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Sharks in the Arts

From Feared to Revered

by Vivienne Westbrook, Shaun Collin, Dean Crawford, Mark Nicholls ...

Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The authors consider not only how the identity of sharks in the natural environment became incorporated into a cultural environment but also how sharks came to be considered the most feared creatures in the open ... Read more

$55.99 USD

This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The authors consider not only how the identity of sharks in the natural environment became incorporated into a cultural environment but also how sharks came to be considered the most feared creatures in the open
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The Retina and Circadian Rhythms

Edited by Gianluca Tosini, P. Michael Iuvone, Douglas G. McMahon, Shaun P. Collin ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Daily rhythms are a ubiquitous feature of living systems. Generally, these rhythms are not just passive consequences of cyclic fluctuations in the environment, but instead originate within the organism. In mammals, including humans, the master pacemaker controlling 24-hour rhythms is localized in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus (SCN). This circadian clock is responsible for the ... Read more

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Daily rhythms are a ubiquitous feature of living systems. Generally, these rhythms are not just passive consequences of cyclic fluctuations in the environment, but instead originate within the organism. In mammals, including humans, the master pacemaker controlling 24-hour rhythms is localized in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus (SCN). This circadian clock is responsible for the
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Evolution of Visual and Non-visual Pigments

Edited by David M. Hunt, Mark W. Hankins, N. Justin Marshall, Shaun P Collin ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Photopigments are molecules that react to light and mediate a number of processes and behaviours in animals. Visual pigments housed within the photoreceptors of the eye, such as the rods and cones in vertebrates are the best known, however, visual pigments are increasingly being found in other tissues, including other retinal cells, the skin and the brain. Other closely related molecules from the ... Read more

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Photopigments are molecules that react to light and mediate a number of processes and behaviours in animals. Visual pigments housed within the photoreceptors of the eye, such as the rods and cones in vertebrates are the best known, however, visual pigments are increasingly being found in other tissues, including other retinal cells, the skin and the brain. Other closely related molecules from the
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Santa's Annual Dentist Visit

by Dale R. Collins DDS ...

Illustrated by Shaun Collins ...

In Santa's Annual Dentist Visit, Dr. Dale, the town dentist, faces his biggest challenge of the year-Santa Claus's annual checkup! From Santa's unstoppable laughter to his unruly beard and pipe-smoking habit, Dr. Dale has his hands full. But with a little creativity and some heartwarming moments, he helps Santa get ready for his big night, all while teaching the importance of dental health. This ... Read more

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In Santa's Annual Dentist Visit, Dr. Dale, the town dentist, faces his biggest challenge of the year-Santa Claus's annual checkup! From Santa's unstoppable laughter to his unruly beard and pipe-smoking habit, Dr. Dale has his hands full. But with a little creativity and some heartwarming moments, he helps Santa get ready for his big night, all while teaching the importance of dental health. This
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Gobekli Tepe

Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden

by Andrew Collins ...

Narrated by Shaun Grindell ...

Unabridged

12 hours 33 min

Built at the end of the last ice age, the mysterious stone temple complex of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is one of the greatest challenges to 21st century archaeology. As much as 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, its strange buildings and rings of T-shaped monoliths—built with stones weighing from 10 to 15 tons—show a level of sophistication and artistic achievement unmatched ... Read more

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Built at the end of the last ice age, the mysterious stone temple complex of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is one of the greatest challenges to 21st century archaeology. As much as 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, its strange buildings and rings of T-shaped monoliths—built with stones weighing from 10 to 15 tons—show a level of sophistication and artistic achievement unmatched
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The Cygnus Key

The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt

by Andrew Collins ...

Narrated by Micah Hanks ...

Unabridged

10 hours 5 min

New evidence showing that the earliest origins of human culture, religion, and technology derive from the lost world of the Denisovans• Explains how Göbekli Tepe and the Giza pyramids are aligned with the constellation of Cygnus and show evidence of enhanced sound-acoustic technology• Traces the origins of Göbekli Tepe and the Giza pyramids to the Denisovans, a previously unknown human population ... Read more

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New evidence showing that the earliest origins of human culture, religion, and technology derive from the lost world of the Denisovans• Explains how Göbekli Tepe and the Giza pyramids are aligned with the constellation of Cygnus and show evidence of enhanced sound-acoustic technology• Traces the origins of Göbekli Tepe and the Giza pyramids to the Denisovans, a previously unknown human population
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The Lost Civilization Enigma

A New Inquiry into the Existence of Ancient Cities, Cultures, and Peoples Who Pre-Date Recorded History

by Philip Coppens ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

Are history books giving us the whole story? Or is civilization far more complex and for older than we have been taught?Our school textbooks barely mention the 6,000-year-old Sumerian civilization, yet the latest archaeological findings at sites such as Jericho and, most recently, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, have been dated to 10,000 BC.Civilization goes back at least another 10,000 years, if we are ... Read more

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Are history books giving us the whole story? Or is civilization far more complex and for older than we have been taught?Our school textbooks barely mention the 6,000-year-old Sumerian civilization, yet the latest archaeological findings at sites such as Jericho and, most recently, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, have been dated to 10,000 BC.Civilization goes back at least another 10,000 years, if we are
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Supernatural

Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

by Graham Hancock ...

Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

Unabridged

14 hours 56 min

Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the greatest riddle in human history," all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers.In Supernatural Graham ... Read more

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Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the greatest riddle in human history," all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers.In Supernatural Graham
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Immortality of the Gods

Legends, Mysteries, and the Alien Connection to Eternal Life

by Nick Redfern ...

Narrated by Richard Powers ...

Unabridged

7 hours 13 min

Each of us are alive for a very limited time. Or are we?What if we could live not just for a century but for millennia? What if there were a way for us to never die? Is such a thing even remotely possible?It may not only be feasible; it may very well have been achieved in the distant past. Ancient aliens may well have uncovered the secrets behind slowing, and ultimately completely stopping, the ... Read more

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Each of us are alive for a very limited time. Or are we?What if we could live not just for a century but for millennia? What if there were a way for us to never die? Is such a thing even remotely possible?It may not only be feasible; it may very well have been achieved in the distant past. Ancient aliens may well have uncovered the secrets behind slowing, and ultimately completely stopping, the
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Odyssey of the Gods

The History of Extraterrestrial Contact in Ancient Greece

by Erich von Daniken ...

Narrated by William Dufris ...

Unabridged

7 hours 17 min

Legendary UFO expert Erich von Däniken stirs up another controversy with an imaginative supposition: What if the myths of ancient Greece were attempts to describe events that really happened? What if ancient peoples were visited, not by imaginary gods and goddesses, but by extraterrestrial beings who arrived on earth thousands of years ago? The author's research into both ancient mythology and ... Read more

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Legendary UFO expert Erich von Däniken stirs up another controversy with an imaginative supposition: What if the myths of ancient Greece were attempts to describe events that really happened? What if ancient peoples were visited, not by imaginary gods and goddesses, but by extraterrestrial beings who arrived on earth thousands of years ago? The author's research into both ancient mythology and
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Who Built the Moon?

by Christopher Knight, Alan Butler ...

Narrated by Shaun Grindell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min

The authors of Civilization One return, bringing new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world.Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. On further investigation, they found a consistent sequence of beautiful integer numbers when looking at ... Read more

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The authors of Civilization One return, bringing new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world.Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. On further investigation, they found a consistent sequence of beautiful integer numbers when looking at
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Black Genesis

The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

by Robert Bauval, Thomas Brophy, PhD ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

10 hours 13 min

Relegated to the realm of archaeological heresy, despite a wealth of hard scientific evidence, the theory that an advanced civilization of black Africans settled in the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt existed has been dismissed and even condemned by conventional Egyptologists, archaeologists, and the Egyptian government. Uncovering compelling new evidence, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and ... Read more

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Relegated to the realm of archaeological heresy, despite a wealth of hard scientific evidence, the theory that an advanced civilization of black Africans settled in the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt existed has been dismissed and even condemned by conventional Egyptologists, archaeologists, and the Egyptian government. Uncovering compelling new evidence, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and
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