Thomas Watson: 93 books

"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly digest of carefully selected Puritan works which have been gently modernised to render the text more readable, while still retaining much of the flavour and character of the original text. Helpful notes and Scripture references (in the English Standard...

Writing fiction of any length is a journey through unexplored territory, with the intention of leaving a trail behind for others to follow. In these short essays, one writer shares his view of such journeys, and how it feels to take them. It's a quick look inside one writer's way of working, and of...

In his book Mr. Olcott's Skies: An Old Book and a Youthful Obsession, author Thomas Watson explored the origins of his love for the night sky, and how after a nearly thirty year hiatus he returned to the pursuit of amateur astronomy. Tales of a Three-legged Newt is in part the rest of that story,...

A time-shared mind, a hunt for something that isn't what it seems, and an unfortunate stumble down memory lane. Three tales from sometime beyond the day after tomorrow. "Swept Away" – All Richard wanted to do was relax and read a book. Unfortunately, Avi is out and on his own on...

«Le due grandi grazie che sono essenziali ai santi per questa vita sono la fede e il ravvedimento. Sono questa le due ali con le quali possiamo volare verso il cielo! La fede e il ravvedimento preservano la vita spirituale come il calore e l'umidità rendono abitabile il nostro mondo» (T. Watson). In...

The Godly Man's Picture, Drawn with a Scripture Pencil, or, Some Characteristic Marks of a Man who is Going to Heaven. The soul being so precious, and salvation so glorious—it is the highest point of prudence to make preparations for the eternal world. It is beyond all dispute, that there is an...

A passion for star-gazing often starts in a modest way, with a small telescope. For some, that modest beginning becomes a theme that resonates through a lifetime. Mr. Olcott’s Skies is the story of one such beginning, and of how a small telescope and an old book set the author on a long and often...

This Sermon of Christ on the Mount is a piece of spiritual needlework, wrought about with divers colours; here is both usefulness and sweetness. In this portion of Holy Scripture you have a breviary of religion, the Bible epitomised. Here is a garden of delight, set with curious knots, where you may...

A classic English Puritan exposition of Matthew 5:1-12.

His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1:2 The opening of the Words, and the Proposition asserted. Grace breeds delight in God, and delight breeds meditation. Meditation is a duty wherein consists the essentials of religion, and which nourishes...

Look over your shoulder, but don’t turn around. Here at the edge of reality, things may not be as they appear. “A Friend of Kim’s” – A real friendship can have a special sort of power. Real is relative. “Crossing The Pond” – Old friends arrive at Walden Pond and meet...

In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united...

This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...

Civil forfeiture: the government’s ability to seize, keep, and sell any property of any person they believe is involved in a crime…even if that person is innocent. All it takes is for an officer of the law to ‘think’ the items were obtained through criminal means. The person is presumed guilty...