Recounts a variety of uncanny incidents fron Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and Canada, including the Australian ghost who is honored with a festival, the story of the disappearing hitchhiker, and the experiences of Liv Ullmann and Sir Ernes
When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe. Population concerns, sexuality, venereal disease, and contraceptive use had entered public discussion, and Sanger's birth control message found receptive audiences around the world. This volume focuses on Sanger from her groundbreaking overseas advocacy during the interwar years through her postwar role in creating the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The documents reconstruct Sanger's dramatic birth control advocacy tours through early 1920s Germany, Japan, and China in the midst of significant government and religious opposition to her ideas. They also trace her tireless efforts to build a global movement through international conferences and tours. Letters, journal entries, writings, and other records reveal Sanger's contentious dealings with other activists, her correspondence with the likes of Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sanger's own dramatic evolution from gritty grassroots activist to postwar power broker and diplomat. A powerful documentary history of a transformative twentieth-century figure, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4 is a primer for the debates on individual choice, sex education, and planned parenthood that remain all-too-pertinent in our own time.
Presents the history and development of the mail service that delivered mail almost two thousand miles across the United States in less than ten days on horseback during the nineteenth century.
A poetic but scientific account, in harmony with religion, of the creation of the universe and its destruction is presented in the form of 1024 rhyming couplets. The creation is described from a point source, and the destruction is based upon the ultimate decay of matter and its building blocks such as neutrons and quarks. Historically there has been an unwritten separation between science and poetry. Scientists seldom write serious poetry in any significant quantity. Similarly poets rarely write a poetic account of any significant proportion that is based upon a scientific theory. A new foundation has been laid - writing poetry while seriously entertaining scientific theories of our era, and above all doing it in a journey of reverence in complete harmony with religious descriptions. The subject chosen could not have been more difficult -- evolution of 'Time' itself.
Boo! 84 tales, terrifying and true, will send shivers down your spine, make your knees knock, and stand your hair on end. Violent ghosts, lost souls, and strange specters all wander spookily through these stories--and the creepy illustrations heighten the horror. Read a bone-chilling account of a night in a haunted house, and of a ghost who scared a dog to death. What would you do if a spirit kept messing things up after you, stealing clothes and food, and trying to wrap you in its arms? And one museum in Toronto appears to have more on the grounds than just fine art! Fly through time with a pilot who saw into the future --and foretold tragedy. Watch with astonishment as poltergeists wreak havoc, tapping and banging, turning lights on and off, and throwing over furniture. Meet a doll you won't want to play with, and a demonic hairdresser who'll really give you a bad hair day! The spirit of one sad boy, though, wanted only to see justice done. Many first-hand accounts tell of ghost ships, runaway trains, and phantom planes. Could they be true? Engineer J.M. Pinkney thought so. During a train voyage in 1892 he watched horrified as a fast-moving locomotive headed directly for his train. Pinkney didn't believe his friends when they claimed that the "daredevil driver" was a dead man, until he learned that the train had arrived safely at the station--without any driver. Don't let the icy grip of fear grow too tight--if you can help it! Sterling 352 pages, 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.
Describes the ways of life of the varied peoples who live along China's great Yellow River and the efforts of these people to tame this river that is sometimes friend and sometimes foe.
Introduces the physical characteristics and habits of the giant panda, describing its role in the ecology of its natural environment in China and its past and present relationship to its human neighbors.
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