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	New age / esalen / arnold j. toynbee
		Arnold Joseph Toynbee (April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of global history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline.
		Toynbee's ideas have not perhaps proved of great influence on other historians; his overall theory certainly was taken up by some scholars, for example, Ernst Robert Curtius, as a sort of paradigm in the post-war period.
		Toynbee supervised the compilation of the first of the 1939-1946 volumes, and wrote a preface for both that and the 1947-1948 volume.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/arnold_j._toynbee.htm (2901 words)

	FarShores News: Extraterrestrial Link To Mysterious Toynbee Tiles
		Toynbee, who lived from 1889 to 1975, was best known for his theory that humanity's perception of its history shapes its future.
		This theory was turned on its head and used as the premise for a 1983 Ray Bradbury short story titled "The Toynbee Convector" in which a character by the name of Stiles travels 80 years into the future and returns with stories of mankind's marvelous achievements.
		Though Toynbee and Kubrick were both brilliant British visionaries whose lifetimes overlapped, my superficial research on the Internet reveals no obvious overlap in their bodies of work.
	farshores.org /n03tiles.htm (2664 words)

	The Toynbee convector
		Toynbee moves confidently in the histories of the old civilizations of Asia, the Chinese, and the Indian, of Egypt, of America as well.
		Toynbee believed that the viciousness of attacks on him in England in the 50s (not the criticisms themselves) was a symptom of the malaise of a declining power.
		Toynbee is aware that he seems “ungrateful” for the achievements of these “Industrial” historians, but he is making his own slant clear as he embarks on his work, and says that the justification of criticism of one set of scholars by another is their acknowledgment that they will be criticised in their turn.
	davidderrick.wordpress.com (10795 words)

	Bear Pit Political Forum
		Arnold J Toynbee, (b1889 - d1975), English historian, the nephew of social reformer Arnold Toynbee.
		Toynbee became Proffessor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History at King's College, London (1919 - 1924) and research professor at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (1925 - 1955).
		Toynbee was proably most influential in relation to Asian thinkers.
	www.bearpit.net /index.php?showtopic=1659 (453 words)

	Toynbee - new and used books
		Toynbee On Toynbee: A Conversation Between Arnold J. Toynbee and G.R. Urban.
		TOYNBEE, - Toynbee On Toynbee: A Conversation Between Arnold J. Toynbee and G.R. Urban.
		Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee took up the challenge, living in one of the worst council estates in Britain and taking whatever was on offer at the job centre.
	www.isbn.pl /A-toynbee (503 words)

	Toynbee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Toynbee Hall, a settlement in London inspired by and named in honour of Arnold Toynbee
		The Toynbee Convector, a time-travel story by Ray Bradbury, vaguely based on the philosophy of Arnold Joseph Toynbee
		Toynbee tiles, mysterious tiles embedded in the streets of a number of US and South American cities
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toynbee (160 words)

	A Toynbee bibliography « The Toynbee convector
		Toynbee on Toynbee, A Conversation between Arnold J Toynbee and GR Urban, New York, OUP, 1974
		Toynbee supervised the compilation of the first of the 1939-46 volumes, and wrote a preface for both that and the 1947-48 volume:
		Dialogues published in the English-speaking world, books edited by Toynbee or co-authored with one other writer or collaborator, and the Survey of International Affairs are mentioned even when his contributions may have amounted to fewer than 70 pages.
	davidderrick.wordpress.com /a-toynbee-bibliography (2035 words)

	Scifilm -- TV Files, Ray Bradbury Theater: "The Toynbee Convector"
		All of this was made possible after a journey to the future by time traveler Craig Bennett Stiles (James Whitmore) in his time machine ‘The Toynbee Convector' in the year 2000.
		Upon his return, Stiles told a delighted and captivated world about a brighter tomorrow, a place where we had solved our problems here, had overcome adversity, and were finally set to move out amongst the stars.
		This "Ray Bradbury Theater" adaptation of "The Toynbee Convector" is certainly true to the spirit of one my favorite Bradbury short stories, but one thing about it did bother me...what Hurst's character did with the tapes and records at the end did not correspond well with the story's message.
	www.scifilm.org /tv/raybradbury/raybradbury5-8.html (246 words)

	Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
		"Toynbee" must be 20th century British historian Arnold Toynbee, who lived from 1889 to 1975.
		In the 1983 short story "The Toynbee Convector" by Ray Bradbury, a character named Stiles travels 80 years into the future and returns with stories of mankind's marvelous achievements.
		The identity of the maker of the Toynbee tiles may have been uncovered in 1983, when Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Clark DeLeon wrote a story about a Philadelphia social worker named James Morasco, who was trying to get newspapers to publish his theories about colonizing Jupiter with dead people from Earth.
	www.unknowncountry.com /news/?id=3165 (804 words)

	Book Reviews: The Toynbee Convector
		I won't say much about the illos, because I've never really liked pictures in grownup books (the last books that I remember liking the pictures in were Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows).
		I will complain briefly that the illustrator may not have read the text that she's illustrating (less forgivable in a shory story than a novel): the cover, for instance, shows a person wearing a strange machine on his head, whereas the Convector of the story is very clearly something that you sit inside of.
		I'll have to figure out which box the rest of the Bradbury is in, and move it closer to the top of "to be unpacked soon"...
	www.davidchess.com /words/revs/toynbee.html (411 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Toynbee Convector: Books: Ray Bradbury,Anita Kunz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But The Toynbee Convector is full of all the tales and ideas we know Mr.
		This book the 'Toynbee Convector' is a very clever collection of Bradbury's works.
		The Book "The Toynbee Convector" by Ray Bradbury is a very good title.
	www.amazon.ca /Toynbee-Convector-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1878685155 (1259 words)

	Untitled Document
		WHAT YOU SEE A picture of a rectangular medallion, with the words, "What Is It?" above it, is followed by attempts to explain the messages of the plaques, with their references to Toynbee, Kubrick, 2001 and Jupiter.
		As the site explains, the English historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, who died in 1975, sought to explain the history of civilization in terms of great cultural groups rather than nationalities.
		Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey" is a stark philosophical depiction of evolution and human and alien intelligence.
	www.tiagoteixeira.com.br /toynbee/newyorktimes.htm (420 words)

	Make Your Own Toynbee Convector » LivingTheMiracle.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the wonderful short story by Ray Bradbury called The Toynbee Convector, the protagonist (Toynbee) claims to have built a time machine (curiously called a convector), and says that he has used it to travel 100 years into the future and then return to his present time.
		A century later, after this shining civilization has been achieved, Toynbee grants his first interview since his initial revelation.
		It is then that Toynbee admits that he made it up, all of it — the time machine, the evidence, the vision of the future.
	www.livingthemiracle.com /blog/your-own-toynbee-convector (979 words)

	Comments on 15831 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One suggested source was the Bradbury story the Toynbee Convector.
		Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) was ofcourse a British Historian best known for putting forth the notion that man's perception of his history shapes his future.
		Indeed - the word "Toynbee" is considered to be a time travel plot device now in certain sci-fi literary circles.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/15831 (1556 words)

	Toynbee Tiler Unmasked? \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		June 1, 2006 3:53 PM A Philadelphia house painter may have the answers to the mysterious Toynbee tiles found embedded in asphalt around the world.
		I always think about Ray Bradbury's Toynbee Convector when I see the tiles.
		Earlier MeFi thread on Toynbee tiles from 2002.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/52013 (908 words)

	Damn Interesting » The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles
		Some people also suppose that he is European, given that Kubrick and Toynbee are both English, and because one of the paranoid-ranting plaques indicates that he is/was hiding in Dover, England.
		Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called "The Toynbee Convector", which I believe was first published around the same time these tiles first appeared, but I don't recall it having anything to do with Jupiter or resurrecting dead people, so probably no connection there.
		There was a Toynbee tile in the middle of Fifth Street at Walnut in Downtown Cincinnati for a long time.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=29 (2985 words)

	The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
		Bradbury continues to rattle the same old skeletons in the same old-fashioned closet.
		Many of the 23 stories in ''The Toynbee Convector'' are amiable ghost stories that vanish from the mind the moment you finish them.
		Simplicity and warmth shine through even the weaker stories as the author continues to focus his sights on the elusive human heart.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /b/ray-bradbury/toynbee-convector.htm (383 words)

	Re: Tricking scientists - Cool SciFi Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		story (I think "The Toynbee Convector") in which a man claims to have
		This is all flashback, as the story is set on the day that Toynbee
		My recollection is that Toynbee makes his confession to a single
	www.coolscifi.com /forums/showthread.php?t=41416 (478 words)

