History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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One word: Incredible. Incredible. Incredibly Incredible.
Disappointing
excellent work.
My first book by Amis
One of Amis's best but...

London Fields
Martin Amis
Manufacturer: Harmony
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ASIN: 0517577186
Release Date: 1990-02-17

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London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?

"A comic murder mystery, an apocalyptic satire, a scatological meditation on love and death and nuclear winter...by turns lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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One word: Incredible. Incredible. Incredibly Incredible........2007-06-10

A mistress of seduction, having `come to the end of men' and a belief in the possibility of love, seeks her own murder--and sets about ruining the lives of two very different men in order to bring it about. The narrator of the novel--a self-described failure at art and love--is terminally ill and now rapidly failing at life, too; he's set himself the task of chronicling the rather ignoble efforts of Nicola Six and her pyrrhic dual seduction. The proceedings are set against an ominously looming worldwide crisis of nuclear and climactic proportions.

That, in maybe an eggshell, is the plot of *London Fields.* A nice enough hook, but as in any Amis novel, it's the execution that has you swallow the line and sinker, too. No one writes like Martin Amis. No one. Pity, too. It's poetry, in great parts, his style--an epic metropolitan voice as if Homer had been reborn in London with a wicked sense of humor, both castle and gutter, and a penchant for writing about deadbeats, sex-obsessed middle-aged guys, and a world gargling down the toilet-tube.

How even a sub-intelligent reader can possibly run his eyeballs over this novel and see in it only cynicism, nastiness, disgust, and mocking hatred is beyond comprehension. Are they paying attention to what Amis has actually written right there on the page in black and white--or only what has been written *about* him?

*London Fields,* like much of Amis' work is a deeply-felt and elegiac novel that is actually quite heartbreaking in its inimitable way. Rude, often crude, scalding and scornful, relentlessly, unrepentantly bleak--yes, that's all true, thank God, but Amis' style...and what a style!...is a corrosive that strips away all self-serving illusion and sentimentality to expose the skeleton of the last honest humanism still possible.

Here is Amis on one of his characters in *London Fields*:

`In the book, she stood for something. In the flesh, she was pointless: a complete waste of time. Or not quite. In the flesh, she broke your heart, as all human beings do. I watched her, an older man, failed in art and love. Fat ankles. Dear flesh.'

A waste of time that breaks your heart. In a sense, that sums up Amis' view on life, love, history, and existence itself as presented in *London Fields.* But the vitriolic comedy and famous disgust that Amis directs towards and lavishes upon everyone and everything is, in fact, the lament of the idealist who sees how very very far short human beings fall from anything even a kissing cousin of humanity.

His exaggerated characters, yes, arguably caricatures, are nevertheless uncomfortably familiar and that's precisely what makes their misdeeds and misadventures so uncomfortably compelling--and, I suspect, arouses so much wrath in those who consider the truth to be bad taste. These are, indeed, people we `know,' and sometimes even love; worse still, if we could stop the automatic monkey finger-pointing for five minutes, we realize these people are *us.*

Five stars, if that's all I can give it. *London Fields* deserves at the very least a small constellation of them.

Disappointing.......2006-10-02

Martin Amis' long (perhaps long-winded) novel about a femme fatale-psychic who is predisposed to being murdered as she entraps Keith Talent, a brutish dart player, and Guy Clinch, a struggling writer into her web of seduction and deceit. Amis pads this thin story with typically entertaining and satisfying scenarios that he seems to have a knack for, but the novel just isn't nearly as interesting as his Information or Money. At some point during the project, Amis lost touch with the original force of his conception, and you can tell that the rest of the material is simply a weak attempt to complete the aborted project. Not a bad read, but probably too much of a commitment for the quality, even among fans of Amis' usually interesting prose.

excellent work........2006-08-21

although it has the slightly dated flavor of Y2K hysteria,
the characters, dialogue and character descriptions are
perfect. amis has a way of using single sentences to mean
multiple, sometimes ironically contradictory things, and
this only adds to the informational content inherent in
every word. he is truly a master of the english language,
if not a master of writing the ending to a novel. enjoy it
for what it's worth, which is a virtuoso use of the english
language.

My first book by Amis.......2006-08-14

Good read. The plot is sort of metaphysical and a little stretched: Nicola Six is going to be killed by someone (we don't know who) because of her sexual deviations. She is basically arranging her own murder. Two characters are chosen by her for this mission, and she is building up her scheme to get them to hate and eventually kill her.

It is a nice relaxing read. Authors narrative is catchy and skillful, his sense of humour is great. Characters are very alive and not trivial. I was a little disappointed by the ending, but overall aftertaste of the book is good. I will read other books by Martin Amis.

One of Amis's best but..........2006-01-04

London Fields is (as Amis confessed himself) a novella that somehow sprawled out into a 500 or so page novel. For such a long book, very little happens. Nicola Six (pronounced seeks) knows she is to be murdered, the question is by whom? - anachronistic, aristocratic, intellectual, Guy Clinch (representing the decline of the aristocracy and high culture), or his social and cultural opposite, the picaresque, working class, darts playing con man Keith Talent whose obsession with TV and pornography allows Amis to explore his Baudrillardian concerns with the increasing falseness of post modern reality.

