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Chances are even if you have a Ph.D in Mathematics and or Physics you take you car to a mechanic whose highest level of education is high school. In short, expertise in one field does not equate to expertise in another, if it did historians would be writing papers on String Theory. It should also not surprise that in a time when people get their idea of history from the likes of Dan Brown a book such as this would find a market, like Barnum said, "A sucker is born every minute!" Now, the author would have one believe those nasty Jesuits cooked up a bogus history of the world and have snookered everyone (but him, it seems the Jesuits are clever, real clever, just not clever enough) for hundreds of years. Boy, people are really stupid, except for our author. It's a good thing he has come along to lift the veil of ignorance from our eyes! This is what you must believe to take this authors thesis as valid. Myself, just as I'll take my car to a mechanic who knows his trade and pass on the mathematician, I'll get my history from someone who has dedicated his life to it's study. Also, IMHO the positive reviews are mostly pathetic attempts by friends (perhaps the author himself) to praise the book. Syntax use in many of them indicate English is not the first tongue, it almost sounds like a Russian writing (very well by the way, but certainly no Conrad like command) English. Too bad I can't give negative stars.

The way Fomenko rips apart consensual history in a very convincing manner has undoubtebly unnerved a few people who see it as their job to defend this history from all challenges to its integrity. Yet their defence of consensual history is unable to deter Fomenko's assaults on it throughout the book, and by the end of it Fomenko has well and truly broken through the walls. Once you have finished reading this book you will no longer look at history the same way again. However i wouldn't say that this book is for the curious reader, instead it is most likely to appeal to the serious history student who is not contented to swallow everything given to him but has an open and investigative mind.

HA HA! IS FUNNY BECAUSE IS NOT TRUE! IS ALSO FUNNY BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY IS TRUE!

It's some writer working under a pseudonym, getting writer-friends to write these horrible, long-winded reviews.

Some people are able to believe in everything what seems to be logic and supported by some equations and statistics. It is really funny that even the wildest theory will always find its followers. Russian science has problem with pseudoscientists. For instance: Lysenko, Michurin in the agrobiology and now Famenko in history. Maybe in the next volumes of his revised version of history he will try to convince us that: - Jews are the descendants of merchants who did not pay taxes regullary and were expelled from the Novogrod. - Ethiopians are the descendants of the miners (that's why they are black) who escaped from the coal mines, which were placed in Ural. But one of them remained in Russia and later he became the gradfather of Alexander Pushkin. - Asians are the descendants of peepers or spies (that's why they have eyes with an epicanthic fold) who were unmasked and left Russia. Because everything can be proved with statistics.

Reviews

This guide is a must for beginning hobbyist to get an overview of why coins are exciting to collect. It belongs in every public library and is a must gift for the new, young, or more advanced collector.

I got his for my grandson. It is really a nice way to begin to learn about coins. My brother, which is a long time coin collector said he would like to have one. So this coin book is good for the beginners and the seasoned collectors.