Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780349135793ISBN:0349135797
Description: A good reading copy only. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. Wear to cover and spine. -, Trade PaperBack, Good / read more
Description: Good paperback. 16mo, paperback, 284pp. edgewear, scrapes, spine creases, taped tear spine top, rubbing, scratches, cover. front end page loosened at top, corners bumped, yellowed, clean, tight, text. some stiffness at gutter so should be opened with gentleness. ufo's. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Covers show some creasing and age browning. Prev owner's name written on first page. Pages moderately age browned. No markings to text. No creasing to spine. Tight binding. 288 p.; 18 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. 1968
Date Published: 1968
Description: ISBN. Mass Market Paperback First Printing as stated on the copyright page. Tight sound copy with average cover wear and some spine creasing but pretty much a tight sound reading copy only due to a distinct musty odor to the book. read more
Description: ISBN-13: 9780067181065, ISBN-10: 0067181062, Format: Paperback, Publisher: Pocket Books. 1977. Very good plus. Would be near fine if not for 1/4" chip off front cover and small crease inside back cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell Laurel, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good ++ Mass market paperback reprint of this 1955 classic, 288 pages; spine creased and slightly rolled, neat clear tape repair to spine bottom, clean and unmarked throughout. read more
Edition: 6th Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Dell Laurel, U.S.
Date Published: 1973
Description: Very Good- Square solid copy with a reading crease along spine on front cover, 3" and 4.5" creases on front cover, small corner creases on back cover, and covers show light wear. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sphere
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780067152461ISBN:0067152465
Description: Good. Book cover-The cover of this book is creased or has markings in accordance with the book's age. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., New York, N.Y., USA
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Binding is tight, the bottom corners are shelf rubbed; yellowing to the covers; some pitting to the rear joint surface for 1"; page 15 top corner is dog-eared. "[This book] presents documentation of global catastrophies in prehistorical and in historical times-the clear, unequivocal testimony of bones and stones. Significantly this evidence from the natural sciences indicates that these great disturbances which rocked our globe were caused by forces outside ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Book Club Edition. Jacket shows some edge wear, moderate age browning and some soiling. Large circular indentation on back of jacket and back board. Pages lightly age browned. Text unmarked. Tight binding. 301 p.; 22 cm. read more
Edition: Reprint with Revisions
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Abacus/Sphere Books, London, UK
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780349135762ISBN:0349135762
Description: Near Fine- 263 pages. Square tight binding with uncreased spine and cover and unmarked clean pages. Light cover edge rubbing and paper edge slightly browning. read more
Edition: Later printing(s)
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: N.Y. : Dell, 1969, Later Printing
ISBN-13:9780671810641ISBN:0671810642
Description: Dall Cover Illustration. Very Good. ----------paperback, Very Good, 288 pages, contents include: In the North: In Alaska; The Ivory Islands; Revolution: The Erratic Boulders; Sea & Land Changed Places; The Caves of England; The Aquatic Graveyards. : Uniformity: The Doctrine of Uniformity; The Hippopotamus; Icebergs; Darwin in South America; Ice: The Birth of the Ice Age Theory; On the Russian Plains; Ice Age in the Tropics; Greenland; Corals of the Polar Regions; Whales in the Mountains; Tidal ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Science / Natural History. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Tenth Printing. Book is clean and tightly bound with unmarked text, bright pages and minor shelfwear. No DJ. read more
"Velikovsky’s epic first book, Worlds In Collision (WiC), tells of ‘battles of the planets’; his 2nd, Ages In Chaos, reconstructs Ancient history by synchronizing end of Egyptian Middle Kingdom with Exodus, both witness to a great world catastrophe. And in this book, his 3rd, revolutionizes the earth sciences. If legends and traditions mean what they say as alleged in WiC, this book answers to what physical “scars” are evident on earth, participant in these “celestial wars”. And the reader will be astounded with plenty of examples, from field works of earth scientists and reports from explorers. Carefully using just testimonies of ‘bones and stones’, he boldly proposes the forces shaping many features on earth came from ‘without’.
The book, well thought out and organized, starts with an Introduction then Acknowledgment, which he expresses his ‘indebtedness to the many experts in their fields’, Einstein included. The main body is finely divided into chapters and further into sections, covering many parts of the world where specific geological and paleontological features are noteworthy. Before the Index are chapters ‘The End’, where he discusses his conclusion, and the ‘Supplement’, a transcript of his address to the graduate students of Princeton university, where he discusses recent finds in ‘light of WiC’, still very relevant today.
This author speaks at your level, not over you; he strives for all to understand. His book is not dry; is very informative, very imagination challenging, even dramatic, is novel-like, even poetic, and at same time very disturbing, too.
