Added by: deception | Karma: 319.20 | Fiction literature | 24 February 2011
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Herbert Wells - The War Of The Worlds
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by a heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilisation is under threat.
In this concise and well-written work, Wells provides an accessible introduction to genetic anthropology, the study of human history using genetic evidence.
Wells does a fantastic job distilling both genetics and genetic anthropology into straightforward topics, presenting sophisticated material accessibly without oversimplification. He gives the reader the basic concepts (Y chromosomes, mtDNA, haplogroups, genetic markers) and then proceeds to step through genographic research from its 19th-century origins to the present day. In so doing, he takes the reader back to the 170,000-year-old female genetic ancestor of every person alive today: the so-called African Eve.
This book called H.G Wells - Complete Works has 4913 pages and it is compilation of these books: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Wheels of Chance, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, The First Men in the Moon, Twelve Stories & A Dream, Tono-Bungay, The War in the Air, Ann Veronica - A Modern Love Story, Door in the Wall and Other Stories, The New Machiavelli, The World Set Free, The Research Magnificent, God The Invisible King, The Soul of a Bishop, War and The Future, The Secret Places of the Heart
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 19 August 2010
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The World Set Free
The World Set Free was first published in 1914. The novel foretells atomic weapons.The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered to foretell nuclear weapons. A constant theme of Wells's work, such as his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the effect of energy and technological advance as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal."