Originally published in 1911 by the Popular Mechanics, this book contains 16 complete projects, with illustrations of period style lamps, drawings with precise measurements, and detailed instructions on how to make them.

"Anyone with sufficient patience to avoid all hurry can, at home, at an almost negligible expenditure, produce a great variety of lamps, that will, nine times out of ten, be mistaken for the product of a professional rather than of an amateur. In this line of work, the results are invariably delightfully surprising."

Contents Covered:

• Introduction
• One-Light Portable Lamp
• Two-Light Portable Lamp
• Four-Light Chandelier
• Dining-Room Dome
• Reading Lamp
• Parlor or Den Lantern
• Lantern
• One-Light Portable
• Shade for Drop Light
• Four-Light, Chain-Hung Chandelier
• One-Light Bracket
• Piano Lamp
• Wall Lamp
• Newel Post Lamp
• Electric Candle Sconce
• One-Light Bracket Lamp

Originally published in the 1890s, this is an English translation of The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony by Basil Valentine, with a biographical preface.

Basil Valentine is the Anglicized version of the name Basilius Valentinus, who was a famous alchemist and monk of the Middle Ages.

Antimony in the form of its natural sulfide was known to the ancients and was used by them as cosmetic and medicine. The art of producing metallic antimony was well known by the 17th century. Basil Valentine described its preparation in his work "The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony", a key work studied by students in the art of Alchemy.

Contents Covered:

• Biographical Preface
• Dedication
• Dedicatory Epistle
• To the Reader
• The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony
• Appendix
• On the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, and the Nature of the Fire Stone
• Index

The Meaning of Adult Education by Eduard Lindeman is a timeless book on adult education or continuing education. It is a collection of essays regarding Lindeman's views on adult education, in which he investigates how adults learn, what motivates them to learn and how this learning can increase the quality of their lives and ultimately the society in which they live.

Written in 1926 it is amazing that so much of the content is still very relevant to adult education today, and on each page something can be found that is worthy of being quoted or saved to read another day. For example:

• "The whole of life is learning, therefore education can have no endings. This new venture is called adult education."
• "In conventional education the student is required to adjust himself to an established curriculum; in adult education the curriculum is built around the student's needs and interests."
• "The resource of highest value in adult education is the learner's experience. If education is life, then life is also education."
• "In teaching children it may be necessary to anticipate objective experience by uses of imagination but adult experience is already there waiting to be appropriated. Experience is the adult learner's living textbook."
• "The real distinction between educated and uneducated persons is not to be found in such superficial criteria as academic degrees, formal study or accumulation of facts; indeed, formal learning may, and often does, lead people into narrow scholarship and out of life."
• "Growth should be a process of integrating emotions with thought, an evolving capacity for feeling more deeply and thinking more clearly. Educative experience spans the whole of life."

This book is a "must read" for anyone associated with adult education!

Contents Covered:

• Foreword
• For Those Who Need to Be Learners
• To Those Who Have Faith in Intelligence
• With Respect to the Use of Power
• In View of the Need for Self-Expression
• For Those Who Require Freedom
• For Those Who Would Create
• To Those Who Appreciate
• To an Age of Specialism
• As Dynamic for Collective Enterprise
• In Terms of Method
• Postscript
• References
• Index

Originally published in 1920, The Children of Odin is a great collection of the Norse myths and legends retold by master storyteller Padraic Colum, in an easy-to-follow chronological order from the creation of the Worlds to Ragnarok.

This classic book is a fantastic gateway for children and young audience to learn the basics of Norse mythology.

Please note: This digital reprint is NOT a widely-available, e-Text version. Instead, it is a top-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1920, featuring many black-and-white drawings and 4 full-page color plates.

Contents Covered:

• Part 1: The Dwellers in Asgard
  • Far Away and Long Ago
  • The Building of the Wall
  • Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger
  • Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard
  • How Brock the Dwarf Brought Judgment on Loki
  • How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her
  • How Frey Won Gerda, the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword
  • Heimdall and Little Hnossa: How All Things Came to Be
  • The All-Father's Forebodings: How He Leaves Asgard
• Part 2: Odin the Wanderer
  • Odin Goes to Mimir's Well: His Sacrifice for Wisdom
  • Odin Faces an Evil Man
  • Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead
  • Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings
  • Thor and Loki in the Giants' City
  • How Thor and Loki Befooled Thrym the Giant
  • Ægir's Feast: How Thor Triumphed
  • The Dwarfs Hoard, and the Curse that It Brought
• Part 3: The Witch's Heart
  • Foreboding in Asgard
  • Loki the Betrayer
  • Loki against the Æsir
  • The Valkyrie
  • The Children of Loki
  • Baldur's Doom
  • Loki's Punishment
• Part 4: The Sword of the Volsungs and the Twilight of the Gods
  • Sigurd's Youth
  • The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir
  • The Dragon's Blood
  • The Story of Sigmund and Signy
  • The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli
  • The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli
  • Brynhild in the House of Flame
  • Sigurd at the House of the Nibelungs
  • How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar
  • The Death of Sigurd
  • The Twilight of the Gods

Originally published in the 1901, this little volume is the outcome of several years' experience in telling to classes of children the classic myths, both southern and northern. The insight and interest displayed by the children encourage the authors to hope that other teachers and pupils may enjoy the myths here reproduced.

