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Future Shock
by Alvin TofflerDescription of the world's response to change and how it affects our lives.
Getting a Feel for Lunar Craters
by David HurdThe text from a Braille, tactile book written for visually impaired people to feel what lunar craters are like.
Goliath
by David M. HarrisGoliath is the nation-state of America. But this book is really about what we must do to keep from being crushed by Goliath, and what we must build in place of it.
Hadley Course Catalog
by The Editors at the Hadley School for the BlindThe course catalog from the Hadley School for the Blind, detailing their tuition-free distance education programs. With more than 100 courses across four program areas, find the course that is right for you, and join the 10,000 individuals worldwide who call themselves Hadley students.
I and Thou
by Martin Buber Walter KaufmannThe classic work on philosophy and religion, with a wealth of footnotes to clarify obscurities.
Klingsor's Last Summer
by Hermann Hesse3 short stories by the famous author: A Child's Heart, Klein and Wagner, and Klingsor's Last Summer.
The Law of Love and the Law of Violence
by Leo TolstoyAn exploration of the teachings of Jesus Christ and thoughts of morality.
Little Brother
by Cory DoctorowMarcus, aka "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-- and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when, having skipped school, he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison, where they're mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state, where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. Can one teenage hacker fight back against a government out of control? Maybe, but only if he's really careful . . . and very, very smart.
The Man of Feeling
by Henry MackenzieHarley is the "Man of Feeling", He is a weak creature, dominated by a futile benevolence, who travels to London and falls into the hands of people who exploit his innocence. Harley helps the down-trodden, loses in love and is unsuccessful. Mackenzie asks the reader to decide whether sentimentality is morally correct or a luxury for the rich? Is morality possible in a complex commercial environment? The reader must decide for himself whether Harley is a saint or a fool.
Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks, and Covens
by Paul HusonThis book presents the first steps to becoming a witch or warlock; it answers all the basic questions about spells, magical recipes, rituals, divination, covens, curses, apparatus, how to develop one's powers, etc. From reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards, through all the rituals and magical practices, the author carefully explains the details of witchcraft, including the four great rules of magic, how to observe natural "Power Tides," how to use herbs and incenses, how to cast an evil eye, how to form a coven, etc.
Mencius
by Mencius D. C. LauMencius helped formulate a Confucian orthodoxy that helped China replace feudalism with a centralized government around 320 BC. This is part of the Four Books that make up the Confucian corpus.
Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity
by US Department of Health and Human ServicesA supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Cross-cultural comparisons of blacks, North American Indians, Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and whites.
Mr. Sammler's Planet
by Saul BellowMr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a “registrar of madness,” a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. “Sorry for all and sore at heart,” he observes how greater luxury and leisure have only led to more human suffering. To Mr. Sammler—who by the end of this ferociously unsentimental novel has found the compassionate consciousness necessary to bridge the gap between himself and his fellow beings—a good life is one in which a person does what is “required of him.” To know and to meet the “terms of the contract” was as true a life as one could live. At its heart, this novel is quintessential Bellow: moral, urbane, sublimely humane.<P><P> Winner of the National Book Award
Nathanael West: The Art of His Life
by Jay MartinNathanael West was one of America's most original writers. His novels, especially The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts, continue to be widely read and stand as a particularly American image of tragedy drawn from popular and democratic culture. The story of his life is as poignant and terrifying as anything in his novels. Jay Martin has written a biography that has bee praised as the last word on a mythic life. Martin successfully traces that certain inspiration, hard-going development, and inevitable demise of West's vision.
The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio
by Luigi Pirandello C. K. Scott MoncrieffSerafino is a typical Pirandellian anti-hero, a spectator rather than a participant in the tragi-comedy of human existence. Indeed he has the perfect job for it, that of a film cameraman. Serafino is an observer, an impersonal tool of a new industry based on make believe. All he has to do is to turn the handle of his camera and watch. He has no part in what is going on and is so removed from life that the mauling of an actor by a tiger can not deflect him from filming the action. It is set in Rome circa 1915, partly on a film lot, partly in the city.
The Old English Baron
by Clara ReeveClara Reeve (1729-1807), novelist, was the author of several novels, of which only one is remembered -- "The Old English Baron" (1777), written in imitation of, or rivalry with, the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, with which it has often been printed. Her novel has noticeably influenced Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Her innovative history of prose fiction, "The Progress of Romance" (1785), can be regarded generally as a precursor to modern histories of the novel and specifically as upholding the tradition of female literary history.
The Poky Little Puppy
by Janette Sebring LowreyFive little puppies dig a hole under a fence and go for a walk in the wide, wide world, but one of them is poky.
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
by Sheila Ostrander Lynn SchroederEncounters with Russia's scientifically tested psychics and their research in Soviet Russia, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia
The Runaway Bunny
by Margaret Wise BrownA bunny tells his mother he will run away in various ways and she explains how she will catch him no matter what he does.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One
by Robert Silverberg26 of the best sci-fi short stories ever written. These stories were selected by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Sing Down the Moon
by Scott O'DellThe Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring day, fourteen-year-old Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took their sheep to pasture. The sky was clear blue against the red buttes of the Canyon de Chelly, and the fields and orchards of the Navahos promised a rich harvest. Bright Morning was happy as she gazed across the beautiful valley that was the home of her tribe. She turned when Black Dog barked, and it was then that she saw the Spanish slavers riding straight toward her.
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
by George JacksonWhen he was 18, Jackson was sentenced from 1 year to life for stealing $70 from a gas station. His letters are an outpouring of grief, passion, outrage and defiance.