26 Great eBooks (eBook Compilation) See Description For Details

a couple descriptions may be left out on a few of these,only because i may be going out and i wanted to get this up b4 i left.enjoy

(I THINK I AM STARTING TO SHAPESHIFT INTO A E-BOOK)

material included:

1. Passport to Magonia: On UFOs,Folklore,and Parallel Worlds

Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Vallee wrote a provocative book about alleged UFO landings, folklore, and certain unexplained phenomena. That long-out-of-print book--which discussed the most interesting reports of more than 1,000 apparently reliable witnessess--has become an underground classic and is now being reissued.

" To a certain extent, this is a shocking book,
and it should be."
--from the Preface

French ufologist Jacques Vallee's 1969 book did shock a lot of people.
UFO believers were already familiar with Vallee. As one of the few scientists who had written detailed and careful analyses of UFO sightings that indicated that the witnesses were neither mistaken nor lying, he was seen as a valuable asset for their position. They looked forward to more of the same in his latest book.

What they got was something quite different. As Vallee himself said in the preface, Passport to Magonia was not a scientific book. In reading older books, Vallee had noticed a curious correspondence between stories that were hundreds of years old and those he was investigating in the late 1960s.

2. Fishes, Flowers and Fire

ishes, Flowers, & Fire as elements and deities in the phallic faiths & worship of the ancient religions of Greece, Babylon, Rome, India &c. With illustrative myths and legends. (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 5)

3. Easy Journey to Other Planets - by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

A classic on the subject of astral travel by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Preface A living being, especially civilized man, has a natural desire to live forever in happiness. This is quite natural because, in his original state, the living being is both eternal and joyful. However, in the present conditioned state of life, he is engaged in a struggle against recurring birth and death. Therefore he has attained neither happiness nor immortality. The latest desire man has developed is the desire to travel to other planets. This is also quite natural, because he has the constitutional right to go to any part of the material or spiritual skies.

4. Hartmann - Cosmology (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians) - by Franz Hartmann

Cosmology or Universal Scince -- Cabala -- Alchemy &c. &c. &c. (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians), butchered and mistranslated

COSMOLOGY OR Cabala. Universal Science. CONTAINING Alchemy. THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE, REGARDING GOD NATURE MAN, THE Macrocosm and Microcosm ETERNITY and TIME EXPLAINED ACCORDING TO THE RELIGION OF CHRIST BY MEANS OF THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. , COPIED AND TRANSLATED FROM AN OLD GERMAN MANUSCRIPT, AND PROVIDED WITH A DICT... (more)
COSMOLOGY OR Cabala. Universal Science. CONTAINING Alchemy. THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE, REGARDING GOD NATURE MAN, THE Macrocosm and Microcosm ETERNITY and TIME EXPLAINED ACCORDING TO THE RELIGION OF CHRIST BY MEANS OF THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. , COPIED AND TRANSLATED FROM AN OLD GERMAN MANUSCRIPT, AND PROVIDED WITH A DICTIONARY OF OCCULT TERMS BY FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D.

5. The Odin Brotherhood: A Non-Fiction Account of Contact with a Pagan Secret Society

This non-fiction book details the legends, rituals, and mysteries of the Odin Brotherhood, a pagan secret society. Members of the Odin Brotherhood, who are both men and women, follow the religion now called Odinism or Asatru.

6. The Revelations of an Elite Family Insider (2005)

A person by the moniker of Insider claimed he was from a ruling bloodline and gave the people a chance to ask everything they wanted and Insider would answer. At first it looks like another internet hoax, some lightweight questions were followed by lightweight answers, but then things started changing drastically. Anyone who understands dialectics knows that the answers Insider gave were designed to force/provoke others to ask questions which went to the core of the matter. First some questions are being asked by Insider like "Are you really living on the planet you think you are?" which made people react differently than before. The answers this person started giving to those following questions showed a deep, broad understanding of philosophy, history, metaphysics, religion, magic, politics, and more in a way which is very innovative, detailed and some answers are thought provoking to say the least. What amazes is that Insider answered these questions in a very short time span and if you keep in mind that the topics are diverse, some indepth and some epic answers showed up literally minutes apart, one must wonder how it was done. Copy/paste from internet? I checked intensively and the sentences Insider used cannot be found on internet. Like one person observed, this was way over the heads of the usual suspects. Some people started getting upset, others were drawn to it and this all lead to a dialogue where so much was revealed, including by the other posters that it can be studied for years to come. Sounds hard to believe? Read on

