Central-Station Electric Lighting With Notes on the Methods Used for the Distribution of Electricity is a comprehensive and authoritative guide that delves into the principles, design, and operation of central-station electric lighting systems as they were developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Authored by William Maver, Jr., this book offers a detailed exploration of the technical and practical aspects of generating and distributing electricity from a central location to hom...

Flycatchers!Can you imagine? Bug thieves! Flying around snatching bugs right out of the air.Can you believe it? Snatching everybody's favorite bug at that.....the amazing firefly!The most phenomenal bug there is! Awesome, because it lights up on its own; no wires, no batteries! Scientists call this amazing feat "cold heat" - light without heat! These bugs are pretty special. And, for the kids in Flycatchers! they are captivating. So....What's the catch? Read and see!

A challenging controversial discussion of the current state of the debate about Christianity and other world faiths.

The textbook begins with a chapter on exclusivism, inclusivism, particularity and pluralism, and one on interfaith. Each chapter explains the history, rationale and workings of the various approaches. Moreover, each is divided into sub-sections dealing with various forms of each approach, so that each may be appreciated in its individuality, i.e. the chapter on 'Inclusivism' will include sections on 'fulfilment theology' 'anonymous Christians', etc.The second part of this textbook deals wi...

A powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives. A searing look at mass incarceration, prison education, and criminal justice reform, it offers a human portrait of those too often ignored by American society.Pulitzer Prize–winning journal...

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class—investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, an...

Four friends find themselves boarded up in their own home as the world outside collapses. Riots have broken out and now spread to their neighborhood. When one friend is brutally injured by a crazed attacker, it up to the remaining friends to decide his fate.

Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot. Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb thrower, who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most important thinkers, he has been relegated to the margins because...

**With intimate and harrowing portraits of the human consequences of oppression, occupation, and violence experienced in Palestine today, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges issues a call to action urging us to bear witness and engage with the ongoing humanitarian crisis.Hedges wrote the first section of the book when he was in Ramallah in July 2024, and he draws from his experience doing extensive reporting from the Middle East, including Gaza, for the New York Time...

From a bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a scathing polemic against the spectacle-obsessed culture that has taken over American life.**“A trenchantly argued critique of the near-destruction of the American Dream by unfettered capitalism.” —**Philadelphia InquirerAn instant bestseller, Chris Hedges’s Empire of Illusion is one of the most striking and unsettling explorations of illusion and fantasy in...

A "funny and supremely moving"novel about a seven-year-old navigating a world of turmoil by the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( Harper's Bazaar).Seven-year-old Scotty Ocean decides that seven is going to be "his year." But soon after his birthday, his artist-turned-alcoholic mother abandons the family—leaving Scotty and his two older sisters alone with their father. As his perfect year falls apart, Scotty begins to act out during school a...

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate.America, says Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, a...