Earth Sciences

A valuable research effort from 1874. Had the people of earth heeded it's revelations would our planet be ailing from human destruction today? George P. Marsh offers an object, fair, and balanced look at how mankind is destroying the planet and how man has benefitted the planet. Nearly 500 pages and heavily documented with over 640 footnotes. This is one of the early books published on 'greening' the earth and making our planet sustainable. An environmentalist's resource!

Although deeply influenced by Plato, Aristotle is far from uncritical. He abandons his mentors' concept that absolute truth is 'out there' in the shape of 'The Forms of Reality' in favour of a much more down-to-earth approach to understanding based on observation more than on reasoning. This empirical rather than idealist approach runs through all his huge output of works on logic, politics, biology, physics, medicine, and, here in one of his most famous works

Discredited in his time, Nikola Tesla was made by business competitors and the government to be nothing more than a kook. However, these same conspirators later duplicated and stole many of Tesla's most fabulous inventions which could soon change the course of history.

There is evidence that Planet X is

The History of the Efforts to Attain a Self-Motive Mechanism : Perpetual energy: Inventors, scientist, tinkerers have for generations attempted to conquer the laws of physics.. the law of diminishing returns.. seeking the utopian energy device so needed by mankind and his civilizations. Someday, perhaps one just might?

We use Norse mythology everyday of the week, either without knowing it or not thinking about it. Tuesday, Wodensday, Thorsday, and Freysday.... Why do these so-called mythologies continue to amaze and confound us? Are they fiction stories built around true and factual events? Nonsense you say--- but you also said that about the mythological Legend of Troy.. and now proven as a factual place in time and history.

The study of music notation and terminology by classes in conservatories and in music departments of colleges and normal schools is a comparative innovation, one reason for the non-existence of such courses in the past being the lack of a suitable text-book, in which might be found in related groups clear and accurate definitions of the really essential terms.