James Henry: 1258 books

Retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, is when there is retinal damage caused by genetic defects. The cells controlling that night vision, or rods, are damaged and so are the retinal cone cells. There can be dark deposits in the retina. This condition can also be known as rod-cone dystrophy, or progressive...

History is filled with incredible stories of the mountain men, experts in survival who relied on nothing except their own skills and ingenuity. If you want to learn to be one of them, then this is the book for you. Badass Survival Secrets will introduce you to everything that you need to be a modern...

Disaster can strike at any time with no warning. Most people aren’t forward thinking enough to prepare for the worst, others simply don’t have the skills needed to successfully prepare. That’s where the Badass Prepper’s Handbook comes in. Covering a wide variety of disaster scenarios with...

The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.

This little book, the last of a series of similar volumes each containing an exposition by a recognised authority of one of the many Religions the world has known, might have been put with as much propriety at the head of the series, there to show how Religion originated in the mind of man, what mental...

A fascinating view of the Crimean War from an aide to the controversial Stratford Canning, ambassador ambassador to the Ottoman empire. Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, KG, GCB, PC (1786-1880) was a British diplomat and politician, best known as the longtime British Ambassador...

First published in 1998, this volume focuses critically on the European identity of the law of the European Union, of national law and the law of human rights. It is primarily concerned with the ways in which European identity is created through the rejection of a malign Other constituted in opposition...

No Longer Bound is about the intersection of reading comprehension and interpretation that leads to the development of a powerful and transformative sermon. Reading facilitates the interpretive process, which is the essence of any sermon. The sermon is an interpretation of an interpretation and as...

(Short story.) An encounter in the woods between a young boy playing "soldiers" and his older brother's authoritarian friend.

Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book explores the competition between the food needs of a growing human population and the conservation of biodiversity as intensified by the emerging use...

This discussion of the search for religious truth addresses a universal view of religion that can be termed ‘philosophical mysticism’ from a rational basis of experience. Originally published in 1915, this is a classic of theological thinking that investigates the fundamental nature of religion and ‘perfect’ experience.

(Short story.) Bert and Liz live in a house they cannot leave. A rumpled paper bag on the coffee table is filled with slips of paper; when a slip is drawn, whatever is written on it soon appears in their little world. But words can have more than one meaning...

An Age of Wonders We live in an age of wonders. Great discoveries and startling events crowd upon us so fast that we have scarcely recovered from the bewildering effects of one before another comes, and we are thus kept in a constant whirl of excitement. The heavens are full of shooting stars, and while...

IN publishing this record of travel, I have deemed it advisable to arrange my narrative under four principal divisions. In the introductory portion I refer to the leading physical features of that part of the North Island of New Zealand known as the King Country, relate the leading incidents connected...