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Stuart: The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth about 2012 (Random, '11)
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- Condition
- Very Good
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- ISBN
- 9780385527262
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385527268
ISBN-13
9780385527262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102838981
Product Key Features
Book Title
Order of Days : the Maya World and the Truth about 2012
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Future Studies, Cosmology, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Time, Eschatology, Astronomy, Prophecy
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Social Science, Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-028515
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"More than a rebuttal of the apocalypse-pushers, The Order of Days is a broader (and more interesting) consideration of the role that time played in Maya culture…. An authoritative study of an fascinating and timely topic. And not to worry if your reading takes you beyond next Dec. 21." - The Wall Street Journal, "More than a rebuttal of the apocalypse-pushers, The Order of Days is a broader (and more interesting) consideration of the role that time played in Maya culture.... An authoritative study of an fascinating and timely topic. And not to worry if your reading takes you beyond next Dec. 21." - The Wall Street Journal, "More than a rebuttal of the apocalypse-pushers, The Order of Days is a broader (and more interesting) consideration of the role that time played in Maya culture&. An authoritative study of an fascinating and timely topic. And not to worry if your reading takes you beyond next Dec. 21." - The Wall Street Journal
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
529/.32978427
Synopsis
The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe. Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the mystical workings of our planet and the cosmos, but they were also able to predict that the world will end in the year 2012. David Stuart, the foremost scholar of the Maya and recipient of numerous awards for his work, takes a hard look at the frenzy over 2012 and offers a fascination (and accurate) trip through Mayan culture and belief. Stuart shows how the idea that the "end of the Mayan calendar," which supposedly heralds the end of our own existence, says far more about our culture than about the ancient Maya. The Order of Days explores how the real intellectual achievement of ancient Maya timekeeping and worldview is far more impressive and remarkable than any of the popular, and often outrageous, claims about this advanced civilization. As someone who has studied the Maya for nearly all of his life and who specializes in reading their ancient texts, Stuart sees the 2012 hubbub as the most recent in a long chain of related ideas about Mesoamericans, the Maya in particular, that depicts them as somehow oddball, not "of this world," or as having some strong mystical link to other realms. Because the year 2012 has no prominent role in anything the ancient Maya ever actually wrote, Stuart takes a wider look at the Maya concepts of time and their underlying philosophy as we can best understand them. The ancient Maya, Stuart contends, were worthy of study and admiration not because they were strange but because they were altogether human, and they developed a compelling vision of time unlike any other civilization before or since., The world's foremost expert on Mayan culture takes a hard look at the frenzy over 2012 and offers a fascinating (and accurate) trip through Mayan culture and belief.
LC Classification Number
F1435.3.C14S78 2011
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