Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 4 November 2010
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Lieutenant at Eighteen
These books are all you could hope for: breathlessly optimistic stories of train wrecks, steamboat explosions, an escape from Libby Prison, secret codes deciphered, blockade runners foiled, slaveholders defied, betrayals and reverses, etc. etc. You also get Oliver Optic’s weirdly amiable and funny narrative voice—“weird” in the context of the subject matter. The books were written at the end of the Civil War, while the artillery barrels were still cooling and the bodies being shipped home from the battlefields for burial.
Weird Astronomy: Tales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard to Explain Observations
Weird Astronomy appeals to all who are interested in unusual celestial phenomena, whether they be amateur or professional astronomers or science buffs who just enjoy reading of odd coincidences, unexplained observations, and reports from space probes that "don’t quite fit." This book relates a variety of "unusual" astronomical observations ??unusual in the sense of refusing to fit easily into accepted thinking, or unusual in the observation having been made under difficult or extreme circumstances. Although some of the topics covered are instances of "bad astronomy," most are not. Some of the observations recorded here have actually turned out to be important scientific breakthroughs.
The book is a collection of, well, as the title says, weekly weird news from around the world. The news items cover a wide range of topics, providing good fun as well as food for thought. The items can be used as warmups for reading, writing, speaking, vocabulary and grammar classes with higher level students, depending on the creativity level of the teacher.
Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs: Mysterious Creatures, Lost Worlds and Amazing Inventions
Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet? Does a real-life Shangri-La lie waiting to be discovered in a Himalayan valley? Do transmissions from lost civilizations beam messages of salvation to humankind? What lost creatures lurk in the murky depths of Scotland's brooding Loch Ness? And who - or what - is responsible for the implacable monoliths which tower over Easter Island?
It's the best book you could ever find on psychic developement. It has everything, to energy manipulation to psychometry. She shows you how to open up psychicaly step by step and the exercises are really gonna help you to develop you psychic skills. I think it's weird no body wrote a review before me because it's really the best book on psychism.
