Set in the 1960s, this book explores the unique educational landscape of the era, devoid of modern technology like smartphones and the internet. It highlights the emergence of typewriters and Xerox machines as tools for creativity and mischief, while showcasing the clash between innovative educators and traditional administrators. Through humorous anecdotes and reflections, readers are invited to revisit a time filled with quirky characters and memorable moments, revealing that some experiences remain timelessly amusing.
Build your own moving race car from household objects in this step-by-step
guide based on the science behind Formula One.Take your place at the starting
gate and fire up your engine: it's time to build your very own racing car!
Join presenter and maker Fran Scott for a crash course in racing engineering,
then use your new-found skills to build your own awesome air-powered machine
using household objects. From the chassis to the engine, discover the science
behind Formula One in this perfect project for budding young engineers. So
what are you waiting for? 3, 2, 1 ... let's race!
The Aztec UFO Incident - the first ever widely publicized report of a recovered flying saucer - was derided as a hoax for decades. But now the Ramseys and Frank Thayer reveal the exact spot where the craft landed and show how the 100-foot diameter saucer was moved to a secret laboratory. Witnesses to the incident who were interviewed by the authors affirm that they were sworn to secrecy by the military. The authors also reveal the names of scientists who worked on the craft after its recovery. Also included are previously unseen documents from the CIA, FBI, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Army that constituted a cover-up whose sole purpose was to surround the Aztec story with a smokescreen of lies, misinformation, and destructive allegations. Roswell is no longer the only proven flying saucer recovery we know about. The Aztec UFO Incident is a must-read for historians and UFO students alike.
Literary Nonfiction. Written according to its own dictum, "language is the universal inebriant," these epistolary essays, personal narratives, meditations on avant- garde writers, and unorthodox forays into the "narco-imaginary" the habits and conventions surrounding literary and cultural representations of drug use attend to the residue of transient impressions that remain, long after the delirium of creative activity subsides."
Few mixtures are as toxic as absolute power and insanity. When nothing stands between a leader's delusional whims and seeing them carried out, all sorts of bizarre outcomes are possible. This book will look at the lives of the nine most mentally unbalanced figures in history. Some suffered from genetic disorders that led to schizophrenia, such as French King Charles VI, who thought he was made of glass. Others believed themselves to be God's representatives on earth and wrote religious writings that they guaranteed to the reader would get them into heaven, even if these leaders were barely literate. Whether it is Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I practicing archery on palace servants or Turkmenistan president-for-life Akhbar Turkmenbashi renaming the days of the week after himself and constructing an 80-foot-tall golden statue that revolves to face the sun, crazed leaders have plagued society for millenia. While such stories are amusing, this book also contemplates the addictive nature of power and the effects it has on those who cling to it for too long. It explores how leaders can undertake the extraordinarily complicated job of leading a country without their full mental faculties and sometimes manage to be moderately successful. It examines why society tolerates their actions for so long and even attempts to put a facade of normalcy on rulers, despite everyone knowing that they are mentally unstable. The book also explores if insane rulers are a relic of the age of monarchs and will die out in the age of democracy, or if they will continue to plague nations in the twenty-first century. Finally, as many armchair psychologists question the mental health of Donald Trump and other populist politicians in the United States and Europe, all but diagnosing them with mental illness, this book sets to show that truly insane rulers are categorically different in the ways they endanger their population
