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Author: Randy Elstrott Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456842897 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 538
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"It was late August 2005. A newly generated hurricane named Katrina had just passed over the lower Florida peninsula and turned southward into the gulf loop current. Houston-based paleontologist Christopher Desturlow was called to New Orleans to identify an unusual animal caught in a Louisiana shrimper’s net. Through a serendipitous brush with a young deckhand from the shrimper’s boat, Desturlow learned that the events that brought him to southeast Louisiana, just in time for the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, were part of an elaborate hoax. The source of the hoax was a powerful scientifi c organization that in practice, very much resembled a religious cult. Desturlow was the target of their schemes. The offensive from this science cult rendered him nearly hopeless in his struggle to save his own life, but he was stunned and energized to learn that the ultimate purpose of their intrusions was to hi-jack the tenets of the modern theory of evolution, and completely commandeer the life of his own eight year old daughter. Laced with hurricane drama, demonic movement, scientifi c debate, and the most beautiful, historic, and interesting settings in Southeast Louisiana, Watchmaker Society is a novel that offers an honest look at the Intelligent Design/Evolution debate through the metaphysical lens of the 1858 co-founder of evolution theory; Alfred R. Wallace."
Author: Randy Elstrott Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456842897 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 538
Book Description
"It was late August 2005. A newly generated hurricane named Katrina had just passed over the lower Florida peninsula and turned southward into the gulf loop current. Houston-based paleontologist Christopher Desturlow was called to New Orleans to identify an unusual animal caught in a Louisiana shrimper’s net. Through a serendipitous brush with a young deckhand from the shrimper’s boat, Desturlow learned that the events that brought him to southeast Louisiana, just in time for the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, were part of an elaborate hoax. The source of the hoax was a powerful scientifi c organization that in practice, very much resembled a religious cult. Desturlow was the target of their schemes. The offensive from this science cult rendered him nearly hopeless in his struggle to save his own life, but he was stunned and energized to learn that the ultimate purpose of their intrusions was to hi-jack the tenets of the modern theory of evolution, and completely commandeer the life of his own eight year old daughter. Laced with hurricane drama, demonic movement, scientifi c debate, and the most beautiful, historic, and interesting settings in Southeast Louisiana, Watchmaker Society is a novel that offers an honest look at the Intelligent Design/Evolution debate through the metaphysical lens of the 1858 co-founder of evolution theory; Alfred R. Wallace."
Author: Alun C. Davies Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000571904 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 399
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This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
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