Search Results: Science: Archeoastronomy/Astronomy from pacaritambo books

Harper , 2016. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Harper hardcover (navy boards) & dust jacket, first US edition, first printing. CONTENT: A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. Francois, the base's chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the longing for a fresh start, which they share, as well as an indelible but unknown bond that stretches back… Read More

Harper , 2016. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2016 Harper hardcover (navy boards) & dust jacket, first US edition, first printing. Small remainder mark bottom edges make this book "as new." CONTENT: A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. Francois, the base's chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the… Read More

Smithsonian/Viking, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Color images by Author and several others. A cheery topic, eh? CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2016 Smithsonian/Viking hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Wonderful color illustrations - many by the Author. TINY PROBLEM - 1 tiny "nic" bottom DJ edge near front fold. That's it, folks - tiny. CONTENT: In the vast realm of outer space, accidents happen all the time. Things bump into each other. Stars blow up. Space rocks smash into planets. Black holes gobble up everything in their path. The sun is burning out. A comet swarm is bearing down. Any of this could change-or even eliminate-life on a planet like Earth. Countdown to cosmic catastrophes! From asteroid hit to alien invasion, astronomer David Aguilar builds the scientific case for seven extreme events that could impact Earth. (Though not as we know it: most of these catastrophes are way down the cosmic line .… Read More

New York: Scribner's, 1982. 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Very Good. B&W maps, charts, drawings and photos. Condition: PLEASE READ - UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1982 Scribner's hardcover and DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Problem is top DJ edge: edge wear with small nic spine top. Interior perfect. B&W photos, charts, & drawings illustrate Content: Around the world, from the moors of northern Europe to the jungles of south Asia to the deserts of the American Southwest, the scattered ruins of ancient civilizations remain to tantalize us with memories of former glories, prehistoric accomplishments, and forgotten sciences. Was astronomy one of these lost sciences? Did priest-observers once stand atop these now crumbling towers to watch the slow turning of the stars? Archaeoastronomy, a modern discipline combining astronomy and archaeology, attemps to describe the astronomical knowledge of ancient peoples through the study of unwritten records they left behind in these stone ruins. This book… Read More

Germany: SMPK, 2000. 1st American Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W and Color photos. CONDITION: UNREAD 2000 SMPK very large paperback, no printing given. Loaded with color and B&W artifact photos and drawings with B&W maps. Excellent look into the religion of the Ancient American Indians. Tiny "ding" spine ridge. Exhibition. ISBN: 34960270022 CONTENT: Superb catalogue which accompanied an exhibition by the same name presented May to October, 2000, in the FORUM of the Landesmuseum, Hanover, Germany. Among the topics discussed are: 1) Mesoamerica, Central America & the Caribbean before the arrival of the Spanish; 2) Costa Rica in pre-Spanish times; 3) the Taino of the Greater Antilles; 4) Death shrouds from pre-Spanish Peru; 5) the Huichol of northwest Mexico; 6) the peyote notched stick of the Raramuri; 7) masks of the Tarahumara (the work of Simon Morales); 8) Indians in the Amazonian lowlands; 9) a short history of Latin American natural medicine; 9) Colima on the… Read More