SOCIETY NEWS: Membership Subscriptions to 2013 * Report of the Autumn Meeting of
15th September on ‘Velikovsky’s Legacy’ * Report on Study Group
Meeting of 29th March …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1
LETTERS: Elspeth Cunningham * Daphne Chappell * John Plaxton * David Barker
* Peter Fairlie-Clarke * Carl Olof Jonsson (2) * Val Pearce * Phillip
Clapham * Slade Barker (2) * Emmet Sweeney (2) ……………………………………… 4
A RESPONSE TO EV COCHRANE – from Emmet Sweeney ……………………………………………………………………. 9
MEDIEVAL EUROPE – DATING AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.
Bede’s Chronicae: Part 2 – A confused chronology?, by Steve Mitchell ……… 11
MONITOR: Inside Science * Astronomy * Electromagnetism * Geology
* Climate Change * Catastrophism * Evolution * Dating *
Anthropology * Archaeology * Mythology ……………………………………………….. 20
BOOKSHELF: The Megalithic Empire * Before the Delusion * The Pseudoscience
Wars * The Spark of Life * Waking the Giant: How a changing
climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes * Prize Fight:
The race and the rivalry to be the first in science * Lone Survivors:
How we came to be the only humans on Earth * The Gods of Battle
* Hatshepsut, Queen of Sheba ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 26
BOOK REVIEWS: The Sun Kings – reviewed by Laurence Dixon * The Troy Deception
(Vol. I) – reviewed by Barry Curnock; Quantavolution: Challenges to
Conventional Science – reviewed by Jill Abery ………………………………………………………. 27
FROM THE ‘Caught in the Crossfire’ * ‘Serious Issues with Plate Tectonics’
INTERNET: * ‘Makhtesh Ramon’ * ‘Mercury’s Catastrophic Birth’ * ‘Electricity
Hiding Behind “Dark Matter”?’ * ‘The Very Stones Cry Out’ ………………….. 32
© The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies – November 2012
EDITORIAL ADDRESS: ‘Innisfree’, Highsted Valley, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 0AD, UK.
EDITORIAL TEAM: Jill Abery (Editorial Co-ordinator), Daphne Chappell, Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, Val Pearce, David Roth
and Emmet Sweeney.
PRODUCTION: Val Pearce.
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