20,000 Years on the Merrimack River Starting at its headwaters in Franconia Notch, the Merrimack rushes 117 miles to its mouth in Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it also spans 20,000 years of history crucial to the development of the American continent and the United States. This book brims with the colorful characters and crucial events that set the United States on its present trajectory. It tells the story of Paleo- Indians hunting migrating caribou on the river's shores. It tells of the Great Pine Tree Riot that kicked off the American Revolution and the China trade that provided the country luxury and capital. It tells the story of the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack that changed Navel warfare and the river's mills that led to the industrial procedures we still practice today. Finally it shows how wastes from industries like tanning, lumbering and humans themselves have accumulated in the river and points towards innovative ways to return the Merrimack to its once clean and pristine state.

20,000 Years on the Merrimack River

History

SARGENT, WILLIAM

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Strawberry Hill Press

Noted science writer William Sargent delves into the murky, often intertwined worlds of medical research and biological warfare to determine if Covid-19 was caused by accidents similar to those that have occurred from 1617 to the present. Sargent reveals that mistakes made in dual use medical research and biological weapons facilities led to tick borne diseases in the United States, smallpox, anthrax and other germ outbreaks in Russia. He helps unearth the factors that caused Covid-19, closing with the hope that these conditions will be altered or permanently banned in the future.

Terror by Error? The COVID Chronicles

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

In 2018 William Sargent finished his fourth book about the politics of erosion on Plum Island and needed to clear his head. So he decided to embark on a series of rambles from New Hampshire to Gloucester, Massachusetts. His purpose was to investigate the natural history of this beautiful coast. But as so happens when writing about natural history today he ended up discovering a troubling new environmental catastrophe, the die-offs of whales, seals and shorebirds from the buildup of chemicals that have been steadily accumulating in the lungs of the planet--our oceans.

North of Boston- Whales and Tales

Biological Sciences

For the past decade award winning science writer William Sargent has been exploring the effects of coastal erosion on Plum Island in Northern Massachusetts. For most of that time people had been making poor decisions based on faulty science. Things started to change when a group of Woods Hole scientists produced the first piece of solid science about the island. Armed with that understanding, residents took two steps forward to slow erosion until politics drove them three steps backwards in 2018. This book chronicles that tumultuous year.

Plum Island; Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Backwards 2018

Nature & Ecology

On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it was only the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between man and nature on this fragile barrier beach. Plum Island takes readers to the core of the earth to see how Plum Island’s sands were first formed in the metamorphic forge of the earth’s interior. It will then follow these minerals as they erode off the sides of New Hampshire’s Ice Age Mountains and then wash down the proto Merrimack River to form Plum Island. It will chronicle the lives of the Wooly Mammoth, Paleo-Indians, fishermen, farmers, sand miners and rum runners who made a good but hard living on this rugged island in the past and the homeowners, lawyers and scientists who are locked in present battles about its future. In the end, Plum Island puts a human face on the larger story of how coastal communities must inevitably come to grips with the impact of Sea level rise on our ever-warming planet.

Plum Island; 4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach

Plum Island is a living laboratory to study the effects of storms, climate change and sea level rise. This book chronicles the events of 2016 when island residents started turning away from fighting the Atlantic Ocean and the Army Corps of Engineers to working with nature to slow erosion. It tells the engaging story of people lives being transformed by nature, science and our rapidly evolving environment. This is the third book in a series about the changing face of Plum Island that includes, "Islands in the Storm," "Plum Island; 4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach" and "Plum Island 2016."

Plum Island 2016

For the past decade award winning science writer William Sargent has been exploring the effects of coastal erosion on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. For most of that time people have been making poor decisions based on faulty science. Things started to change in the wake a Hurricane Sandy when a group of Woods Hole scientists produced the first piece of solid science about the island. Armed with that understanding, residents started to work with nature to slow erosion. This book chronicles the resurrection of the island that started in 2017.  

Plum Island 2017: The Resurrection

Book by Bruce L. Cathie, Peter N. Temm

UFOs and anti-gravity

Bruce L. Cathie

Peter N. Temm

Look into the fascinating and mysterious world of paranormal phenomena and the interaction of mind and matter in terms of the new physics. In this quintessential guide, Tom Bearden uses a sampling of paranormal phenomena that demand explanation to drive a theoretical framework that enables us to understand psychotronics, UFOs and psi phenomena. The book also covers new military applications of psi research, and Soviet phase-conjugate directed-energy weapons. Because of its revolutionary content which pulled the veil back from the 'hidden sciences,' incredible efforts were made to suppress this book. Author Thomas E. Bearden is a claimed inventor of various 'overunity systems' (perpetual motion) and free energy devices. He is also an advocate of scalar waves.

Excalibur briefing

T.E. Bearden

The Taoist philosophy of self-healing, spiritual development and selfenergizing is delineated through internal exercises, including meditation and breathing exercises

The Book of Internal Exercises

Stephen Thomas Chang

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