The novel is a metafiction. The story is written by failed and dying, Jewish American writer Sampson Young, who discovers the story when he finds Nicola Six's discarded diaries and realises he has a chance to simply write down a great novel without having to make anything up. The narrative is interjected with short chapters, narrated by Young himself who becomes increasingly involved in the plot.

All this is fine. Amis as a Nabokovian, playful, reflexive stylist is on top form. But Amis's main problem as a writer is that he isn't content to be merely a stylist in the Nabokovian mould, he wants to be profound as well like Saul Bellow. Thus he set the story in a fictional future (an apocalyptic 1999, with London on the brink of some vaguely specified environmental/nuclear apocalypse called 'the crisis'). There are obvious references to nuclear weapons: Nicola Six has an invented friend called Enola Gay, she taunts Keith Talent by wearing a bikini (as in Atoll). The idea of all of this seems to be to create a simulated apocalypse which parallels the breakdown of post modern society. But like so many writers who try and pin down a zeitgeist in one, overarching metaphor, the imagery Amis uses in these sections of the book comes across as overstretched.

If only Amis had taken a leaf from his hero Nabokov, who warned against the dangers of 'big ideas' in novels. In inteviews, Nabokov declaimed against 'Poshlost' - a Russian term, with no clear translation in English, but roughly meaning vulgarity, social comment, political allegories, bloated topicalities. (see 'Strong Opinions' p100). Novels that trade in grand ideas run the risk of seeming like large whales which can be left floundering when the tide goes out. Now that we have reached 2006 and the Cold War is long gone, I wonder if Amis feels he was a bit silly to set a 1989 novel in an apocalyptic, turn of the Millennium London?

Local Fields (London Mathematical Society Student Texts)

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Local Fields (London Mathematical Society Student Texts)
J. W. S. Cassels
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Introductory Lectures on Rings and Modules (London Mathematical Society Student Texts)

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Introductory Lectures on Rings and Modules (London Mathematical Society Student Texts)
John A. Beachy
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Clear and concise........2005-01-25

This is a nice little book. It's pretty thorough despite its size, and though dense it is clear enough to be easy to follow.

Structured Ring Spectra (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)

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The prominent role of multiplicative cohomology theories has led to a great deal of foundational research recently on ring spectra within the field of algebraic topology. This has given rise to significant new approaches to constructing categories of spectra and ring-like objects in them. These essays contain important new contributions to the theory of structured ring spectra as well as survey papers describing relationships between them.

Integral Closure of Ideals, Rings, and Modules (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)

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Integral Closure of Ideals, Rings, and Modules (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)
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Galois Representations in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)

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London Marathon, The: The History of the Greatest Race On Earth

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London Marathon, The: The History of the Greatest Race On Earth
John Bryant
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ASIN: 0099484358
Release Date: 2006-05-23

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The Field Description of Igneous Rocks (Geological Society of London Handbook Series)

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The Field Description of Igneous Rocks (Geological Society of London Handbook Series)
Richard Thorpe , and Geoffrey Brown
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ASIN: 0471932752

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Geological Society of London Handbook Series Edited by Keith Cox Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London has been publishing since 1845 and now distributes its journal to Fellows throughout the world. This handbook is published as part of a series of authoritative practical guides to field geology. The Field Description of Igneous Rocks Written to complement textbooks on igneous petrology, this handbook equips the student with all the information required to study igneous rocks in the field. It deals with observations from the scale of hand specimens and outcrops to regional mapping of field relationships. Igneous rocks range from volcanic rocks erupted at the Earth's surface to plutonic rocks which crystallised at depth within the Earth,and the techniques to study these differ from those used for the field study in other volumes in this series. `…its genuine "handbook" size, flexible cover and realistic price should make it an affordable part of field equipment for all geology students.' R. A. Howie, Mineralogical Magazine

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WASTE OF MONEY.......2007-05-06

This book and the other one (on metamorphic rocks from the Geological Society of London) are worthless pieces of garbage. All pictures are poor quality black and white and on some pages the words are so close to the center of the book they are hard to read. What a waste of money. When they first arrived I thought I had been scammed. I thought someone went to the local copy store, copied these books and then sold me the low quality copy. Information in the book is ok but seems obvious. These books are not field identification guides. They only tell you how to describe a rock and dont help identify anything. They just tell you how the British would rewrite your notes. I am a geologist and have no use for these books and will never trust anything from the Geological society of London again. I mean low quality black and white pictures in a geology book? How the hell is that gonna help?? WASTE OF MONEY!!!!!!

overpriced.......2007-01-05

This book does have some wonderful information but it is a combination of elementary geology and advanced petrology. It is more a discussion on the formation of igneous rocks not an actual description. It is way overpriced! A great disappointment.

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