books about: prehistory     books:       History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology10 reviews Scott A. Johnson Permuted Press, 2007 Great read, looking for book 2 Loved the book! The story about how the Chicago fire started was a hoot! Wasn't expecting such a variety of zombie stories, they were all written very well. Will there be a book #2?             Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #4: Outcast (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)5 reviews Michelle Paver Katherine Tegen Books, 2008 Total Original Story This story gets you deeper into the secrets of Torak, Renn, and the forest. Torak is banished from the clans because of his worst secrect. Being in outcast Torak is not able to talk to Renn unless she is an outcast too. During his adventures Torak meets two very smart crows. Read this book to find out what these two crows help Torak with and many other secrets. ...             Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #3: Soul Eater (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)9 reviews Michelle Paver HarperTrophy, 2008 Great Series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #3: Soul Eater (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) This series if wonderful. My son and I started reading this together as a school project. We have purchased all three books and enjoy the time together reading. This is a book that keeps me interested as well as keeping him interested and reading!             The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern40 reviews Carol Strickland Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2007 Couldn't have passed my Art Content Praxis without this book!!! I bought this book to review for the Art Content Praxis. It's been about 20 years since my art history classes so I definitely needed a refresher. Although, I did remember a lot and reviewed other books, this book put me over the top. It's fast paced and easy to read! Short highlights to remind you of things you may have forgot and adds what you may have missed.             Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival52 reviews Velma Wallis Harper Perennial, 2004 Don't Underestimate an Older Person In this well-told tale of two tribewomen who are in their old age we see what determination can do. Having earned the respect of their tribe these two women have been content to let others do for them over the years. But their age hinders the tribespeople's movements and they are facing a brutal winter. The chief makes the decision to turn these two out into the harshness of the bleak Alaskan ...             Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #1: Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)56 reviews Michelle Paver HarperTrophy, 2006 WOLF BROTHER IS COOL I am 9. Wolf brother is REALY REALY REALY Good. It is one of the best books in the world. Maybe even in the GALAXY. Or the UNIVERSE. It is one of the best books I have ever read. I like the ending. It is exciting. WARNING: this book is not for the faint hearted. If you faint if you hear the word blood this book is not for you. But do not get the wrong impression. This book is not ...             Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #2: Spirit Walker (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)26 reviews Michelle Paver HarperTrophy, 2007 A great book to read with your kids I read this (and the previous book) to my son (9 y.o.). We both loved it. We constantly shared ideas about the possible explanations of the events in the book and the possible outcomes. Great bonding experience!             Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of ...27 reviews Bear & Company, 2005 Still hoping............ I have been reading ALL this stuff for at least 35+ years. I still have all of it (including dear old Von Danniken)and NOBODY EVER "proves" anything! Indus Valley script still an enigma? That "Keeper of Antiquities" clown in Egypt who accepts foreign money for exploration, then slaps the lid on the results? On and on goes the list of teases...but never anything DEFINITIVE. Because where I ...             The Bronze Bow94 reviews Elizabeth George Speare Houghton Mifflin, 1997 Even better the second time around! I read this with two of my children a handful of years ago and just recently, for the second time, with my youngest. It's even better than I remembered! Others have summed up the plot very well, so I'll just say, this is an excellent book!             The Humanistic Tradition, Volume 1: Prehistory to the Early Modern World2 reviews Gloria K. Fiero McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2005 Fascinating. This book is used as a college textbook, and with good reason. It is a fascinating overview of the humanistic tradition. It should be required reading in high school.             Before the Pharaohs: Egypt's Mysterious Prehistory13 reviews Edward F. Malkowski Bear & Company, 2005 A book with real evidence! The previous reviewer had a very reasonable complaint that the book was difficult to wade through because of the sheer volume of material devoted to seemingly irrelevant evidence. I would counter that many of the other books which delve into the prehistory of Egypt are sorely lacking in evidence. Saying something like "Aliens from Atlantis founded Egypt" would need a LOT of evidence to back it ...             The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and ...6 reviews David C. Lindberg University Of Chicago Press, 2008 Clearly the best ancient/medieval science text that exists! I read the Beginnings of Western Sceince as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I had the extreme priviledge of taking two history of science courses from the author, who is also an absolutely outstanding professor. (And also one of the two or three most knowledgeable people in the world in the history of medieval science) This is by far the most comprehensive text on the ...             The Boy of the Painted Cave23 reviews Justen Denzel Putnam Juvenile, 1996 Realistic Great Book!!!! My class is using this book to learn about cavemen and it is a great book. The author learned about cavemen before he wrote the story so most of the things written in the book are based on something that actually happened.It is a great adventure and mystery book so you should read it. Also, you learn about what cavemen did. You find out what they do, what they wore,and their beliefs. Read it soon!             The First Dog6 reviews Jan Brett Voyager Books, 1992 Wonderful Book The First Dog is truely a wonderful book. I run a day care and this book is the favorite of all the children. We have all of Jan Brett's book yet this one remains the most requested. Thank you Jan Brett for bringing so much pleasure to so many children!             Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (Modern Library Chronicles) Colin Renfrew Modern Library, 2008 In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records?which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term ?prehistory? itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light. Renfrew begins by looking ...             People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory (12th Edition)2 reviews Brian M. Fagan Prentice Hall, 2006 A decent introduction to world prehistory "People of the Earth" is not the first of Fagan's books I have read; I studied "Clash of Cultures" for another purpose, although it allowed me to learn the author's style. Fagan is often perceived as "wordy" by most students, but I refuse to carry such a pernicious, pejorative burden in my critical rhetoric. I must acknowledge that here, as in "Clash of Cultures," it seems he devoted more time ...             The PreHistory of The Far Side ®:: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit (Far Side Series)40 reviews Gary Larson Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1989 Essential book for "Far Side" fans So you've got the massive two-volume "Complete Far Side" and figure you're all set, Gary Larson-wise. If so, you're a few cows short of a herd, because you need this book to round out your collection. It's not just a collection of his comics. The book has a discussion of how his career as a cartoonist got started and has examples of his previous effort, a one-newspaper comic in the same style ...             The First Americans: Prehistory-1600 A History of US Book 1 (History of US)2 reviews Joy Hakim Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 If only history class would have been this exciting... ...I might not have used it for nap-time! This series - The History of US - covers the history of the people of the United States. It is written in language that 8-12 year olds can easily understand. Difficult words are have accompanying pronunciations and definitions. My 8 year old daughter and I are reading this series together and out loud. She finds it fascinating and a real page ...             People of the Weeping Eye (First North Americans)12 reviews W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear Forge Books, 2008 People of the Weeping Eye I am from Alabama and when I saw the book was based on the life of the Native Americans living in Alabama and at Moundville I just had to read it.And again W. Michael and Kathleen Geardid a wonderful job with the historical novel bringing the people at Moundville back to life.I enjoyed the book so very much I could not put it down.I was so impressed with the book that I referred it to my ...              search for books americans, anniversary, annotated, anthology, beginnings, betrayal, chronicles, civilization, darkness, european, extraterrestrial, forbidden, humanistic, institutional, intervention, introduction, mysterious, origins, pharaohs, philosophical, post-modern, prehistoric, prehistory, prehistory-1600, religious, scientific, suppressed, survival, technologies, tradition books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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