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Vegans, vegetarians and peanut lovers, gather around! This book will amaze you. Agricultural scientist George W. Carver reveals more value to peanuts than anyone had ever thought existed. First he shows how to grow, harvest, and properly fertilize peanuts. Then he explains their effect on soil and how to ready them for the market. And then he goes on to present 105 recipes for peanuts. There's everything from peanut soup, cake and bread, to cakes, wafers and muffins. And there's a section dedicated to making mock meat, like chicken, veal, and sausages, using peanuts and other vegetables. Vegetarians will especially love this one. In this small and insightful book, Carver reveals nutritious facts about peanuts, and devises a healthy, satisfying, and economic diet with peanut as its main ingredient. "Of all the money crops ... perhaps there are none more promising than the peanut in its several varieties and their almost limitless possibilities."

Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire, and he is known for his military victories, for his contribution to Stoic philosophy, and for his diary. This is that diary, which was published after his death, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.Aurelius offers a logical yet insightful approach to topics such as mortality, how to cultivate internal peace and strength, and the importance of focusing on your decisions and not the actions of others, as well as other personal issues that are familiar to us all.The introduction offers a background of the Emperor's life and provides an insight into a man who is torn in two directions. Aurelius is described as "a sovereign whose conscience draws him in one direction, while fortune drives him to tread the opposite path." It is from this point of internal struggle that Aurelius writes, so as to gain a better sense of himself. And with him the reader is able to explore their own life, desire, and spirituality.

Learn about the science that revolutionized 20th century medicine from the founder himself!Andrew Taylor Still liberated his practice from traditional, then futile, medicine. Having prescribed drugs for years and found them of more harm than benefit, he resorted to engineering principles and treated the human body as one magnificent machine, founding the science of osteopathy and the first school of osteopathic medicine in the world."Osteopathy is the natural way by which all the diseases can be relieved." Writes Still, explaining that restoring natural blood flow through manipulation of muscle tissue and bone is the only remedy the body needs. His theories are supported by evidence from his personal experience."I will give no undemonstrable theory."Whether you're a medical student, practitioner, or nurse who wants to have unconventional tricks up their sleeve to relieve their patients, a history student studying the development of medical practice, or a curious reader who's passionate to know about 20th century pioneering methods in medicine, this book is all you need to understand the basics of osteopathy, and you don't need to be familiar with medical terminology."I have written as far as possible in the plainest language."

Mrs. Elliott presents over 900 authentic recipes from the American South.She has everything from a steaming hot chicken-cream soup, through juicy beef steak and crunchy roasted potatoes, to baking home-made fresh bread and cake! These pages are perfect for those looking for traditional kitchen wisdom, and remain just as relevant today. Their brevity will surprise those used to getting a life story for each recipe, but will reward inspiration seekers.Although it focuses primarily on cooking, it also includes tips on cleanliness and how to utilize your appliance and kitchen utensils and prolong their lifetime."You will find not only economy of time by attending to these rules, but a great saving in their use."Mrs. Elliott even teaches you how to set the table and atmosphere of the room to enjoy a meal to the fullest."Within the reach of all there is a style in which the millionaire's wife in her gilded walls cannot surpass the wife of the peasant in her humble dome."Make Mrs. Elliott your kitchen companion and learn that famous Southern Hospitality today.

This book shakes the core of your beliefs on health and diet, but only if you're open-minded enough to comprehend it.Henry Stephens Salt, considered to be the "father of animal rights" and one of the first to write in favour of Vegetarianism, structures a sound argument against flesh-eating in this short and insightful read.He tackles the subject from economic, moral, and medical perspectives, claiming that we're driven to eat meat by forces of tradition and a lucrative industry. Now that the world is witnessing more vegetarians than ever before, it's quite telling to read what Salt had to say about it over a century ago, when Vegetarianism was considered by many to be nothing more than sheer madness. "It can do no harm to my readers if they hear what can be said in favour of Vegetarianism; then, if they are not persuaded to adopt a fleshless diet, they will have a clear conscience, and be able to enjoy their beef and mutton all the more afterwards.""It is a mournful fact that when people have no wish to understand a thing, they can generally contrive to misunderstand it.""I believe that future and wiser generations will look back with amazement on the habit of flesh-eating as a strange relic of ignorance and barbarism."

This book changes your views on history, civilization, and the world.German philosopher and polymath Oswald Spengler displays his controversial opinions about world history. He defines "culture" as a superorganism which has a lifespan of birth, flourishing, and death, and defines "civilization" as the end-product of culture.He divides the entire history of the world into eight distinct cultures, from which all civilizations, religions, and wars arose. Spengler was criticized for his cataclysmic prediction of the downfall of western civilization in the twenty first century, yet it's shocking to see markers for this prediction in everyday news.He claims that democracy is but the political weapon of money, and that media is the means through which money operates a democratic political system. According to him, the penetration of money's power through a society is one of many signs of the shift from "culture" to "civilization".After reading this, you'll be more learned in history, philosophy, science, mathematics, architecture, music, art, literature, and even Greek and Latin. "When the first volume of The Decline of the West appeared in Germany a few years ago, thousands of copies were sold. Cultivated European discourse quickly became Spengler-saturated. Spenglerism spurted from the pens of countless disciples. It was imperative to read Spengler, to sympathize or revolt. It still remains so.""When Oswald Spengler speaks, many a Western Worldling stops to listen."~New York Times

Jane Austen's timeless romance consistently appears on top of "most loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public, and has been adapted into a 2005 movie starring Keira Knightley. "Like all masterpieces of literature, it cannot be digested in one reading."Austen's level of realism in portraying her three-dimensional characters is unparalleled in English literature."Not even Dickens, who used to weep over the deaths of his characters, was more intimate with the creations of his brain than the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' was with hers."Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet, whose character develops through repercussions of hasty judgements, and who comes to appreciate the difference between superficial and actual goodness.It advocates marriage for love and not for wealth or social status, in spite of communal and familial pressure."Jane Austen's characters are human beings in flesh and blood.""A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.""I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."~Jane Austen