7. Fire and Ice The Brotherhood of Saturn OCRv1

The Mysteries of Germany's Most Secret Occult Order The hidden teachings and practices of German occultism have long held a strong fascination for the poet as well as the historian. The largest German secret lodge—the Fraternitas Saturni—revealed neither its membership, its inner teachings, nor its rites. Still the most active and important magical society in Germany today, the FS has been the object of speculation, suspicion, and suppression. It is only through a chance occurrence that the inner documents of this order were published in Germany.

8. MYSTERY OF THE AGES

God's granted UNDERSTANDING of life's deepest mysteries. Answers to the vast mysteries of life that remain unanswered and unexplained to the whole World. A MUST READ!!!

MYSTERY Did you ever ask yourself: “Who am I? What am I? Why am I?” You are a mystery. The world about you is a mystery. Now, you can understand! OF THE AGES HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG MYSTERY OF THE AGES MYSTERY Did you ever ask yourself: “Who am I? What am I? Why am I?” You are a mystery. The world about you is a mystery. Now, you can understand! OF THE AGES

9. America's War On Terrorism - Second Edition

At eleven o’clock, on the morning of September 11, the Bush adminstration had already announced that Al Qaeda was respon¬sible for the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon. This assertion was made prior to the conduct of an indepth police investigation. That same evening at 9:30 pm, a “War Cabinet” was formed integrated by a select number of top intelligence and military advi¬sors. And at 11:00 pm, at the end of that historic meeting at the White House, the “War on Terrorism” was officially launched. The decision was announced to wage war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in retribution for the 9/11 attacks. The following morning on September 12th, the news headlines indelibly pointed to “state sponsorship” of the 9/11 attacks. In chorus, the US media was calling for a military intervention against Afghanistan. Barely four weeks later, on the 7th of October, Afghanistan was bombed and invaded by US troops. Americans were led to believe that the decison to go to war had been taken on the spur of the moment, on the evening of September 11, in response to the attacks and their tragic consequences.

10. Water, The Shocking Truth

Next to oxygen, water is the most important substance in the body. The average adult body contains approximately 45 pints of water and excretes about 32 pints daily through perspiration, respiration, urine and defecation. The internal temperature of the body is controlled with water. The average body temperature is 98.6o Fahrenheit. If it rises above this temperature we become feverish. If it falls below, we are physically affected. Water makes up 92% of the blood in the body and nearly 98% of intestinal, gastric, saliva and pancreatic juices. Many people have a dehydrated appearance. Their skin looks parched, withered, dry and old. Look at the dry and withered hands of many people. Look at the wrinkles on their foreheads and around their eyes. See how a curtain of dry flesh hangs over their eyes. Such people seem to squint out of little eye slits to see. Many people are chronically constipated, another sign of dehydration. Many people suffer from burning, irritating urination, which is also a sign of water starvation. Inorganic Salt is a Health Wrecker Another side of water imbalance is due to the excess use of inorganic salt and salty foods, which leads to the waterlogged human. You see young children 7 to 10 or more years old who are so waterlogged that they look grotesque. Some of these children have bloated and middle aged-looking bodies. Just compare them to the adults with their bloated and puffed-up faces, arms, bellies, legs, ankles and feet. The amount of water a body needs depends on temperature, climate, one's activities and general health. When you drink a glass of water it goes directly to your stomach. Part of the water is absorbed directly into your bloodstream through the walls of your stomach. The remainder goes to your intestines to keep the food you eat in a liquid state while it is being absorbed; this water is later absorbed directly into the blood. Drinking the right kind of water is one of your best natural protections against all kinds of virus infections, such as influenza, pneumonia, whooping cough, measles and other infectious diseases. Doctors advise bed-rest and plenty of water for the flu. When the body tissues and cells are kept well supplied with the correct amount of water, they can fight off viral attacks. If the body's cells are water-starved, they become parched, dry and shrivel, making it easy for viruses to attack. Always bear in mind the important functions of the right kind of water in your body. Water is a vital component of all body fluids, tissues, cells, lymph, blood and glandular secretions. Water holds all nutritive factors in solution and acts as a transportation medium to the various parts of the body for these substances. The mucous membranes need plenty of water to keep them soft and free from friction on their delicate surfaces. Liquid is necessary for the proper digestion of food. The stomach acts as a powerful churn to break down food into small particles. Water Flushes Toxins Out of the Body One of the most important functions of water is to flush the toxins and salt from the body. Unfortunately, people the world over use large amounts of salt. From centuries ago to the present day, there have been countries that have never known what salt is and whose people were still healthy and happy. The Japanese are known to be the world's highest consumers of table or inorganic salt (sodium chloride). A Japanese farmer who lives to be 60 years of age eats approximately 2 ounces of salt every day of his life and filters through his kidneys 2,737.5 pounds or 1.36 tons of salt in his lifetime! Americans are not far behind the Japanese in the consumption of salt. Not only do Americans add plenty of salt to their foods, they also eat large amounts of salty foods including ham, bacon, hot dogs, luncheon meats, corned beef, potato chips, salted nuts and many other foods with high concentrations of salt. No wonder heart disease is the # 1 killer in America!

