Contacts with natives noted; p.22; Moreton Bay natives used to locate runaways; p.24; Nasal septum pierced, two joints of little finger left hand removed; manufacture of nets and baskets; fishing; shelters; duels described; p.31; Bathurst Island; tattoos, painted, scarification, physical appearance; clothing; weapons; p.34; Grave in detail; p.253; Sunstroke cure; p.295; Cannibalism; p.313; Gathering of tribes for Bunnia [bunya] season; p.339; Childrens games with bows and arrows.

Spencer addresses questions about the existence of a Genesis code, original sin, and why Christ had to die in this text based on his research into Genesis.

Michael Crichton meets Dan Brown in this novel of the real secret code hidden in human DNA. Nobel Prize--winning geneticist Joshua Ambergris has made an astounding discovery that will shake the foundations of science: He has discovered a coded text hidden in human DNA. Before Ambergris can change the course of history by announcing his incredible discovery, he is brutally murdered in his office at Triad Genomics, an international biotech company. Ambergris has left behind a labyrinthine series of clues that ultimately reveals the truth: There is a message from a much earlier, more sophisticated human civilization encoded in the human genome! Who planted this code eons ago? And why? And can it be decoded before it's too late? Ambergris's protégé, Christian Madison, and his assistant, Grace Nguyen, must follow the serpentine trail to uncover a global conspiracy of silence, secrecy, and murder that spans the breadth of human history. A shadowy group known only as the Order guards the ancient secret enciphered in the mythologies and architecture of Earth's oldest civilizations and encoded into the very fabric of human DNA. Ambergris's clues lead Madison and Nguyen through the mysteries of the Maya and ancient Egypt, the forgotten knowledge of Sumeria, and the enigmas of modern science. Pursued at every turn by Ambergris's killers, Madison and Nguyen race to uncover the secrets of the Genesis Code before the Order can carry out the final, sinister step of a genocidal plan. Driven by scientific fact and new interpretations of ancient writings, symbolism, and mythology culled from thousands of years of human history, The Genesis Code digs deeply into the questions of the real nature of the human DNA code. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Old English Genesis is the sole illustrated Anglo-Saxon poem. In full appreciation of this unique concurrent execution of visualization and versification in a single manuscript, this multidisciplinary work explores the pictorial (Vol. 1) and the metrical (Vol. 2) organization from both synchronic–structural and diachronic–comparative perspectives. Among the most significant findings of each volume are: The first twenty-two images in the Old English Genesis originated on the whole from the Touronian Bibles; and the underlying classical Old English and Old Saxon meters were interactively reshaped through mutual adaptation and recomposition aimed at their firm integration into a synthesized Old English Genesis. While each part is solidly embedded in the respective scholarly tradition and pursues its own disciplinary concerns and problematics, vigorous formal and cognitive reasoning and theorizing run commonly through both. By way of mutual corroboration and integration, the twin volumes eventually converge on the hypothesis that the earliest portion of the extant Old English Genesis (lines 1–966) derived from the corresponding episodes of an illustrated Touronian Old Saxon Genesis in both pictorial and metrical terms.

The Genesis Machine Box Set contains all three books: Inception, Decryption and Revelation Inception: Aliens have arrived... and this isn’t the first time. When expert Navy linguist and cryptographer Charlie Cutter is recruited into a shadowy wing of the NCIS, she’s tasked with unravelling a mysterious ancient text that has puzzled researchers for centuries. Charlie isn’t eager to revisit her previous failures... but when she discovers the same strange language in top-secret photographs, she finds herself roped into a job that could make or break her young career. After a strange pod crashes to earth during a violent storm, Charlie and her small team uncover an incredible truth: aliens have landed on earth – and not for the first time. Catapulted into a thrilling mystery that will carry them from the political swamps of D.C. to the scorching Las Vegas desert, Charlie must race against time to crack the code and save humanity from a possible alien invasion. Surrounded by a web of secrets and lies, Charlie struggles to track down the origin of the pods – and unmask the hidden motives of their extra-terrestrial visitors. The mystery stretches back centuries... and it leads Charlie to a shocking revelation that will change everything. Decryption: The pods are opening – and their new visitors are all-too-human... Expert linguist Charlie and her team of NCIS agents are hot on the trail of the mysterious alien pods. But after a new arrival opens to reveal a young child, her investigation is thrown into chaos. Faced with terrifying questions about the true origins of their seemingly extra-terrestrial visitors, Charlie is plunged into a race against time to unscramble a mysterious text before more pods arrive. But when a budding relationship with her teammate Special Agent Demarco brings shocking new secrets to light, Charlie finds herself torn between her loyalty to her country and her newfound feelings for the handsome yet distant agent. With a dangerous saboteur lurking behind the scenes, Charlie’s struggle to decipher the pods puts her in the cross-hairs of an unknown enemy. And after a code-red emergency thrusts the team’s true loyalties into the light, Charlie must risk everything to identify the truth and protect humanity... Revelation: The last piece of the puzzle is about to fall into place – and the truth is more terrifying than anyone imagined. Time is running out for Charlie and the NCIS. After another pod survivor lands in the desert outside Las Vegas, a surprise encounter drives a wedge through the tight-knit group and sends the team spiralling into chaos. When Special Agent Demarco goes rogue on a revenge-fueled vendetta, Charlie and the remains of her team are catapulted on a collision course with a final explosive confrontation. Struggling to assemble the last pieces of the puzzle, she discovers an alarming secret partnership... along with a malevolent plan that must be stopped at all costs. And after she unearths a secret lab with a discovery that threatens the entire human race, Charlie realizes that the truth behind the pods is far more horrifying than she ever could have guessed... and that not everyone is getting out of this alive.