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where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections

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to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Greek monarchies some five centuries later

Brenda Maddox: Reading the Rocks [2018] paperback ZCCLA Indeed not unlike her renownedA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their numbers, expanding their learning and increasing their findings were clergymen, academics and women. This lively and