Our lives are filled with learned experiences of the world. We explore it to understand how we fit in where we come from, where we are going, and who we are. Mind, Body, Soul, Spirit—this is the Human Being. This is the essence of our identity, the collective consciousness of all who inhabit this vehicle. If you are looking for an exploratory view of life, then you might like this book. Potentially, these verses could guide and assist you on your path. These poems could reflect on what is ...

In the harrowing closing months of World War II, First Sergeant Anthony Rucker sprints across a perilous Okinawan battlefield, with bullets ripping through the air surrounding him. Each step taken is a struggle for existence, each breath a recollection of the life he abandoned. Conditioned to withstand, resolute in duty, and tested to the extreme, Anthony faces the brutal truth of combat as a comrade collapses dead beside him. Yet amidst the turmoil, recollections of his home drive him for...

This book I put together of four of the wilderness rivers that I and my friends have rafted. It is a small glimpse of those journeys.

A black cat and a pocket full of sea bass is not what you would usually expect to put you on the wrongside of time.After discovering a fat bottomed wood sprite with a penchant for blueberry cheesecake and fine wine wasvisiting his garden and being in possession of an over curious mind it was only a matter of time before thingswent pear shaped for John Living.Trapped in Old World and desperate to get home can a long dead, flatulent Aunt, an Ogre and a yo...

**"A quirky, oddly touching book that allows us to step, for a few moments, inside the world of a practicing Enlightenment scientist, to sit beside him as he fans the flames of a candle with his little blowpipe, waiting for that small mineral in front of him to melt and yield its secrets." —Wall Street JournalAn accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution.**James Smithson is best...

Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution.James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian...