In Search of First Contact

In Search of First Contact
Author: Annette Kolodny
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822352869


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A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.


In Search of First Contact
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Annette Kolodny
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-29 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they
First Contact
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Marc Kaufman
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-13 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Kaufman details the incredible true story of science's search for the beginnings of life on Earth and the probability that it exists elsewhere in the universe.
Contact
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Carl Sagan
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-20 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of spac
The Contact Paradox
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Keith Cooper
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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What will happen if (perhaps when) humanity makes contact with another civilisation on a different planet? In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the
Buried in Shades of Night
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Billy J. Stratton
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-26 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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"Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narr