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At the very foundation of religious faith and hope is a belief that consciousness will survive death and that we will live on in another dimension of reality. But that foundation easily crumbles when scientific minds are unable to wrap their brains around an afterlife, when they are unable to visualize a non-material world. As the foundation gives way, the philosophy of materialism takes hold and gives rise to moral decadence, egocentricity, h...

In the 40 stories assembled in this collection, originally published in 1901, journalist Paul Vibert explores such ground-breaking concepts as the artificial insemination of elephants with the seed of prehistoric mastodons found preserved in ice, the artificial production of microbe-sized humans, the existence of an underwater world inhabited by Ancient Jews, communication with Mars and other worlds via light signals, the power to look into th...

The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen, and Yosho Akamatsu of the Japanese Secret Police. This classic French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s is presented here in English for the first time in a nine-volume omnibus editio...

In Albert Bleunard's Ever Smaller (1893), the first modern novel on the theme of the "Shrinking Man, " a group of scientists are shrunken down, first to insect-size, to explore an ordinary garden, which becomes as perilous to them as an alien world, then, to microbe-size inside a drop of water and, finally, into a rose bush. The book also includes The Reluctant Spiritualist, an 1889 novella about a mysterious and seemingly blank canvas which w...

These short fictions by renowned Australian author James Cowan, winner of the Australian Gold Medal for Fiction, offer the reader a remarkable flight to places that defy time. They deal with circumstances and events that lie beyond the scope of normal events. Is there a relationship between the fantastic and the real? Whether one is taking a voyage around the bowl of a pipe, or engaging with the magical properties of an elephant, the reader is...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2011, held at IWANN 2011 in Torremolinos-Málaga, Spain in June 2011. The 30 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on mobile proposals for AAL, applications for cognitive impairments, e-health, smart and wireless sensors, applied technologies, frame...

The Book of Kells is one of the world's most famous illuminated manuscripts. Now you can colour it in yourself, with this selection of pictures big and small from this beautiful book.

The four books in "Burgess' Bedtime Story-Books, Volume 1" are a continuation of Thornton W. Burgess's long running - and much beloved - series of children's nature books about the Green Meadow, the Green Forest, and the Smiling Pool. Young readers, and listeners, travel to this timeless world and learn gentle lessons about nature, the environment, and the "lesser folk of fur and feathers." * * * * Children will love hearing, and reading, abou...

Erst nach einer langen Zeit des Schweigens - 59 Jahre später, als sie noch einmal 'dorthin' zurückgekehrt war - schrieb Éva Pusztai-Fahidi dieses Buch. Seit diesem Besuch betrachtet sie es als ihre Pflicht, über das, was sie in Auschwitz erlebt hat, zu berichten. 'Die Seele der Dinge' ist ein eindringliches Zeugnis des Holocaust und zugleich mehr. Éva Fahidis Memoiren sind Familiengeschichte und Portrait einer Epoche, schildern detailfreudig d...

Stoked by a series of major scandals, popular fears of corruption in the Civil War North provide a unique window into Northern culture in the Civil War era. In The Enemy Within, Michael Thomas Smith relates these scandals - including those involving John C. Frémont's administration in Missouri, Benjamin F. Butler's in Louisiana, bounty jumping and recruitment fraud, controversial wartime innovations in the Treasury Department, government contr...

Papers from a symposium held April 21-22, 2006 at University of Virginia as part of biennial Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation distinguished lecture series.

Poetry. These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue. Hall is a surruralist (rural and surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to--Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet,...

Sub-Saharan Africa's economic recovery is well under way, although among country groups there is variation in the speed of the recovery. In most of the region's low-income countries and among the seven oil exporters growth is almost back to precrisis levels. However, in the region's middle-income countries, including South Africa, the recovery has been more gradual. This Regional Economic Outlook describes the impact of recent economic develop...

Das Standardwerk der Branche behandelt die gesamte Thematik der Instandsetzung von feuchte- und salzgeschädigten Bauwerken. Neben Grundlagen und Schadensmechanismen werden Produkte, Verfahren und Systeme zur nachträglichen Horizontal- und Vertikalabdichtung und flankierende Maßnahmen beschrieben. Dabei werden nicht nur Eigenschaften und Vorteile erläutert, sondern auch Anwendungsgrenzen definiert. Dazu beschreibt der Autor umfassend die Sanier...

At 5, 980 feet, Truckee enchants visitors with a quaintness that belies the mountain town's rugged past. The very environment in which Truckee exists--high elevation, cold, deep snows--forced its founding fathers, residents, immigrants, and transient workers to make tough decisions while attempting to keep peace in a wildly remote area. In just over 150 years, Truckee has morphed from a collection of lawless rough-and-tumble settlements to a c...

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Since 9/11, Canada has been on the front lines of a New World Order that few understand. And in today's world, secret intelligence is not just the first line of defence -- it may be the only one. Dwight Hamilton takes you inside the covert and dangerous world of espionage and international terrorism.

Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.

A version in Latin of Anthony Hope's 'The Prisoner of Zenda', translated by Tom Cotton

Das Projekt "Region im Umbruch" der Universitäten Passau, Regensburg und Graz untersucht die Zusammenhänge von Ökonomie, Ökologie und Geschichte im oberen Donauraum zwischen 50 v. Chr. und 800 n. Chr. Im vorliegenden Band wird der Sichtkreis erweitert. Althistoriker, Archäologen und Archäobotaniker analysieren historische Strukturen, Prozesse und Faktoren und wie sie in Europa von der späten Bronzezeit bis ins frühe Mittelalter hinein wirkten:...