A fascinating exploration of the USDA’s national fungus collection, offering readers an intimate portrait of America’s elusive fungi species.The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Fungus Collections is one of the world’s largest mycological institutions, housing over a million species of fungi. Mycologist Maurice Burke Walters’s collection of fungi is also housed here—a fascinating collection revealing the often-solitary forays of the rather-retirin...

Descubre la Vida Inspiradora, el Legado y las Enseñanzas del Último Mensajero del Islam¿Cómo puedes conocer el propósito de tu vida si no recibes instrucciones claras de tu Creador? Dios envió miles de profetas, incluido el Profeta Muhammad (la paz sea con él), el último mensajero, para transmitir el mensaje divino: adorar al único Dios verdadero y seguir sus mandamientos.Este libro, "La Vida del Profeta Muhammad (la paz sea con él): Una Historia Re...

The unnamed author of this charming almanac/cookbook concoction was as a "lady of [New York] who has kept an extensive Boarding-house, for twenty-two years in Pearl St." She took her almanac word for word, even using the same typesetting, from the most recent Farmer's Almanac for 1840 by David Young. But in addition to the traditional almanac information on daily and monthly calendars, weather, and astronomical events, she included over 250 recipes in the art of cooking, pastry, and confec...

This book deals with the general intelligence of Bees and Wasps; their powers of Communication; powers of special sense, memory and emotions; their general habits in architecture, wars...“Those who have stored honey in their houses understand very well how important it is to prevent a single bee from discovering its location. Such discovery is sure to be followed by a general onslaught from the hive unless all means of access is prevented...According to De Fravière, bees have...

According to the unknown author, "Without a perfect knowledge of the art of Carving, it is impossible to perform the honor of the table with propriety; and nothing can be more disagreeable to one of a sensitive disposition, than to behold a person, at the head of a well-furnished board, hacking the finest joints, and giving them the appearance of having been gnawed by dogs."This slim volume provides the dinner table host with detailed instructions and drawings for carving various f...

This book deals with the stories of the deluge found in history and literatures. Deluge is the name given to a submersion of the world, related by various nations as having taken place in a primitive age, and in which nearly all living beings are said to have perished. The expression usually refers to Noah's flood, the history of which is recorded in the Bible. The Biblical narrative shows that so far as the human race was concerned the Deluge was universal; that it swept away all men livi...

When we observe the small heads and unmeaning eyes of birds, we do not expect to find any great amount of intellect among them. They are, however, moved by the same passions and feelings as larger animals, and occasionally exhibit thought and reasoning power. I suspect, indeed, could we understand their language, that we should find they can talk to each other, and express their meaning as well as others of the brute creation.The following pages will deal with prominent features of ...

This book deals with the history of the sewing machine.After almost a century of attempts to invent a machine that would sew, the practical sewing machine evolved in the mid-19th century.In all the preceding centuries of civilization hand sewing was exclusively employed, and it was reserved for the Nineteenth Century to relieve women from the drudgery which for so many centuries had enslaved them.Embroidery machines had been patented in England by Weisenthal in 1755...

Wells defines two divergent types of mind by the relative importance they attach to things past or things to come. The former type he calls the legal or submissive mind, "because the business, the practice and the training of a lawyer dispose him toward it; he of all men must most constantly refer to the law made, the right established, the precedent set, and most consistently ignore or condemn the thing that is only seeking to establish itself." In opposition to this is "the legislative, ...

Babylon is considered as the third great empire of the history after Egypt and Assyria...The territory of Babylon lies diagonally from northwest to southeast, between 30° and 33° N. lat., and 44° and 48° E. long., or from the present city of Bagdad to the Persian Gulf, from the slopes of Khuzistan on the east to the Arabian Desert on the west, and is substantially contained between the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, though, to the west a narrow strip of cultivation on the right bank o...

This three story bundle, edited and compiled by Decadent Fantasies Collection, contains the following hot short stories:JUST RIDE: PART 2 (DESERT DEVILS MC)After meeting Vin, the Vice President of the Desert Devils MC, Mia can't seem to think of anything else. When Vin reveals what happened after the last night they spent together, Mia's dragged into the criminal side of the Motorcycle Club, unsure of whether she can handle it or not. But the potential she ...

This book deals with the ancient history of Fiji.The Fiji is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean that gained its independence in 1970. This former British colony consisting of an archipelago, the most important in Polynesia, lies between 15° and 20° South.The first western contact with Fiji was made in 1643 when Captain Abel Tasman entered Fijian waters and sighted several islands and reefs without realizing the nature of his discovery. Over a hundred years later, ...