Download or read book The Science of Ghosts written by Joe Nickell and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are ghosts real? Are there truly haunted places, only haunted people, or both? And how can we know? Taking neither a credulous nor a dismissive approach, this first-of-its-kind book solves those perplexing mysteries and more--even answering the question of why we care so very much. Putting aside purely romantic tales, this book examines the actual evidence for ghosts--from eyewitness accounts to mediumistic productions (such as diaphanous forms materializing in dim light), spirit photographs, ghost-detection phenomena, and even CSI-type trace evidence. Offering numerous exciting case studies, this book engages in serious investigation rather than breathless mystifying. Pseudoscience, folk legends, and outright hoaxes are challenged and exposed, while the historical, cultural, and scientific aspects of ghost experiences and haunting reports are carefully explored. The author--the world's only professional paranormal investigator--brings his skills as a stage magician, private detective, folklorist, and forensic science writer to bear on a topic that demands serious study.

Download or read book Tolkien written by David Day and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encyclopedic illustrated guide to the world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands, this book brings together every important aspect of Tolkien's vast cosmology. More than five hundred alphabetical entries cover five major subject areas: history, geography, sociology, natural history and biography. The maps, genealogies and time-charts, together with the illustrations of characters, places adn events, reveal to the reader the full dramatic sweep and splendor of Tolkien's world.

Download or read book Treatise on Relics written by John Calvin and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation, and a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. In 1543 he penned A Treatise on Relics, and their religious-historical influence.

Download or read book The European Encyclopedia written by Jeff Loveland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized thematically, this book tells the story of the European encyclopedia from 1650 to the present.

Download or read book Dragon s Milk written by Susan Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You must go to the dragon. You must leave tonight." Before she even hears the words, Kaeldra already knows what she must do. She must search out the mother dragon whose draclings have just hatched and somehow get some of her precious milk. It's the only way to save her foster-sister's life. Kaeldra would rather not go. It's much too terriffying, much too dangerous. But Kaeldra knows that she's the only one who can do it. For she is the only one who can actually communicate with dragons. But little does Kaeldra know what she's getting into. She's about to begin a journey that will entwine her fate with that of three little draclings and one would-be dragonslayer. A journey the will become a struggle for life.

Download or read book Collier s New Encyclopedia written by William A. Neilson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mango written by Richard E. Litz and published by CABI. This book was released on 2009 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: botany and importance. Taxonomy and systematics. Important mango cultivars and their descriptors. Breeding and genetics. Reproductive physiology. Ecophysiology. Fruit diseases. Foliar, floral and soilborne diseases. Physiological disorders. Pests. Crop production: propagation. Crop production: mineral nutrition. Crop production management. Postharvest physiology. Postharvest technology and quarantine treatments. World mango trade and the economics of mango production. Fruit processing. Biotechnology.

Download or read book From Origin to Ecology written by Jane Frazier and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frazier examines Merwin's poetry with regard to ecocriticism, anthropology, Merwin's fellow poets, Merwin criticism, and his own essays and interviews. Of central importance is Merwin's indebtedness to Henry David Thoreau, his sense that Thoreau guided American writing in a new direction whereby nature could be seen as something of value for itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing written by Jerome Neu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What makes a sexual desire "perverse," or particular sexual relations (such as incestuous ones) undesirable or even unthinkable? These and other questions about what sustains and threatens our identity are pursued using the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines. The discussion throughout is informed and motivated by the Spinozist hope that understanding our lives can help change them, can help make us more free.