11. The Flouride deception

Flouride is a definite weapon used to attack the human brain.. It is a very toxic material that the we as cattle willingly apply to our teeth and our bodies.. Even worse is the reality that our water is treated with this menace , and we accept it, even though we are suffering from its effect on our minds... THe worse part is that parents believe that infants require water that is flouridated in addition to the flouride that is already contaminating our households... Food with water, dental products and even more contain this menace no one can see how it is a driver in the bad health conditions of Americans... Flouride is so microscopic that it passess through filtration and even can withstand distillation in small amounts... THe best plan is to drink distilled water that is also filtered for flouride and arsenic... Try a BERKEY system w/ PF-2 or steam distilled water to at least insure your are not being chemically poisoned due to our own ignorance and criminal conspiracy by our government... EVERYONE NEEDS WATER and a formidable enemy is swimming in every glas of it we consume... Drink up America

12. America - Slipping into Fascism - 2008

Have you ever wanted to follow up on a conversation you had with someone about the economy, the New World Order or the North American Union? This emailable magazine is a collection of non-mainstream news articles, books, podcasts and free documentaries featuring clickable links to programs online. You can find informative books, and websites featuring alternative news websites, storable food and other survival resources. Download and share this important emailable document with friends and family so they will take steps to participate in our government while they can make a difference. Features artwork by David Dees.

13. The Power Elite - New Edition - by C. Wright Mills

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills captivated readers with his penetrating analysis and fiery critique of the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. But while The Power Elite can be read ... (more)
First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills captivated readers with his penetrating analysis and fiery critique of the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. But while The Power Elite can be read as an accurate account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory is every bit as significant

14. Demanding the Impossible - History of Anarchism - by Peter Marshall 2008

There are many books on the subject of anarchist theory and history, this is easily the most comprehensive and extensive. From Taoist monks through the French revolution, to the new left of the 60's and punks of the 70's.

Every era of history and every prominent figure of anarchism is here (even if they didn't describe themselves as anarchist). The subject is so broad ranging, that this book stands as a great history book, as well as a philosophical work. Keeping alive an idea that has never been allowed, but will never go away.

An excellent book for anybody interested in politics; history; philosophy; psychology and human beings in general.

15. The Shock Doctrine

16. Ancient Astrology - by Roger Beck

17. Sacred Texts - The Internet Book of Shadows

18. Be Wise as Serpents

BE Wise as Serpents is the history of the systematic destruction of Christianity and the building of a 1-world-religion. As you read this research based on a. co
nfidential interviews with participants within in the conspiracy, b. interviews of unwitting participants within the conspiracy, c. and historical documentation you will discover that there is great evidence for a history we have not been told, and a great struggle before mankind as the one-world-power/religion comes into focus.

