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Excerpt from Through the WheatUsk, like soft blue smoke, fell with the dying spring air and settled upon the northern French village. In the uncertain light one and two story buildings set along the crooked street showed crisply, bearing a resem blance to false teeth in an ash-old face. To young Hicks, disconsolate as he leaned against the outer wall of the French canteen, upon whose smooth white surface his body made an unseemly blot, life wa...

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The Mental Highway is a collection of lectures serving as an introduction to academic and applied psychology. Thomas Parker Boyd felt that an underlying appreciation for Universal Laws and their relationship to the subconscious mind was an essential part of the subject. Contrast Boyd's approach with that of mainstream psychology today and we are left wondering if our understanding of the mind has advanced much over 100 years. In The Mental Hi...

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Excerpt from Borderland Experiences, or Do the Dead Return?: A Study of Spirit States and ActivitiesWe find in the creed the words, I believe in the com munion of Saints, but just what do we mean by it? Is it some beatific exercise of those who have passed on, or the brotherly interchange of people in the ¿esh? Is it some hazy and indefinite meditation by which we can hold in Imaginatlon a one-sided conversation with the Saints? Or do we mean ...

Excerpt from The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement: A Hand-Book on Psycho-Therapeutics It is also true that everybody uses these mental and spiritual forces, consciously or otherwise. The man who knows how may use them uniformly for good, while he who does not will be a blind Samson, doing wonders often, but sooner or later pulling the house of achievement down upon his head. If it be urged that only experts should know of and use these f...

Excerpt from A Crisis in Egypt? Or What Happened on the Day of the Exodus The facilities for reaching the sunny land have been so greatly im proved that thousands of persons now make an annual visit, in order to escape the rigour of Northern climes, and artists, authors, and play wrights vie with each other in presenting to us the scenes which they have witnessed, or the mental pictures which they have conjured up whilst ¿oating in the a'aiza...

Excerpt from The Prospectus of Life in the University of Hard Knocks: Containing Announcements, Pronouncements, Colleges, Courses of Study, Teachers, Honors, Illustrious Gaduates The subject matter herein has been preparing for a lifetime. The title of the book was announced some seven years ago after many years of lecturing on the subject. The manuscript was finished some five years ago. When just ready to proceed with its publication, the ...

Excerpt from The Voice Eternal: A Spiritual Philosophy of the Fine Art of Being Well If any apology were needed for a new book it could be found in the fact that every marked advance in human welfare has had its literature, so that those who could not enjoy the instruo tion and enthusiasm of its leaders might at least be intelligently informed as to the underlying principles and methods of the advance movement. The multiplying of books in the...

Excerpt from Poems Thou art lovely, O Banba! Alone by the Western rocks! And the burning gold of thy locks, Down-streaming, a magical tide, Over shoulder and radiant side, In waves in whose shadows were lost The lives of thy sacrificed host, And in gleamings of curling crests, Still lift, as of old, our breasts With thy rapture, O Banba! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...

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This current, comprehensive book provides an updated treatment of molecular gas dynamics topics and the DSMC method for aerospace engineers.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Author Thomas Boyd is best known for the novel "Through the Wheat, " long considered the greatest American novel of World War I. Boyd was a Marine in WWI, saw much fighting action, and was deeply influenced by his battlefield experience. Later, he wrote for newspapers, and while working in a bookstore and writing the literary page of the St. Paul, Minnesota daily newspaper, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who then recommended him to the...

Thomas Boyd is best known for "Through the Wheat, " long considered the greatest American novel of WW I. Boyd was a Marine, saw much fighting action, and was deeply influenced by his battlefield experience. Later he wrote for newspapers, and while working in a bookstore and writing the literary page of the St. Paul daily newspaper, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who recommended him to editor Maxwell Perkins. Boyd published several book...