	Laurel and Hardy - Ray Bradbury Discussion Board
		Moderator posted 05-07-2002 11:23 PM I'm sure it was in one of the recent collections, probably "Quicker Than the Eye," but possibly even "The Toynbee Convector." I just didn't answer your post because I don't have enough of an opinion on it to comment on this particular story.
		Junior Member posted 05-08-2002 01:36 AM Yes, Dandy, it was collected in The Toynbee Convector.
		The rest may be autobiographical also, I would not be surprised, I reread the story in the Toynbee Convector last night.
	www.raybradbury.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000235.html (2124 words)

	Review of Ray Bradbury's "The Toynbee Convector" (Turner edition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Review of Ray Bradbury's "The Toynbee Convector" (Turner edition)
		Subject: Review of Ray Bradbury's "The Toynbee Convector" (Turner edition) Note : If you're intuitive enough to find the spoiler in here, you wouldn't have been surprised by the story anyway.
		Executive summary : A quirky little 1992 mass-market (I guess) reprint of a good 1983 Bradbury short story.
	members.aol.com /dmchess/www/toynbee.html (393 words)

	THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR / Written by Ray Bradbury / Shinchocha / \705
		Though the title of the English version is "Toynbee Convector", it is "One Night in Your Life" for the Japanese version as it will be more attractive for the Japanese readers.
		This image came to me from that story.
	mejirushi.com /b6/convectore.html (51 words)

	eBooks.com - Ray Bradbury Chronicles 2 eBook
		Ray Bradbury, the galaxy's master storyteller, presents a collection of his fantasy, science fiction, and horror tales, each adapted by one of today's top graphic story illustrators.
		This second volume includes Marionettes, Inc. adapted by Ralph Reese, The Toynbee Convector adapted by Ray Zone and illustrated by Sam Parsons, The Dragon adapted by Vicente Segrelles, and I, Rocket, illustrated by Al Williamson.
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	www.ebooks.com /ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=130384 (228 words)

	Weird News - Odd Toynbee plaques just litter in Chicago - ArcaMax Publishing
		They're called Toynbee plaques, and they contain the same cryptic messages pressed into intersections in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Buenos Aires and Santiago, Chile.
		They all contain the same message: "Toynbee idea, in Kubrick's 2001, resurrect the dead on planet Jupiter," and the Internet is a hotbed of people with theories about their origin and message, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
		The site lists eight Chicago intersections to spot the plaques but the newspaper found only two, and then found out why.
	www.arcamax.com /weirdnews/s-86512-395392 (280 words)

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		The Industrial Revolution Toynbee Longmans and Co 1912
		PLAYBOY Magazine Apr 1967 #4 Gwen Wong, Arnold Toynbee
		A STUDY OF HISTORY - Arnold J. Toynbee - HC/DJ-1947-1ST
	www.risenrock.com /toynbee.html (43 words)

	Bibliography: The Toynbee Convector
		The Toynbee Convector (1988, Knopf, 0394547039, $17.95, 278pp, hc) Cover: Wendell Minor
		The Toynbee Convector (1989, Bantam Spectra, $3.95, 225pp, pb, coll)
		Type Mismatch (Pub=NOVEL, should be COLLECTION): The Toynbee Convector
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/title.cgi?32652 (117 words)

	Publication Listing
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
		The Toynbee Convector • (1987) • collection by Ray Bradbury
		The Toynbee Convector • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/pl.cgi?88ToynbeeConvector (184 words)

	Awards
		Ray Bradbury received the Bram Stoker award in three categories in 1989.
		Ray Bradbury's collection The Toynbee Convector won for "Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection."
		Ray Bradbury's short story "The Thing at the Top of the Stairs" won for "Superior Achievement in a Short Story."
	raybradburyonline.com /awards.htm (507 words)

	Favourite Story - Ray Bradbury Discussion Board
		posted 10-02-2001 12:39 PM My favourite story has got to be "The Toynbee Convector." The tale is nothing less than a metaphor for Bradbury's life and his motivation as a writer.
		My favourite story has got to be "The Toynbee Convector." The tale is nothing less than a metaphor for Bradbury's life and his motivation as a writer.
		Bradbury hopes to convince us to make our own future.
	www.raybradbury.com /ubb/Forum3/HTML/000002.html (2270 words)

	Stories, Listed by Author
		* The Toynbee Convector, (ss) Playboy Jan 1984
		* West of October, (ss) The Toynbee Convector, Knopf 1988
		* “The Toynbee Convector, Ray Bradbury” by Faren Miller, (br) Locus v21:7 No.330 Jul 1988
	www.locusmag.com /index/s90.html (1979 words)

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