Download or read book Collier s Encyclopedia 1986 written by Collier Staff and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1986-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Battlefield UpSapiens written by Augustin Ostace and published by Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: …Could be set the spirit of Sapiens in motion and emotion to achieve another level of Sapiens as UP – SAPIENS?... …By re-thinking another symbiosis between the enlarged of the horizon of the evolution since Primate Order, Hominid Family Genus Homo and the profundity of Sapiens in its ongoing spirit of abstractness, spirit of creativity, spirit of reason, spirit of the freedom through self consciousness, all of them leading towards a possible UP-SAPIENS?... …In this way, UP-SAPIENS could include a triad of becoming out of the classical Sapiens, namely, Bionics Sapiens ( the man of implanted organs ) Robotics Sapiens ( the man of digital technology) and Cloned Sapiens ( by cloning the sameness with improvement in prolonged longevity in working ability – working productivity – working creativity) …Thus, the era of Becoming into Sapiens means a fierce battlefield between the classic of science, technology, history or anthropology, towards UP-SAPIENS in its derivates as SAPIENTISMUS – SAPIENTOLOGISMUS and POSTSAPIENTISMUS… Sapientologist

Download or read book Adventures in Paranormal Investigation written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of alien abductions, miraculous relics, and haunted castles have attracted believers and skeptics across the globe for centuries. Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell tackles the world's most seemingly inexplicable myths in Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. With four decades of experience in the field, Nickell employs skepticism and scientific analysis to pull truth from the mires of false evidence and trickery that surround both old and new legends and mysteries. Unlike authors who engage in hype and sensationalism in order to foster or debunk myths, Nickell approaches each case with a rational and scientific approach intended to find the truth. Occam's Razor—all things being equal, the simplest solution is the best one—is a principal instrument in his investigative toolbox, as well as the belief that it is the claimant's responsibility to provide the extraordinary proof required in such extraordinary cases. Adventures in Paranormal Investigation features Nickell's on-site explorations in unusual phenomena. Among the forty unique cases, Nickell examines mysteries ranging from snake charmers who purport to hold influence over the reptiles, to the Holocaust victims who reportedly haunt a gas chamber in Dachau, to Lake Simcoe's resident lake monster Igopogo in Canada. In addition to the case studies, Nickell analyzes how the propensity to fantasize can affect human perceptions of and belief in paranormal activity and how his personal experience with the paranormal was altered when intuition led to the discovery of a daughter he didn't know existed. More than just another myth-busting text, Adventures in Paranormal Investigation brings together reason and scientific analyses to explain both the phenomena and the role of human perception therein, establishing Nickell as the foremost paranormal investigator of our time.

Download or read book Collier s Encyclopedia written by Frank Webster Price and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Responding to Crises in the Modern Infrastructure written by K. Quigley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines comparatively the US and the UK governments' management of Y2K and considers the extent to which such management can be understood as responses to market pressures, public opinion and organized interests. It concludes by providing valuable lessons to those concerned about managing risk and critical infrastructure today.