"The interest shown at present in the teaching of myths to children seems to call for some such simple volume, giving the Norse myths in suitable form for use with pupils as well as for the children's home reading. There are various collections of the Greek tales, but the books dealing with the Norse myths seem to be more or less cumbered with detail, and, therefore, not adapted to very young readers."

"The experience of the authors satisfies them that the teaching of myths should begin with those of the North, and that the Greek tales should be given later, with comparisons and references to the Norse myths. The stories which were dear to our own northern forefathers stir our children more deeply and are more congenial to them than those which come down to us from the Greeks. This is perfectly reasonable. The graphic descriptions in the Norse tales of the hard struggle with rugged nature and the severe climate of the North naturally come home more closely to us than the less rigorous and sturdy conditions of the southern nations. Then, too, the moral tone of the Norse myths is higher, purer, and more steadfast than that of the Greek tales, and is more congenial to our Teutonic point of view."

Contents Covered:

• Preface
• The Story of the Beginning
• Odin's Reward
• Tyr and the Wolf
• Freyja's Necklace
• The Hammer of Thor
• Thor's Wonderful Journey
• How Thor Lost His Hammer
• A Gift from Frigga
• The Stealing of Iduna
• Skadi
• Baldur
• Ægir's Feast
• The Punishment of Loki
• The Twilight of the Gods
• Index of Names
• Key to Pronunciation

Originally published in 1917, The Tree of Life by Dr. George W. Carey is an expose of physical regenesis on the three-fold plane of bodily, chemical and spiritual operation.

Contents Covered:

• Introduction
• Wonders and Possibilities of the Human Body
• The Bridge of Life
• Optic Thalmus
• A Vision of Immortality

God-Man: The Word Made Flesh deals wholly with the physiology of the Scriptures, showing that the 66 books of the Holy Bible were 66 statements by 66 different writers about the same identical subject -- the human body, its chemical operation and the planetary positions, impinging to create and bring into physical manifestation the visible universe. These wonderful statements are fables, parables, allegories, dealing with the chemical, physiological, anatomical and astrological operations of the human body, "Fearfully and wonderfully made."

In this work the author reveals a connection between perfect health and the biochemical tissue salts (or cell salts). Read the book while keeping in mind Luke 8:11 - "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God."

Contents Covered:

• Redemption the Ultimate Goal of Humanity
• The Kingdom at Hand
• Books Rejected by the Council of Nicea
• Names
• The Marvelous Story of Joseph and Mary
• Man was Made Upright
• It: The Eternity of Perfection
• Sarah and Abraham
• The Word of God Revealed
• The Explanation of "Turning Water into Wine"
• John the Baptist -- Physiologically Explained
• The Pleagues of Egypt in the Human Body
• What Was the Word of God that Came to the Prophets?
• The Great Pyramid
• Isaiah
• The Optic Thalamus
• The Central or Single Eye
• Statement by a Greek Professor
• The Wives and Children of Jacob
• The Solar Plexus
• Prophecies Fulfilled
• Killing the Fatted Calf or Kaph
• The Anti-Christ
• The Rib-lah that Made the Womb in Man(kind)
• The Bridge of Life
• Sacred Books of the East
• The Mystery of Santa Claus Revealed
• The Science of Leap Year
• The Revelation of Hermes
• The Secret Doctrine
• Why Re-incarnate?
• The Lake of Fire and Brimstone
• Physical Regeneration
• Thirteen, the United States Seal and Woodrow Wilson
• Daniel in the Lion's Den
• Noah, the Ark and the Animals
• Mistranslation of Scripture
• Joshua Commanding the Sun and Moon to Stand Still
• Glossary
  • "As a Man Thinketh in His Heart so is He."
  • The Meaning of Glory.
  • The Tree of Life.
  • The Only Cause of Old Age.
  • Samson.
  • Twenty-second Chapter of Revelation, 1st and 2nd Verses.
  • Crucified Between Two Thieves.
  • "My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light."
  • Dormant Brain Cells.
  • Children.
  • Psalms of David.
  • He that Ruleth His Own House.
  • "And Enoch Walked With God and Was Not."
  • The Jewel in the Lotus.
  • The Kundalina Fire.
  • The Human Automobile.
  • The Pneumogastric Nerve (Tree) and the Holy Ghost.
  • The Son of Man.
  • "Ye Who Have Followed Me in the Regeneration."
  • "To Him that Overcometh."
• Consummation

Originally published in 1908, Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing is a course of 11 lessons on the psychic phenomena of distant sensing, clairvoyance, psychometry, crystal gazing, etc. This most interesting study is stated clearly, so that all may readily understand the fundamental principle of psychic communication. You will discover the art of psychic abilities including seeing through solid objects, diagnosis of hidden diseases, sensing the scenes of the past, foreseeing future events, and so much more.

