Illuminati

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Fagan, Myron

World

A Distant Mirror

The Imitation of Christ

Religion & Spirituality

Kempis), Thomas (À

Christian Books & Bibles

The Strange Voyage of Máel Dúin: A Journey to the Otherworld

Computers & Technology

MAJOR, DAVID

Computer Science

At nearer the age of five than four, illegally sold into the London chimney sweeping trade as a chimney sweep's apprentice--a Climbing Boy--for the pittance of back rent owed to the landlord of the shack he had lived in with his widowed, just-deceased mother, Zachariah became little more than a slave to his owner, an abusive inebriate. His mother dead these past five years, the image of her face fading from memory, the little child struggled to remember, but appearing only in deep shadow, even in his dreams, the boy could no longer envision his mother. Then on this day before Christmas in 1843, the very day of the same mystical Christmas Eve that Ebenezer Scrooge had his three ghostly visitors, the oddly familiar face of a kindly lady struck a deep chord that rekindled the memory of the image missing from his dreams--the face of his mother--and gave Zachariah hope for the future. Finally, left alone to find his way home on this magical Christmas Eve, encountering his intoxicated master and severely beaten, Zachariah is saved by.

The Climbing Boy

Literature & Fiction

Lichterman, Mark

Genre Fiction

Spring, 1956, Brighton Beach, New York: an old man crossing a street eerily foretells the future of the young man sitting in a car waiting for the red to turn to green... Remember? ... the day a middle-aged woman sat down in a bus, and a Southern Baptist minister gained national prominence? ... the day a mysterious, intermittent beep, beep, beep... ushered in the dawn of the space age? ... the day that ushered in America's dawn of integration-when two U.S. armies stood face to face with bayoneted rifles outside an American high school? ... the day America tottered on the brink of nuclear war? ... the day a line was drawn in the ocean, and the other guy blinked? ... the winter day when America forever lost its innocence? FOR BETTER OR WORSE Seven years that changed the history of the world and the complexion of America. Taking place in New York City, Chicago and Central Illinois, the characterizations and situations coinciding with historical events. Paths crossed when he was five years old while crossing a street with his mother on the west side of Chicago, the same old man seen again crossing a street in Brighton Beach, New York... seventeen years later. Through seven years as two familiar young people become an adult man and woman, a husband and wife and, eventually, responsible parents. Realistically written, humanly, visually sexual, be there as this love-to-hatred, hatred-to-love marriage entwines through the history of the mid-1950's into the '60's.

For Better or Worse

Eugene Marais spent three years living in the South African wilderness in close daily contact with a troop of baboons. He later described this as the happiest, most content time of his troubled life. This period produced two works which are testament to his research and conclusions; they have very different histories.
Firstly, there was a series of articles written in Afrikaans for the newspaper Die Vaderland. They were then published in book form under the title Burgers van die Berge, and were first published in an English translation in 1939 under the title My Friends the Baboons. These pieces were written in a popular vein suitable to a newspaper readership, and were not regarded seriously by Marais himself. They are a journal; a series of anecdotes and impressions.
The Soul of the Ape, which Marais wrote in wonderfully clear and precise English, was the more serious scientific document; however after his death in 1936, it could not be found. It was lost for 32 years, and was recovered in 1968, and published the following year.
The excellent introduction by Robert Ardrey that is included in this volume was part of the 1969 and subsequent editions of The Soul of the Ape, and adds greatly to an appreciation of its importance.
Together, these three texts give us as complete a picture as we will ever get of Marais’ three year study of these complex relatives of humanity, and its implications for the study of consciousness.
Eugѐne Marais is also the author of The Soul of the White Ant, his exploration of the psyche and social life of the termite. It was always his intention that the two bodies of work, on termites and apes, were companion pieces in the search for an understanding of the psyche that would span the gulf between the insect and primate worlds. The point of Marais’ work was, always, the mystery of consciousness itself, on which grounds it is as relevant as ever.“He offers a vision of nature as a whole, whose parts obey different time-laws, move in affinities and linkages we could learn to see: parts making wholes on their own level, but seen by our divisive brains as a multitude of individualities, a flock of birds, a species of plant or beast. We are just at the start of an understanding of the heavens as a web of interlocking clocks, all differently set: an understanding that is not intellectual, but woven into experience. Marais brings this thought down into the plain, the hedgerow, the garden.” - Doris Lessing in The New StatesmanContentsIntroduction by Robert ArdreyTHE SOUL OF THE APE<ol>
<li>Means and Methods of Research</li>
<li>Habits Acquired in Different Environments</li>
<li>Phyletic and Individual Memory</li>
<li>The Selective Cause</li>
<li>Addiction and Depression</li>
<li>Submerged Instinctive Attributes in Man</li>
<li>Hypnotic Hyperaesthesia</li>
<li>The Sense of Locality, Hypnotic and Normal</li>
<li>Specific Consequences of the Evolution of Primate Mentality</li>
<li>Divergence From Type</li>
<li>Disturbances of the Sexual Sense</li>
</ol>MY FRIENDS THE BABOONS<ol>
<li>The Habits of the Baboons</li>
<li>The Distribution of the Baboon</li>
<li>The Baboons of Doornhoek</li>
<li>Birth Pain in Man and Animal</li>
<li>Behaviour and Character of Young Baboons</li>
<li>Friendship Between Men and Baboons</li>
<li>Baboons and Human Beings</li>
<li>Reason in Apes and Lower Species of Animal</li>
<li>Law and Government among the Baboons</li>
<li>Death among Baboons</li>
</ol>

The Soul of the Ape & My Friends the Baboons

Science & Math

Marais, Eugène

Biological Sciences

The Soil and Health

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Howard, Albert

Gardening & Landscape Design

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