19. The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol (Material Cultures) - by Malcolm Quinn 1994

The Swasitika is the first substantial work specifically on the swastika as an emblem. While it is difficult to disconnect the swastika from its use by the Nazis, the emblem is a much older symbol with deep roots in mythical Aryan tradition. In this book, Malcom Quinn describes the historical and mythical significance of the emblem, and shows how the Nazis used this significance to construct a political symbol, enhancing its symbolic meanings, and encrusting it with new ones. In this way the Nazis latched on to an image with great inherent power.

20. History of the Medieval Church, 590-1500 - by Margar Deanesly 1990

'A marvellous work of compression in which both clarity and readability are maintained.' - Scottish Journal of Theology

'A tour de force ... packed with information, sagacious in treatment, accurate and unprejudiced in its presentation of the facts.' - Times Literary Supplement

A marvellous work of compression in which both clarity and readability are maintained. - Scottish Journal of Theology

A tour de force ... packed with information, sagacious in treatment, accurate and unprejudiced in its presentation of the facts. - Times Literary Supplement

Product Description
Written by the distinguished medieval historian Professor Deanesly, this classic history of the church from the accession of Gregory the Great to the Reformation: * emphasizes the social and personal aspects of church history * examines the medieval attitude towards life, religion and the church * shows how the medieval church system and structure worked * includes helpful timeline and lists of popes, archbishops, kings and emperors

21. A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century - by by Fariba Zarinebaf 2005

Published as part of Hesperia Supplement Series, this book represents an innovative collaborative approach to the study of a particular region of the Ottoman empire, the southwestern Peloponnese (or Morea), Greece. It combines the study of unpublished Ottoman documents, other historical sources, and the results of diachronic archaeological fieldwork in an examination of the historical and economic geography of the Morea in the early 18th century, the period immediately following the Ottoman reconquest of this region from Venice.

Central to the book is a translation of the section of an Ottoman cadastral survey (defter) listing in great detail properties in the district (kaza) of Anavarin (Navarino, modern Pylos). An introductory chapter outlines the history and methodology of the research project, while the translation is followed by chapters that provide a broader context, drawing on dozens of unpublished Ottoman documents and other sources for the analysis of the information contained in the document and the principles behind its composition. A final chapter summarizes the conclusions drawn from the research, and a series of appendixes offer additional detail, including concordances of the personal- and place-names, an index of properties described, narrative histories of the two fortresses in the region, and a new English translation of the Anavarin section of the 17th-century Turkish traveler Evliya Celebi's Seyahatname (Travel Book).

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Transliteration and Pronunciation
Glossary of Terms

Introduction OTTOMAN STUDIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN GREECE

Chapter 1 SOLDIERS INTO TAX-FARMERS AND REAYA INTO SHARECROPPERS: THE OTTOMAN MOREA IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Chapter 2 TRANSLATIONS OF Two OTTOMAN DOCUMENTS DESCRIBING THE STATE OF THE MOREA AND ANAVARIN IN 1716

Chapter 3 A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HUMAN LANDSCAPE OF THE KAZA OF ANAVARiN

Chapter 4 AN ANALYSIS OF THE OTTOMAN CADASTRAL SURVEY OF ANAVARIN, 1716

Chapter 5 CONCLUSIONS

Appendix I EVLiYA ELEBI'S ACCOUNT OF ANAVARIN
Appendix II THE FORTRESS OF ANAVARIN-i ATIK
Appendix III THE FORTRESS OF ANAVARIN-i CEDID
Appendix IV CONSTRUCTION OF THE OTTOMAN CASTLE OF ANAVARIN-i CEDID

Concordance I NAMES OF THE REAYA IN TT880
Concordance II NAMES OF MUSLIMS IN THE FORTRESS OF ANAVARiN-i CEDID IN TT880
Concordance III TOPONYMS IN TT880
Concordance IV PROPERTIES LISTED IN TT880

References
Index

22. Constantine, the Last Emperor of the Greeks; or, The Conquest of Constantinople by the Turks (A.D. 1453) by Chedomil Mijatovich facsimile reprint of 1892

After the latest historical researches of his time in 1892, and drawing upon all existing materials, albeit within the strict confines of his cultural and political standpoint, Mijatovich describes the incidents and consequences of the era-changing events of 1453 in regards to the conquest of Constantinople, the hitherto capital of Christian civilization.

