David Manning wrote A Brief History of the Recent Future in the mid 1970s with the idea of satirizing the present by forecasting the most bizarre imaginable future. The result was a "verbally... More > animated cartoon" tracing the evolution of an apocalyptic conflict between proponents of ganic garbage vs those advocating ficial garbage as civilization's final energy resource. Along the way, the tale introduces such absurdities as a credit-system economy; the Bronx Sanitation Air Force; a 3,000-acre rubber-raft island named Carabia; a news toaster that burns headlines onto breakfast bread; and people metabolically transformed by Mango Tango, the core building block of the artificial ecosystem. Resurrected from the past, the book remains, after 35-plus years, a satiric fantasy, now looking back at the odd events nobody knows transpired but brought us to our increasingly dystopian state. Once the harbinger of a future too ridiculous to contemplate, the original bizarre predictions resonate more every day.< Less
This book is about man’s connection to the stars, how our existence came about and how knowledge was seeded on earth in man with an alien connection. In this book you will read what has been... More > found during investigations of all types that point to man being in contact with aliens for thousands of years. It is now estimated that between 200 and 400 billion planets exist just in our galaxy alone. So to think we are alone would be so delusional.< Less
This book is about man’s connection to the stars, how our existence came about and how knowledge was seeded on earth in man with an alien connection. In this book you will read what has been... More > found during investigations of all types that point to man being in contact with aliens for thousands of years. It is now estimated that between 200 and 400 billion planets exist just in our galaxy alone. So to think we are alone would be so delusional.< Less
This book is about man’s connection to the stars, how our existence came about and how knowledge was seeded on earth in man with an alien connection. In this book you will read what has been... More > found during investigations of all types that point to man being in contact with aliens for thousands of years. It is now estimated that between 200 and 400 billion planets exist just in our galaxy alone. So to think we are alone would be so delusional.< Less
This is a combination of the last 4 books on the history of mankind. From the flood to the future this discussion takes you from the true Aryan Wars, to the combined characteristics of some of the... More > most memorable seers and many from the Bible. Along the way, discussions about Pyramids, Sea monsters, and inappropriate science fills in many missing pieces not found in our history books.< Less
David Manning wrote A Brief History of the Recent Future in the mid 1970s with the idea of satirizing the present by forecasting the most bizarre imaginable future. The result was a "verbally... More > animated cartoon" tracing the evolution of an apocalyptic conflict between proponents of ganic garbage vs those advocating ficial garbage as civilization's final energy resource. Along the way, the tale introduces such absurdities as a credit-system economy; the Bronx Sanitation Air Force; a 3,000-acre rubber-raft island named Carabia; a news toaster that burns headlines onto breakfast bread; and people metabolically transformed by Mango Tango, the core building block of the artificial ecosystem. Resurrected from the past, the book remains, after 35-plus years, a satiric fantasy, now looking back at the odd events nobody knows transpired but brought us to our increasingly dystopian state. Once the harbinger of a future too ridiculous to contemplate, the original bizarre predictions resonate more every day.< Less
Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.
Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is... More > the only English monarch to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". Details of his life are described in a work by the 10th century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser. Alfred was a learned and merciful man who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system and military structure< Less
Heniek Wroczlawski, a survivor of Auschwitz, had kept most memories of the Holocaust to himself until two events occurred in 2006. First, his family showed him a photograph, newly culled from... More > archives, of Heniek with a group of children behind a fence at Auschwitz just before liberation. Secondly, a very curious granddaughter began asking questions, and Heniek decided to talk.< Less
The fascinating biography of Charles Cotter - planter, penkeeper in the Jamaica of the end of the nineteenth century and prior to The Great War, sailor, soldier and noted amateur archeologist,... More > lavishly illustrated and written by his son.< Less
