Jacob: 2030 books

Slauerhoff’s The Forbidden Kingdom is a blend of historical chronicle, fiction and commentary, bringing together the seemingly unrelated lives of a twentieth century ship’s radio operator and the sixteenth century Portuguese poet-in-exile, Luis Camoes. Slauerhoff draws his reader into a dazzling...

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...

Lovelorn Loveworn Love Lost Perplexed Prince Dolph, Xanth's precocious shapeshifter, should be in love but isn't. Nonetheless, he must chose between two fiancées -- Nada the uninterested and Electra the uninteresting -- or all three of them will suffer the most dire consequences. Luckily a convenient...

Youth is Wasted on the Young Being grown up is a drag . . . or so thinks Lacuna, one of the michievous Castle Zombie twins. So she makes the Good Magician Grey an an offer he can't refuse. Thirsty for a taste of the Elixir of Youth, she'll help him outwit the evil Com-Pewter if he'll send her to Hell...

We See England, We See Xanth, We See Mels's Underpanth In fact, Gwenny Goblin, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf are just about the only creatures on Xanth who have been spared the sight of Mela Merwoman's undergarment -- preoccupied as they are with helping Gwenny beat out her awful half-brother Gobble for...

The Panasonic DMC-FZ1000 is a camera from a trusted company. The camera has many features that allow the user to experience taking pictures in different settings depending on the expected outcome. The camera allows the user to control the shutter speed, aperture value, ISO sensitivity and other functions...

The latest Nikon innovation comes in the form of the Nikon DF camera. Reviews purport that the design mirrors the older and more traditional look of cameras and satisfies the need of the more conventional photographers. It also offers novel features and as such is able to also satisfy the needs of...

The S6 has been named as Samsung’s most powerful smartphone ever. Samsung also boasts that the phone has the best display and camera capabilities in the market. The S6 includes significant enhancements compared to its S5 predecessor and is overall a stylish and powerful phone to have. Partnerships...

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, a new device has surfaced. This device is known as ‘Sony Alpha A3000’. This digital device is one of Sony’s first E-mount cameras to have been designed with an SLR- style factor. Sony’s creation was manufactured to offer technologies greatest customer...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. CHAPTER I. OPEN THOUGHT THE FIRST STEP TO INTELLIGENCE CHAPTER II. THE QUESTION STATED CHAPTER III. THE FIRST STAGE OF FREE THOUGHT: ITS NATURE AND LIMITATION CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND STAGE OF FREE THOUGHT: ENTERPRISE CHAPTER...

The events, more than half of which are newly narrated in this ‘History,’ are recited from recollection. It is not pretended that all the conversations took place with the brevity with which they are given here. In the lapse of eight years there is much which I must have forgotten; but what I have...

In August of 2014 the Fujifilm Corporation released the X30 camera. Considered to be the replacement for the X20 released earlier in the year, the X30 is believed to be an impressive improvement to its predecessor. The improved device boasts an improved battery life and the largest revolving viewfinder...

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Challenging the stereotype that black people who lived under South African apartheid have no happy memories of the past, this examination into nostalgia carves out a path away from the archetypical musings. Even though apartheid itself had no virtue, the author, himself a young black man who spent...