Download or read book The Anti Gospel written by Edward Hendrie and published by Great Mountain Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people who attend their church services each week are not hearing the gospel. They are hearing an anti-gospel. The devil is a very subtle liar who opposes God and his gospel. See Genesis 3:1; John 8:44. That old serpent has stealthily introduced his deceptive anti-gospel into the pulpits of churches around the world. He has very craftily mixed the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees into the gospel and ruined the whole loaf. Matthew 16:6-12. The resulting false gospel is premised on the idea that all men are freed from the bondage to sin and therefore have the ability to choose of their own free will whether or not to believe in Jesus. This is not a dispute over a fine distinction that is only of interest to theologians. This issue goes to the heart of the gospel. It goes to the heart of salvation. It goes to the heart of who is Jesus. The bible states that man is spiritually dead and must be born again by the power of God. Ephesians 2:1-6; John 3:3-8. God has elected certain to be saved by his grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:3-9; 2:8-10. He imbues his elect with the faith needed to believe in Jesus. Romans 3:21-26; John 1:12-13. The devil’s false gospel reverses the order of things. Under the false gospel preached in most churches, Jesus does not choose his elect for salvation, instead all men have a free will to choose Jesus. Instead of God choosing man, man chooses God. This mythology is not supported by the bible. It is at the heart of a devilish conspiracy against God and man. The free will anti-gospel denies the sovereignty of God and blasphemously makes God out to be a liar. The free will gospel is a heathen gospel that has a god, but that god is not the God of the bible. The calling of the true Jesus is effectual; all who are chosen for salvation will believe in him. John 6:37-40. The free will gospel has a false Jesus who only offers the possibility of salvation, with no assurance. The scriptures warn about such a false Jesus. 2 Corinthians 11:4. The free will gospel denies the total depravity of man and the sovereign election of God. The true gospel has a Jesus who loves only his children and saves them for eternity in heaven. The devilish anti-gospel has a false Jesus who loves everyone in the world, but this false Jesus casts most of those whom he loves in hell, suffering in torments for eternity in a lake of fire. The true Jesus makes it clear in Matthew 7 that he never loved those who are sent to hell. “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:23. See also Romans 9:21-23. The true God of the bible saves those whom he has elected for salvation and he condemns those whom he has elected for condemnation. See Romans 9. The false Jesus of the anti-gospel looks on helplessly while the sinner who is spiritually dead in trespasses and sin decides whether to believe in him. The true Jesus preordained and chose his elect to believe in him before the foundation of the world. Ephesians 1:4-5. The false Jesus is an impotent Jesus, who must yield to the desires of men; if men decide after they are saved that they would rather reject Jesus and take their chances with being thrown into hell, they can forfeit their salvation. The false Jesus is powerless to stop them. The true Jesus is Lord of Lords and King of Kings, who is able to preserve his elect and will lose none of those whom he has chosen for salvation. John 10:27-29.

Download or read book The Star entangled Banner written by Sharon Delmendo and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at the problematic relationship between the Phillippines and the US. It argues that when faced with a national crisis or a compelling need to reestablish its autonomy, each nation paradoxically turns to its history with the other to define its place in the world.

Download or read book BEING EDENTATION 1 written by Augustin Ostace and published by Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To our Father of Cosmology, the creator of all basic foundations of the present Universe, by calling them through a three times of triad, as: Genesis – Evolution – Becoming Space – Time – Causality Matter – Form – Energy Gravitation – Field of Forces – Numerology! To our Mother Biology, the creator of Life on our planetary system, having the basic characteristics through the next triads of Life, as the next ones: Cell Singularity – Cell Prokaryote – Cell Eukaryote Multicellularity – Plants – Animals Vertebrates – Mammalians – Primates Hominidology – Anthropology – Sapientology To our Father / Mother Sapiens, to whom we are fully indebted for all basic characteristics of Species Sapiens, also in three times triad of anatomical characteristics, as the next ones: Upright posture – Free Hands – Tools maker Enlarged Brains – Language – Alphabet Domestication of Plants & Animals – Division of Labor – Developer of Culture and Civilization. To my mother Victoria, the greatest incessant stimulant as human being in my whole life, who proved to be more than any encouragement by the creation by her son of the monumental work called THE AREA OF PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS, later on multiplied by the next AERAS; AERA OF PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS (AERA-1) AERA OF SAPIENTOLOGICAL SYSTEM (AERA-2) AERA OF VIDEOLOGICAL SYSTEM ( AERA-4 ) AERA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM (AERA-4) „Being and Edentation 1 - GnathoAnamnesis” is a combination of Dentistry as a physiology and human pathology in Total Edentation, and Gnathology, an interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary super-concept, with a recombination between dentistry, general medicine, philosophy, psychology, theology, anthropology and sapientology, all in their theoretical, conceptological and videological complementarity… In principle, this set of books- works under the generic name of Being and Edentation, belong to the ERA OF PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS, in the following hierarchical inscription: I. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE I.2. METAPHYSICS OF LIVING SYSTEMS I.2.6. GNATHOLOGICUM I.2.6.4. GNATHOPROTETICUM But, for the simplification of the hierarchical code, will be used just the ISBN code, which will be displayed within technical cassette of every E- book! Video-Gnathologist-in-Becoming