Alexander Wallace Rimington pioneered the synthesis of colour and music, marrying the arts of sound and light to a mutual aesthetic and emotional effect. In this book he explains his art in detail, complete with photographs of the Colour Organ, an explanation of the relationship between the musical scale and color, and a lengthy discussion of scientific/psychological theory related to colour and harmony."Very briefly, my aim has been to deal with Colour in a new way, and to place it...

The United States is, relatively speaking, a new country; the colonies from which it sprung were settled by Europeans in the seventeenth century, and it gained independence only in the late eighteenth century. Despite this relative youth, the country has been host to a rich tradition of folklore and tall tales. This begs the question: if the country's fate had turned out differently, what would have this storytelling tradition have looked like? What stories would be told in these other Ame...

What will the end of the world be like?Plague or nuclear fire? Asteroids or floods?Divine wrath or people meddling with what should have been left alone?The apocalypse may come in the future, but what apocalypses might have occurred if history had played out differently? What if nukes had flown during the Cuban Missile Crisis? What if an asteroid had been on a collision course with Earth before the first person could set foot on the Moon? What if humanity destroyed it...