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Publication place. United States. ISBN. 0-385-51705-X. The Next 100 Years is a 2009 speculative nonfiction book by George Friedman. In the book, Friedman attempts to predict the major geopolitical events and trends of the 21st century. Friedman also speculates in the book on changes in technology and culture that may take place during this period.
A 40-year-old image consultant (Bruce Willis) finds himself being visited by his 10-year-old self. 2000 For All Time: Steven Schachter: A middle-aged man stumbles across an antique watch that transports him to 1896. He falls in love, and decides to stay. He breaks the watch, then sees the situation in a new light as complications occur. 2000 Il ...
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
Set in Prehistory (c. 30,000 BC – 3000 BC) Before Adam by Jack London. Earth's Children series by Jean Auel. Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell. Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland. Mammoth Trilogy by Stephen Baxter. The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver.
These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days. [ a] The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. [ b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of ...
Retrieved December 18, 2011. Without rival, the twentieth century's king of the genre is Louis Cha. Estimates of his book sales reach up to 300 million copies. One editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review estimated that, if one also counted the pirated copies, over 1 billion of Cha's books have been sold.
The 2nd century BCE Book of Jubilees begins with the Creation and measures time in years, "weeks" of years (groups of seven years), and jubilees (sevens of sevens), so that the interval from Creation to the settlement of Canaan, for example, is exactly fifty jubilees (2450 years). [38]