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English
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This milestone study -- the first and still the most popular work on Atlantis -- has influenced countless scholars the world over since its publication in 1882. This edition of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World reproduces the illustrated classic that established the modern science of Atlantology -- research based on the belief that there once existed opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea the remnant of an Atlantic continent which was home to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years, the legend of a great flood has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Few believed that such a catastrophic deluge had actually occurred. But now geophysicists have discovered an event that changed history, a sensational flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea. Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, they discovered clear evidence that...
3) Noah
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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A man is appointed by God to carry out a crucial mission of rescue before a calamitous flood destroys the world.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
From the contemporary angst of Ghost Images (1979), Minot now turns to a neat blend of allegory and Biblical revisionism. Ham, Noah's third and youngest son, is the narrator and there are elements, he wants us to know, that the Official Version of the story has left out. The scorn, for instance, with which Noah's idea for the ark was met from within the family.
Author
Publisher
CDP
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With over ten years of research and study, a completely new interpretation of Plato's writings on Atlantis has finally been published. Using over a dozen different scholarly translations and interpretations of Plato's Timaeus and Critias - the texts that described the lost civilization of Atlantis, a completely new singular interpretation of Plato's Atlantis story has been made. Included with this new interpretation, are the latest discoveries that...
12) Before the flood: the biblical flood as a real event and how it changed the course of civilization
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And, the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The great Biblical flood so described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened...
14) Two by two
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A retelling in verse of the Old Testament story about the survival of Noah, his family, and animals during forty days and nights of rain.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At a time when men and dogs are not friendly, Scraggly Hair helps Noah build an ark and round up the pairs of animals it will carry, but conditions on the boat turn his warm, dry nose to a cold, wet one.
18) Storm
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Having lost her family in a massive flood, sixteen-year-old Sebah finds her way onto a gigantic ark, where she must conceal herself from Noah and his family until it is safe for her and another stowaway to slip away.
Author
Publisher
Barefoot
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The ancient Indian story of Manu, who is rewarded when he saves the life of a little fish. The fish tells him what he must do to save himself and the world from destruction in the coming flood.
20) Evan almighty
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Newly elected to Congress, Evan Baxter has left Buffalo, New York in pursuit of a greater calling. But that calling isn't serving in the illustrious ranks of America's politics, but being summoned by the Almighty himself, who has handed Evan the task of building a new ark. With time passing by and his family belittled by Evan's newfound realization, Evan will have to do the work that God has given him in what promises to be an unusual adventure for...