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Sci-Fi Film Fiesta VOLUME 3: “OTHER WORLDS”

Sci-Fi Film Fiesta VOLUME 3: “OTHER WORLDS”

Chris Christopoulos | Reference
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The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? This volume of the “Sci-Fi Film Fiesta” series: VOLUME 3: OTHER WORLDS...

Sci-Fi Film Fiesta Volume 2: Into Space

Sci-Fi Film Fiesta Volume 2: Into Space

Chris Christopoulos | Reference
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The SCI-FI FILM FIESTA eBook series is intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers. May future generations have the privilege of enjoying your work and never stop wondering....What if? VOLUME 2: INTO SPACE covers various classic science fiction films from the 1950s...

Sci-Fi Film Fiesta Volume 1: Here Be Monsters

Sci-Fi Film Fiesta Volume 1: Here Be Monsters

Chris Christopoulos | Reference
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This volume is part of a series intended as a salute to the pioneering work of science fiction film makers from the ‘golden age’ of science fiction films of the 1950s. The films in this volume feature monsters that amongst other things, stand as metaphors for the fears of the time when people...

College Prolongs Infancy

College Prolongs Infancy

Horace M. Kallen | Reference
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“... the ideals and methods which are dynamic in our institutions of higher learning are false. They are false to the students, false to the social purpose which nourishes them, false to the inward nature of education itself. They are false because they are irrelevant. And they are irrelevant...

The House on Henry Street

The House on Henry Street

Lillian D. Wald | Reference
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Two decades ago the words “East Side” called up a vague and alarming picture of something strange and alien: a vast crowded area, a foreign city within our own, for whose conditions we had no concern. Aside from its exploiters, political and economic, few people had any definite knowledge of...

The Peoples of Europe

The Peoples of Europe

Herbert John Fleure | Reference
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If there be any truth in the view that our philosophical theories grow out of our circumstances, it cannot be doubted that the philosophy of change, sometimes optimistically called progress, is curiously appropriate to Europe. The intimate juxtaposition of small areas of mountain and plateau, of...

Whale Hunting With Gun and Camera

Whale Hunting With Gun and Camera

Roy Chapman Andrews | Reference
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In this book I have endeavored to tell of modern shore whaling as I have seen it during the past eight years while collecting and studying cetaceans for the American Museum of Natural History. This work carried me twice around the world, as well as northward on two expeditions to Alaska, and...

Dr. Courtney’s Guide to Happy Marriage

Dr. Courtney’s Guide to Happy Marriage

A. B. Courtney | Reference
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Marriage ought to be consummated as the result of mutual love and esteem, and not for the purpose of simply gratifying the desires of our lower nature. This last consideration is, it must be acknowledged, a controlling one with a great many people, and marriages contracted in this manner are not...

Malthus and his work

Malthus and his work

James Bonar | Reference
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Of the three English writers whose work has become a portion of all Political Economy, Malthus is the second in time and in honour. His services to general theory are at least equal to Ricardo’s; and his full illustration of one particular detail will rank with the best work of Adam Smith.

Thoughts upon Slavery

Thoughts upon Slavery

John Wesley | Reference
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By Slavery I mean Domestic Slavery, or that of a servant to a master. A late ingenious Writer well observes, “The variety of forms in which Slavery appears, makes it almost impossible to convey a just notion of it, by way of definition. There are however certain properties which have accompanied...