The German Emperor Frederic III. in a letter written June 1453 to Pope Nicholas V., lamenting greatly the catastrophe on the Bosphorus, calls Constantinople "the capital of the Eastern Empire, the head of Greece, the home of arts and literature" (" Orientalis imperii sedem, Graeciae caput .... veluti domicilium litterarum artiumque"). And indeed, from the time of Constantino the Great to the time when the dawn of Kenaissance aroused Italy to her noble task, Constantinople was the capital of Christian civilization. Its place in the history of the world has been always a most remarkable one, - Rome being the only city which can successfully bear comparison with it.

When in 1453 it passed into the hands of Mohammed El-Fathi its possession consolidated at once the new Mohammedan Empire, and enabled the Sultans of the Ottoman Turks to extend their sway up to the blue Carpathians in the north-west and to the Gulf of Persia in the south-east. There seems almost a miraculous telepathic influence in that place, an influence which inspires its occupants, as long as they possess some power, with an irresistible ambition to rule over three worlds, and which enables old and exhausted Empires to live longer than the most flattering prophecies ever thought probable or possible.

There are theories which assert that the possession of Constantinople enervates, disorganizes, and in the end kills. So far as I have been able to read history, I have found that he who takes Constantinople, once securely seated on the Bosphorus, unavoidably feels that his power is strengthened for a higher task, that his political horizon has widened to the misty limits of an Universal Empire, and that it is the manifest destiny of Constantinople to be the capital, if not of an universal, then at least of a great Empire, stretching over Europe, Asia, and Africa. And I would even say that it seems to me that neither the Byzantine nor the Ottoman Empires could have withstood so long the consequences of disorganization if their capital had not been Constantinople.

It is somewhat singular that, notwithstanding the undoubted interest which European nations in general, and the British in particular, feel in everything connected with Constantinople, the great catastrophe of 1453, so tragic in its incidents and so terrible in its consequences, has never yet been fully and thoroughly worked out and placed before the readers of history. I do not flatter myself for a moment that I shall be able to do what others have not done. I wish only to state, as an undeniable fact, that up to the present no work on, and no description of, the conquest of Constantinople has used all the materials which exist in our time.

Gibbon wrote his incomparably graphic description (vol. iii. 702-730), using only the Byzantine historians, Phrantzes, Ducas, and Chalcochondylas, and the letter addressed to the Pope Nicholas V. by the Archbishop Leonardo of Chios. The famous historian of the Ottoman Empire, Joseph von Hammer, looked to the same sources of information, adding some scanty notes from the Turkish historian Sa'ad-ud-din.

J. W Zinkeisen, in his Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches (i. 833-866) was able to use letters and reports found in the Vatican Library. Mr S. Martin and Mr Brosset (Histoire du Bas Empire, par Lebeau) improved Mr Lebeau's description by details found in the poem of the Armenian Abraham, and in the so-called "Grusian Chronicle."

The Russian historian Mr Stassulevich, in his work Ossada i vzyatiye Vizantii Turhami (St Petersburg, 1854), used only the old Byzantine sources and the chronicle of Sa'ad-ud-din.

Mr Sreznyevsky published in 1855 an old Slavonic chronicle, Povyest o Tzaregradye, accompanying it with notes from Byzantine sources and from Leonardo of Chios.

Dr A. D. Mordtmann has given us one of the most interesting descriptions in his Belagerung und Eroberung Constantinopels durch die Türken im Jahre 1453, nach Original-Quellen bearbeitet (Stuttgart, 1858), using largely the Journal of Nicolo Barbaro.

