Self Improvement/Skills

A TGS survival book reprint. You don't need to be a master chemist to understand the chemicals that make plants grow and the processes that you use on farms and gardens for successful crops. In time of economic failures, books like these will be a necessary addition to any survival home library.

An in depth study of brainwashing used by governments, military, and others against mankind, with stories of how to defeat such attempts from those who succeeded. The author was a respected scholar in this field of study, and supplied Congress with valuable information about brainwashing.

Rural farms were not always on the 'grid' and this book shows several methods employed to produce the electricity needed for their homes and farms. These methods could again be used to furnish energy in the event of an emergency or disaster, or even to get off the electric company's swindle.

With the natural weather catastrophes all around us, and the unending wars of the U.S., we could easily find ourselves in a position of food shortages and rationings. This book from World War 1, nearly a century ago offers recipes and helps to save and ration food. All households should have these resources handy and available should the time come that your family is forced to conserve or ration food.

The book is reprinted as an addition to the TGS Historical Reprints. The Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable or certain record until the present time.

The mechanical properties of wood are its fitness and ability to resist applied or external forces. By external force is meant any force outside of a given piece of material which tends to deform it in any manner. It is largely such properties that determine the use of wood for structural and building purposes and innumerable other uses of which furniture, vehicles, implements, and tool handles are a few common examples.

Sometimes the inroads of science have seemed to threaten the foundations of man's most sacred faith. But in the end the essentials of faith have been marvellously enriched. The widespread inquiry into customs, traditions, races, and religions has tended toward the unification of all our thinking about mankind.