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Author | : Martin Jones |
Publisher | : Skyhorse |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 162872479X |
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In Unlocking the Past, Martin Jones, a leading expert at the forefront of bioarchaeology—the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park—explains how this pioneering science is rewriting human history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been told before. For the first time, the building blocks of ancient life—DNA, proteins, and fats that have long been trapped in fossils and earth and rock—have become widely accessible to science. Working at the cutting edge of genetic and other molecular technologies, researchers have been probing the remains of these ancient biomolecules in human skeletons, sediments and fossilized plants, dinosaur bones, and insects trapped in amber. Their amazing discoveries have influenced the archaeological debate at almost every level and continue to reshape our understanding of the past. Devising a molecular clock from a certain area of DNA, scientists were able to determine that all humans descend from one common female ancestor, dubbed "Mitochondrial Eve," who lived around 150,000 years ago. From molecules recovered from grinding stones and potsherds, they reconstructed ancient diets and posited when such practices as dairying and boiling water for cooking began. They have reconstituted the beer left in the burial chamber of pharaohs and know what the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter found in the Alps in the early nineties, ate before his last journey. Conveying both the excitement of innovative research and the sometimes bruising rough-and-tumble of scientific debate, Jones has written a work of profound importance. Unlocking the Past is science at its most engaging.
Author | : Gill Pugh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429752733 |
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Published in 1999, this text explores the impact of access to child care records, specifically upon adults who grew up in the care of Barnardo's. Most of the adults studied had reached their middle years with little or no knowledge of their family background or reasons for admission to care. The book researches the links between quality of care in childhood and the intensity of "need to know" about origins in later life. It looks at the complex process of assimilating information, and the need for such information to be imparted with skillful judgement and sensitivity. The implications for service provision for those seeking access to their records is highlighted, as well as for current child care practitioners. Requests for access to care records at Barnardo's have grown from around 1500 a year prior to 1995, to several thousand in one month alone following media publicity about the opening up of Barnardo's records. Other organizations are just beginning to recognize the growing demands for this service. This text aims to use these studies to examine the impact, particularly upon sense of identity, of ignorance about one's origins and the effects of acquiring such information later in life
Author | : Grace Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780727852878 |
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The Griffithses live at the edge of town and at the edge of convention. Two weddings and the promise of others, a revelation about an affair, death and the birth of new hope, all have their place as a year passes in the small Welsh town of Pendragon Island. The third in the Pendragon Island series.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Phillimore |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeff Lasseigne |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781441214058 |
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The very title of the last book of the Bible means "unveiling." Yet this mysterious and confusing book seems to do anything but unveil, especially when we read it on our own. Unlocking the Last Days takes readers through key parts of this misunderstood book, using a verse-by-verse approach that clearly communicates God's truth, warnings, and promises. Both Bible teachers and students will find this book a welcome aid to understanding an intriguing piece of the Scriptures.
Author | : David Carder |
Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1575675242 |
Download Unlocking Your Family Patterns Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether you're just not sure). Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decades worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health. Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for.
Author | : Jennifer Lawless |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9780170091510 |
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Author | : John Darwin |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141992808 |
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From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to Montreal, Bombay to Singapore, Calcutta to Shanghai), individual stories and original ideas, Darwin's book allows us, for better or worse, to see the modern age taking shape.
Author | : L.M. Elliot |
Publisher | : Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1409591344 |
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Shot down on a mission, 19-year-old bomber pilot Henry is alone in a treacherous land. Desperate to get back to his family and the girl he loves, he is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers and the cunning of the French Resistance. But in his battle to survive the deadly journey across Nazi-occupied Europe, he must face a terrible choice: can he take someone's life to save his own?
Author | : Matthew Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Isle of Man |
ISBN | : 9780901106643 |
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Described as a useful guide for family historians and local history enthusiasts, Unlocking The Past explains which records are important, how they fit together, and how records in the Isle of Man can be used alongside worldwide sources.With numerous illustrations, case studies and examples, the book offers new insights into why Manx family and local history is unique.The book is also a guide to the major repositories holding Manx-related material, including the digital resources in the iMuseum.