Professor Dr Y. U. Krause (Die Eroberungen von Constantinopel in XIII und XV Jahrhundert nach Byzantinischen, Frankischen und Türkischen Quellen und Berichten, Halle, 1870) drew principally from Byzantine authors, reprinting some portions from Sa'ad-ud-din, and taking some incidents from the poem of a Greek eye-witness.

Rev. W. J. Broadribb and Mr Walter Besant (Constantinople, a Sketch of its History from its Foundation to its Conquest by the Turks in 1453, London, 1879) followed Mordtmann and Krause, but consulted also independently Byzantine authors, and added some interesting information on the condition of Constantinople, given by the French knight Bertrandon de la Brocquiere.

The latest monograph that appeared in Western literature is that one written by Mr E. A. Vlasto (Les derniers jours de Constantinople, Paris, 1883). The author has mainly reproduced the general results of the researches of modern Greek historians, and especially those of Mr C. Paparrigopoulo ; but his able work leaves you the impression of being more a political dissertation than a historical picture of the catastrophe.
It is rather singular that there should not exist a single monograph on the Conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in English, though as early as in 1675 a tragedy entitled The Siege of Constantinople was published in London.

I believe that, by carefully comparing the statements of eye-witnesses and contemporaries of the siege, as well as the letters and documents of the time, preserved in the Italian and other archives it would be possible to give a tolerably complete and reliable account of one of the most stirring and important events of history. In the chapters which follow I shall give the result of my attempt in that direction.

I venture to hope that at the present time, when an uncomfortable feeling that Constantinople may soon again change masters pervades the world, political as well as military men will find this little work worthy of perusal, at least for the sake of the great subject of which it treats.

Chedomil Mijatovich.

Kensington, January 1892.

23. Himmler's Black Order 1923-45 By Robin Lumsden 1998

The popular mythology of the SS has a clouded story which is so complicated as to almost defy belief: a tale of intrigue and nepotism, of archaeology and Teutonism, of art and symbolism. The story of Himmler's Black Order is one of an organization led by a man motivated by the belief that he was the spiritual reincarnation of the Saxon King Heinrich I, founder of the German Reich. It is the story of street fighters and convicted criminals becoming Ministers of State and police commanders; the story of charitable works and mass extermination being administered from the same building; the story of boy generals directing vast heterogeneous armies on devastating campaigns of conquest. Here fact is stranger than fiction. This book covers in detail the origins, development and organization of both the Waffen-SS and the Allemeine-SS. The latter has been sorely neglected in post-war literature, yet it was the real body of the SS from which the more famous branches grew.! The wide-ranging effects which the SS had on the police, racial policies, German history, education, the economy and public life are all described. Sections are also devoted to uniforms and regalia which were carefully designed to set Himmler's men apart as a new elite in Third Reich society. The SS at war is considered, and a balance struck between the substantial battlefield achievements of the Waffen-SS and the atrocities of SS and police forces in the occupied territories. The little-known story of the Germanic-SS, staffed by foreigners in Western Europe, is also related.

24. Virtual Apprentice - Oceanographer - by Don Rauf and Monique Vescia 2008

Oceanography is the scientific study and exploration of the global ocean in all its aspects. This “young” science has developed fairly late in human history (compared to medicine or mathematics, for instance). In fact, more people have traveled into outer space than into the deep ocean. The most exciting discoveries in oceanography are yet to come.
“Virtual Apprentice: Oceanographer” immerses you in the most mysterious environment on Earth. Join the scientists who explore this vast and largely unexplored frontier, whether from the deck of a research vessel or a computer lab on dry land.
Travel down into the deepest trench on the ocean floor and visit ghostly shipwrecks and weird “black smokers” towering above the seabed. Meet bizarre creatures that have adapted for life in different marine environments. Jump into the Virtual Apprentice experience for a day full of oceanographic challenges.
Discover how some oceanographers are trying to protect the ocean’s food supply while others are seeking alternative energy sources beneath the waves. Find out about the biggest challenges facing oceanographers in the coming decades, and learn what you can do to help preserve the oceans that sustain all life on Planet Earth.

25. The Moon Is Down (World War II Historical Novel) by John Steinbeck 1995

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.

26. Aspartame Ecologist 2005