Arcade Publishing.Arcade Publishing Arcade Publishing is an independent trade publishing company that started in 1988 in New York, USA. They are publishers of American and world literature and non-fiction. Their distinguished list of authors include Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Ismail Kadare, Leslie Marmon Silko, 141 Fifth Ave., 8th Fl, NY, NY 10010 1-800-759-0190 www.arcadepub.com Two excellent new titles blend science with other disciplines to provide multi-faceted, lively discussions for general-interest, non-scientist audiences. Michael Judge's The Dance Of Time: The Origins Of The Calendar: A Miscellany Of History And Myth, Religion And Astronomy astronomy, branch of science that studies the motions and natures of celestial bodies, such as planets, stars, and galaxies; more generally, the study of matter and energy in the universe at large. , Festivals And Feast Days (1559707461, $23.00) provides a history of the origins of the calendar, incorporating mythology, religion and science into a discussion of social and cultural calendar rituals and meaning around the world. Readers seeking to understand differences between ancient and modern calendars, and the roots of today's modern calendar, will find The Dance Of Time a lively discussion, seasonally arranged for maximum focus. Len Fisher's Weighing The Soul: Scientific Discovery From The Brilliant To The Bizarre (1559707321, $25.00) covers some oddities The Oddities were a professional wrestling stable in the WWF. History The Jackyl formed the group in 1998 and called them "The Parade of Human Oddities." The group consisted of "freakish" wrestlers, including the masked Golga (formerly Earthquake, whose mask had of scientific investigation and discoveries, from an attempt to actually weigh a dying man's soul as it fled his body to experiments in electricity and DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. . From Fisher's first-person observational, chatty chat·ty adj. chat·ti·er, chat·ti·est 1. Inclined to chat; friendly and talkative. 2. Full of or in the style of light informal talk: a chatty letter. style blending history with cultural insights to own his Nobel Prize-winning experiments, authority backed with an energetic writing style brings science into the average person's life. |
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