At one stage of his long career, Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose undertook an examination of inorganic matter in the same way as a biologist examines a muscle or a nerve. He subjected metals to various kinds of stimulus—mechanical, thermal, chemical, and electrical. He found that all sorts of stimulus produce an excitatory change in them. This excitation sometimes expresses itself in a visible change of form, and sometimes not; but the disturbance produced by the stimulus always exhibits itself as an electric response.

“The Day of The Nefilim” is one of the best SF novels I have read since I began reading. Maybe that’s just because all of what I have read until now provided the knowledge and context to appreciate the depth of David’s work, which didn’t allow me to put it down until I finished it. Straight through, in one sitting. Yeah, that’s right, I did not put the book down until I finished reading it. Couldn’t. Well done David. Keep writing. Can’t wait to read your next book… You would make Robert Anton Wilson proud, and Douglas Adams smile.” — exiledsurfer on Manybooks.net

Originally published in 1917 under the title “1,000 Hints on Vegetable Gardening”, this book deserves a place on every vegetable gardener’s bookshelf. It is a valuable collection of common sense and the type of knowledge that can only come from experience.

Good health is an attractive state, but it can be a very dull topic. Everything depends on how it is
approached. Dr Wrench attracts our attention at once, by asking “Why not research health as well as disease?”

The Soul of the White Ant by Eugène Marais is a passionate, insightful account into the world of termites. It is a meticulously researched expose of their complex, highly structured community life. Originally translated into English in 1937, the quality of research remains as relevant today as it was when it was first published.

Recently we have seen a great back-to-the-land movement, with many young professional people returning to small scale farming; thus it is great fun to read about someone who did exactly the same thing in 1864. In that year, Mr. Edmund Morris gave up his business and city life for a farm of ten acres, made a go of mixed farming and then wrote a book about it.

The Blood and its Third Element is Béchamp’s explanation of his position, and his defense of it against Pasteur’s mischief. This final major work of Béchamp’s embodies the culmination of his life’s research. This book contains, in detail, the elements of the microzymian theory of the organization of living organisms and organic materials. It has immediate and far reaching relevance to the fields of immunology, bacteriology, and cellular biology.

This volume contains new editions of two books which have been available only sporadically in the decades since their publication — R.Pearson’s “Pasteur: Plagiarist, Imposter”, and Ethel Hume’s “Bechamp or Pasteur?”

The problem facing civilization today is rebuilding the soil and restoring the earth to a form usable for food production. Through the slow processes of nature, it takes 500 to 1,000 years to lay down an inch of topsoil. Under favorable conditions, a task-force of earthworms can do the same job in five years.