Even the first page is startling, the first of many jolts contrary to the “long long time ago” mantra of official geology and paleontology: a 'great slaughter of animals in the millions... found mixed along with uprooted trees and volcanic ash, deposited catastrophically in the muck throughout Alaska’, as was written by a university investigator; and in northern Siberia is the same spectacle of destroyed animals cemented together with splintered trees in ice and bitumen, as was reported by explorers and fur traders two centuries ago. To Velikovsky both these areas have a common connection and catastrophic origins must be considered. And elsewhere around the world, on land and sea, from arctic regions to the tropics, the deserts to the mountains, are more sites that demonstrate unequivocally violent upheavals of a global nature, which caused extinction of many forms of life.
And even Charles Darwin saw with his own eyes, while sailing along the coast of the Americas on board the Beagle, the demise of the Pleistocene animals great and small, and pondered in his notes: ‘…we must shake the entire framework of the globe’!
A must read this book is for academics and general public alike, whether one agrees or not with his theories. For this author-scholar, the espouser of a tremendous heresy, clarifies brilliantly just what the two pillars of today’s secular beliefs are: The theory of Evolution and the doctrine of Uniformity (geology of slow incremental changes through the eons), as conceived by Darwin and Lyell respectively. Since Velikovsky’s visions are so counter to the accepted creed of today’s popular earth and space sciences, he lays his case carefully how today’s accepted interpretations came about, and why in the end are to be regarded as flawed.
Most significant and interesting is the review of the Mechanisms of Evolution. The surprising irony is that to ‘rescue’ the concept of Evolution as a ‘realistic mechanism’, there is need of Darwin’s greatest enemy: - Catastrophism! How species with superior attributes could succumb in the ‘competition of the fittest’ would be explained if the very arena itself, where the ‘competition’ took place, rose up and made the end of the ‘contestants’.
So yes, there is Evolution, BUT, between each Tectonic Revolution!
Thus is introduced a new concept of ‘Cataclysmic Evolution’.
Velikovsky offers new ways of looking at some familiar geological features, to name a few:
In North America, eruptions of thousands feet of lava out of fissures formed the Columbian Plateau (encompassing Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington): modern Lyellian Geology of “the Present is the Key to the Past” definitely fails here.
The causes of Ice Ages: – A Shifting of the Earth’s Axis? – Then, BOILING of the oceans?
Here is seen origin of vast release of vapors – Precipitations, falling as snow in higher latitudes, as rain in lower. Thus, Heat, as well as Cold, contributed to the Ice Ages! And, accompanying great fall of snow, that formed the glaciers, was concurrent great fall of rain, the Pluvial Age, during which great furrows were “trenched” into and across the continents to form great riverbeds and tributaries.
Coal, instead of formed by slow deposition of decomposition and sedimentation, is rather the result of atomization of trees, leaves, insects, etc caused by violent upheaval of the wind, and then rapid burial.
Evidence of impacts and even ‘avalanches’ of meteorites abound, such as the fields of black and broken stones called ‘harras’ in deserts of Arabia, and the Carolina Bays, where many thousands of aligned elliptical shaped ‘bays’, or impressions, are scattered throughout the Eastern United States.
In chapter ‘Continent Torn Apart’ he discusses origin of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, of which according to an explorer ‘…whatever force responsible, must have been of world wide dimension’.
And quoting from early 20th century geologist, Eduard Suess, author of The Face of the Earth: ‘Numerous examples of great mountain chains suggest by their structure…episodic disturbances of such indescribable and overpowering violence, that the imagination refuses to follow the understanding…’
Can anyone imagine experiencing earthquakes of such magnitude, covering the entire world?
If one REALLY tries to imagine perhaps REASONINGS will follow.
As data indicate to the ‘powers from without’: shifting of the Earth’s axis, changes of geographic poles, and rotation of the lithosphere, the author makes point to the critics of his WiC that geologist and astronomers the late 19th & early 20th century DID discuss forces ‘from without’, though never reaching a consensus on what those agents could be.
Immanuel Velikovsky, in his WiC, made the final step in identifying those agents.
And what a “storm” of controversy he stirred up, still unabated today!
But for Earth in Upheaval…
Whatever those agents were, he said it best: ‘…must have been of titanic power’."
"I love this author !!!
I love his writing style !!!
I love his composition !!!
I love his logic and bibliography !!!
I ONLY wish our country were not so embellished and politically saturated with fictionalized Catholicism in bed with bogus and bigoted Nazism "racism" while joining together to create and promulgate fables and propaganda."
"Spellbinding, rational explanations for many unexplained events in geology and other fields with many referenses from all over the world from studies of a tremendous upheaval during historical times that wiped out most of the living creatures on earth including man."
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