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...Juan Jose Junquera y Mato (Rizzoli; $125). Pre-Christian Rome, the Muslim conquest, the age of Christian Kings, the Napoleonic era, the modern epoch -- Spanish style is long and wide enough to embrace all periods. This landmark book covers every significant design. Its descriptions are brief, but Roberto Schezen's photographs speak volumes...
...plankton remains found in the Transantarctic Mountains at altitudes where no sea should have been. By measuring the age of nearby volcanic ash, a team led by Peter Barrett at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, concluded that the whole area was probably flooded during the mid-Pliocene epoch -- when temperatures were only a few degrees warmer than today...
While the Neolithic period was just flowering in Europe, it had long since come and gone in the Middle and Near East, and a transitional epoch, known as the Chalcolithic (copper and stone) period was approaching its zenith. The first Chalcolithic culture appeared suddenly -- and mysteriously -- in the Near East in about 4000 B.C. and quickly spread toward the Indus River basin and the Mediterranean...
...time enforce a chastening standard of weight and scale. The millennium has a gravitational pull that draws in the largest meanings, if only because its frame of reference is so enormous. The millennial drama represents nothing less than the ritual death and rebirth of history, one thousand-year epoch yielding to another. Such imponderable masses of time overwhelm and humble the individual life-span, reducing human tragedies and accomplishments to windblown powder...
Theatrics aside, Harvard is still undefeated in the joyous epoch of Locker-soccer, named after the team's new coach Steve Locker...