John Bulkeley y John Cummins participaron de la accidentada expedición encabezada por George Anson, que en el siglo XVII recorrió los mares del mundo. En este relato, los dos navegantes dan cuenta de uno de los muchos capítulos de la famosa travesía signada por terribles calamidades desde su inicio, el 18 de septiembre de 1740. El testimonio de Bulkeley y Cummins, publicado en 1743, fue el primer documento que conoció la opinión pública sobre el destino de la expedición de Anson, de la que...

The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how much damage spiking temperatures will wreak, we know the threat to our homes, health, and even way of life is dire. So why isn’t America doing anything? Where is the national campaign to stop this catastrophe?It may lie between the covers of this book. Ignition brings together some of the world’s finest thinkers and advocates to jump start the ultimate green revolution. Including...

At one time when an individual wanted a direct, personal experience of God that person turned to his or her dreams. The early third century Christian defender of the faith, Tertullian, observed, "Is it not known to all people that the dream is the most usual way that God reveals himself to man?" Yet by the eleventh century, King William II of England states, "They are not good Christians that regard dreams." Why did this reversal of opinion occur, not only in Christian thinking, but in Jew...