Fermi's paradox is based on the argument that there are possibly 40 million to 80 million planets in our Galaxy which could be inhabited by high tech civilizations. The paradox is in the form of a question: if there are this many high tech civilizations, why haven't they contacted us? The answer is found in this essay.

Must Listen for Persons on Their Journey to Self-DiscoveryMaxwell Maltz once said, “You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.”We often ask ourselves various questions in our search to discover our purpose, questions like, ‘Who am I? Why did I come to this world? What for? How can I become the best version of myself?These questions, though intriguing, leave us in an unending sea of doubts and dismays as we struggle...

“Daniel Malka began with nothing. He earned everything by blood, sweat and tears. He won many championships for his club and for the national team. However, unexpected misfortune ruined his life.”What a Footballer! tells the story of a poor boy named Daniel Malka who got the opportunity to represent a football club and moved from extreme poverty to great riches. With an enriched lifestyle of money, fame, luxurious rides, and everything he desired, Daniel lived his...

Ancient, medieval and modern, this book is a critical account of the historical, political and cultural roots of Zionism.Scrutinising the roots of the myths of Zionism and mobilising recent scholarship, John Rose shows how many of these stories, as with other mythologies, have no basis in fact. However, because Zionism is a living political force and these myths have been used to justify very real and political ends - namely, the expulsion and continuing persecution of the Palestin...

Must Read for Persons on Their Journey to Self-DiscoveryMaxwell Maltz once said, “you can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.”We often ask ourselves various questions in our search to discover our purpose, questions like, ‘who am I? Why did I come to this world? What for? How can I become the best version of myself?These questions, though intriguing, leave us in an unending sea of doubts and dismays as we struggle to come up...

In 1540, Hernando de Soto and 600 Spanish conquistadors crossed the Savannah River into what is now South Carolina and thus entered the empire of the Chicora, the largest and most powerful Native American Civilization in the Southeast. Modern archaeologists have yet to find any trace of that once vibrant society. Although now considered a lost civilization, when the Spanish arrived, the Chicora were led by a beautiful queen and had a magnificent temple filled with the remains of their hono...

A young man in the California gold rush, on a mission to deliver supplies by mule train to the new miners in the rugged Yuba River Valley, must go after ruthless bounty hunters who kidnapped the party's Chinese cook with the intention of returning him to the cruel whaleboat captain from whose ship the cook fled when it docked in San Francisco.After getting information in the new boom town of Nevada City, the young man realizes he must catch the kidnappers before they reach the port...

When a small, battered troop of Union Cavalry arrive at his ranch with a wounded Comanche boy as prisoner, Pecos Quinn is concerned. But he strongly objects when they suggest he return the boy to the Comanche homeland on the Staked Plains as a peace offering to the new chief, Quanah Parker, in hopes of preventing another war. It soon becomes obvious, however, that someone must go and the only other man available is a raw, inept lieutenant fresh from West Point. Fate and the Comanche have c...

Fancy Running is a guide to Fancy Dress Marathon Running written by Philip Rose, an experienced runner who has completed many marathons and holds a Guinness World Record for running the London Marathon. The book is a guide for novices and experienced runners and contains hints and tips on how to make the most of the experience of running in costume. It contains 13 chapters that take the reader on a journey from costume and race selection through training including both mindset and physical...

Not Every Prank is Funny…Especially in Oz…Barney Fields, a retired farmer, meets Billy, a homeless youngster, at a farm auction. Through a freak set of circumstances, Barney becomes the owner of a mule, Two-Bits, who can speak.A terrific windstorm comes up and Barney and his two new friends find a rolling horse tank and try to hold it down by getting inside. After being ripped from the earth and sailing through a stormy sky, they find themselves in Munchkin Country in Oz. A...

The line of Virgil quoted on the title-page represents in the present case a sigh of aspiration, not a paean of achievement. No historical student, surely, can ever feel the conviction that he has fathomed the depths of that well where Truth is said to lie hid. What, then, must be the feelings of one who ventures into the mazy domain of recent annals, and essays to pick his way through thickets all but untrodden? More than once I have been tempted to give up the quest and turn aside to pat...

This textbook for advanced courses in group theory focuses on finite groups, with emphasis on the idea of group actions. Early chapters summarize presupposed facts, identify important themes, and establish the notation used throughout the book. Subsequent chapters explore the normal and arithmetical structures of groups as well as applications.Topics include the normal structure of groups: subgroups; homomorphisms and quotients; series; direct products and the structure of finitely ...