlers previous convictions that Bronze Age peoples in Europe had been excellent mathematicians and astronomers.
Following the success of Tung Jen's much acclaimed Chinese Astrology, this title examines in detail the most popular subject within all astrological works -- human relationships. Since its origins thousands of years ago, astrology has had (and continues to have) enormous influence in China -- even in the cynical 20th Century, many millions of ...
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Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
