non-fiction
In “The Shores of Wisdom”, Derek Adie Flower gives a delightful story of the rise and fall of the Ancient Library of Alexandria – the world’s power of knowledge and culture twenty-three centuries ago. Flower tells the story with a unique style, giving us glimpses of the forces which made the place prosper [...]
I was born in Geneva, brought up in Egypt, educated at English, French and Italian schools before graduating at Oxford. I have written and published fiction and non fiction as can be seen on my website: www derekflower.com
Presently, I live with my wife in the historic Villa Borghese at Nettuno near Rome and am working on a new episode of 'The Weird and Wonderful adventures of Tim Wessurp, 'TWERP', written for young adults.
Did you know that it is impossible to tell the difference between reality and an illusion?
Did you know that it is impossible to tell the difference between “the past” and implanted memories?
Did you you know that we are only 30 years away from technologies that could completely fool us through implanted memories and full-scale total-immersion [...]
Author Jim Elvidge holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has applied his training in the high-tech world as a leader in technology and enterprise management, including many years in executive roles for various companies and entrepreneurial ventures. He also holds 4 patents in digital signal processing.
Beyond the high-tech realm, however, Elvidge has years of experience as a musician, writer, and truth seeker. He merged his technology skills with his love of music, developed one of the first PC-based digital music samplers, and co-founded Ra . . .
EUGÈNE MARAIS: BABOONS, TERMITES, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE
Where is the soul of a termite, or that of a man?
“Someone once said that all behaviourism in nature could be referred to as hunger. This saying has been repeated thousands of times yet is false. Hunger itself is pain – the most severe pain [...]
I am a qualified Topo-cadastral, Engineering, and Geodetic Surveyor (Geodetic Engineering) and have a doctorate in Business Economics and Management.
I have retired in 2002 because of a very serious heart condition and I keep myself busy now by writing about science, mathematics, philosophy, and religion. Now, I am also a 'qualified' Type 1 Diabetic too!
I was born in South Africa, and I grew up on the gold mines of the Transvaal, and worked as a land surveyor, geodetic engineer, business economist, consultant, entrepreneur, university lecturer, and freelance researcher. Both my father a . . .
THE END IS NEAR, unless you fight your own battle. Everything I have shared with you was written from my heart and soul, as I have done with all my manuscripts. Sincerity runs throughout the text of my books, like blood circulating through my veins and arteries. I hope you will pick [...]
W. Everett Beal, R.Ph., was born in Valdosta, Georgia, and has lived in the South all of his life. In addition to being a professional pharmacist, the owner of two pharmacies, sportsman, and outdoor writer, he appeared on nine television shows, had his own radio show and acted in two movies. As well as being the author of Southern Winds, he has written and published more than five-hundred stories in newspapers and magazines.
When Dr. Beal retired, he moved to the northeast Georgia Mountains in Dillard and Sky Valley where he and his wife, Judy, lived for sixteen years. He owned and operated . . .
INTRODUCTION
SO MANY WARNINGS OVERLOOKED
This is the second book I have written to make the world aware that this generation is exposed to drugs and alcohol on a daily basis. Drug abuse touches every family in America. I am told that every campus in [...]
W. Everett Beal, R.Ph., was born in Valdosta, Georgia, and has lived in the South all of his life. In addition to being a professional pharmacist, the owner of two pharmacies, sportsman, and outdoor writer, he appeared on nine television shows, had his own radio show and acted in two movies. As well as being the author of Southern Winds, he has written and published more than five-hundred stories in newspapers and magazines.
When Dr. Beal retired, he moved to the northeast Georgia Mountains in Dillard and Sky Valley where he and his wife, Judy, lived for sixteen years. He owned and operated . . .
Basically, human development is concerned with working out inwardly our experiences of the external world and thereby developing the inner qualities that makes us human.
While the external world provides the initial experiences, it is within our inner nature that the work that carries us forward has to be done.
We have to wrestle with our problems [...]
I am a qualified Topo-cadastral, Engineering, and Geodetic Surveyor (Geodetic Engineering) and have a doctorate in Business Economics and Management.
I have retired in 2002 because of a very serious heart condition and I keep myself busy now by writing about science, mathematics, philosophy, and religion. Now, I am also a 'qualified' Type 1 Diabetic too!
I was born in South Africa, and I grew up on the gold mines of the Transvaal, and worked as a land surveyor, geodetic engineer, business economist, consultant, entrepreneur, university lecturer, and freelance researcher. Both my father a . . .
 Following is an excerpt from Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel’s Ballads – a book about awakening to one’s authenticity using ecologic tenets as guidance.
Nature’s goal is a sustained state of dynamic equilibrium; your goal is a sustained progression along the ever-evolving expression of your highest level of authenticity. Nature has self-regulators [...]
Artist, writer and environmental educator, Gianetta Ellis is the creator of stewARTship studios where she "incorporates art to stewardship" by using the fine arts as a means for students to build enduring connections to self and nature. Ellis is the author of Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads, which advances a unique approach to ecopsychology by demonstrating how ecologic tenets can guide us in our effort to live the highest expression of an authentic life.
A proposition: I finally figured it out that the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
The doctrine: I wish to propose for the reader’s favourable consideration a doctrine, which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there [...]
I am a qualified Topo-cadastral, Engineering, and Geodetic Surveyor (Geodetic Engineering) and have a doctorate in Business Economics and Management.
I have retired in 2002 because of a very serious heart condition and I keep myself busy now by writing about science, mathematics, philosophy, and religion. Now, I am also a 'qualified' Type 1 Diabetic too!
I was born in South Africa, and I grew up on the gold mines of the Transvaal, and worked as a land surveyor, geodetic engineer, business economist, consultant, entrepreneur, university lecturer, and freelance researcher. Both my father a . . .
It was a golden Indian summer day in late September. After working
up a sweat rollerblading on the rail trail I went for a long swim in the cool
waters of Mudge Pond. Only a few Canadian geese paddling off shore
broke the silence. I lay in the sand fi lling my open pores with the warm
rays of [...]
Bruce Morse is a published author. He is the author of "Forgive Myself". Bruce is also a professional photographer and painter.
A short summary of the book, "I built a fortress to hide from the world. I built a prison to lock up my heart and soul. But life has a way of tearing down walls. Institutionalized at thirteen, diagnosed schizophrenic at 24, losing a son at 45, this is the story of how my walls shattered, my defenses collapsed and I was given the gift of confronting my deepest fears. It is also the story of the people in my life, those who wounded me, those I wounded, those who inspir . . .
There was a time, not long ago, when most people thought that blind people could never learn to read. People thought that the only way to read was to look at words with your eyes. A young French boy named Louis Braille thought otherwise. Blind from the age of three, young Louis desperately wanted to [...]
Phil Shapiro delivered the keynote address at the annual Computers in Adult Literacy conference in Philadelphia in 2000. He blogs on the group blog, Community Voices, at PCWorld.com. He has worked for the Arlington Public Schools as an Instructional Technology Coorinator. Please see the complete bio for more information.