About the author -- Excerpt from the Wikipedia:

William W. Atkinson was a very important and influential American figure in the early days of the New Thought Movement. He was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of New Thought.

Atkinson's 1906 book, Thought Vibration: The Law of Attraction in the Thought World, is associated with the thinking behind the phenomena surrounding the 2006 movie, The Secret, which gained widespread attention in the media from Saturday Night Live to The Oprah Winfrey Show in the United States.

Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought. From mental and physical wreck and financial ruin, he wrought perfect health, mental vigor and material prosperity, which he attributed to the application of the principles of New Thought.

Contents Covered:

• Lesson 1 -- The Nature of Psychomancy
  • Interesting, scientific principles underlying Psychomancy. Sensing objects by the Astral Senses. The three classes of Psychomancy. The phenomena of the Astral Vision. The Astral Tube. Projection of the Astral Body.
• Lesson 2 -- How to Develop Yourself
  • The Dawn of the Psychic Faculties. Auric Colors. Visions. Development Methods. Concentration. Visualization. Psychometry. The Magic Mirror. How to use the Crystal and Mirror. General Instruction.
• Lesson 3 -- Simple Psychomancy
  • Simple and Space Psychomancy and their differences. Sensitivity to Impressions. "Feeling" the Thought of Others. Seeing Through Solid Objects. Seeing Down Into the Earth. Telescopic and Microscopic Vision. Diagnosis of Disease by Psychomancy.
• Lesson 4 -- The Astral Tube
  • This most interesting study is stated clearly, so that all may readily understand this fundamental principle of Psychic Communication.
• Lesson 5 -- Psychometry
  • Locating persons by a lock of hair, etc. Reading a person's characteristics, past history, etc. Describing distant scenes from flowers, etc. Describing mines from bits of minerals, etc. Reading the past associations of an object.
• Lesson 6 -- Crystal Gazing
  • Revival of a Lost Science. Various forms of Crystal Gazing. Directions of "How to Do It," etc.
• Lesson 7 -- Astral Projection
  • Projecting the Astral Body. Materializing one's self. Taking part in Distant Scenes, Events and Conversations. Showing one's self to Absent Friends. What the trained experimenter may do. The English Society's reports upon Psychic Phenomena along these lines. The Living Ghost within each of us. Traveling in the Astral.
• Lesson 8 -- Space Psychomancy
  • What it means, and what may be accomplished by means of it. Swedenborg's, and others', wonderful experiences. Truth stranger than fiction. Scientific facts reading like a romance.
• Lesson 9 -- Past Time Psychomancy
  • Sensing the scenes, occurrences and objects of the Past, by Astral Vision. A most fascinating subject, and one of importance to those having or developing Psychic Power.
• Lesson 10 -- Future Time Psychomancy
  • Reading the Future. Future events cast their shadows before. Destiny and Fate. Premonitions, Previsions and Second Sight. The wonderful prevision and prediction of Cazotte, and its amusing sequel.
• Lesson 11 -- Dream Psychomancy
  • Psychomancy during sleep. The Phenomena of Psychic Dreams and Visions. Traveling in the Astral while asleep. Remarkable and well authenticated cases of Psychic Dreams and Visions, true and verified. This lesson will explain many similar instances in your own experience.

Originally published in 1908, Practical Mind-Reading is full of practical condensed instruction about every phase of Mind Reading, Telepathy, etc. The exercises and directions are so plain and simple that they can be understood and demonstrated by any person of ordinary intelligence.

Here you will find complete instruction in all the latest (as of the turn of the 20th century) points about Mind Reading. It tells how Thought Transference is practiced in the scientific laboratory as well as by a public performer. It tells you how to perform feats that will mystify an audience and arouse the deepest interest and enthusiasm, or you can conduct Telepathic experiments with your friends right in your own home.

About the author -- Excerpt from the Wikipedia:

William W. Atkinson was a very important and influential American figure in the early days of the New Thought Movement. He was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of New Thought.

Atkinson's 1906 book, Thought Vibration: The Law of Attraction in the Thought World, is associated with the thinking behind the phenomena surrounding the 2006 movie, The Secret, which gained widespread attention in the media from Saturday Night Live to The Oprah Winfrey Show in the United States.

Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought. From mental and physical wreck and financial ruin, he wrought perfect health, mental vigor and material prosperity, which he attributed to the application of the principles of New Thought.

Contents Covered:

• Lesson 1 -- The Nature of Mind Reading
  • A plain, practical, scientific explanation of this Vast, Mysterious Subject, explaining the action of Mind upon Mind, and the Mental Wireless Telegraphy, according to the latest and best authorities.
• Lesson 2 -- The Proofs of Mind Reading
  • The result of the latest scientific experiments and investigations regarding this subject; practical proof and indisputable facts.
• Lesson 3 -- Contact Mind Reading
  • Full instruction regarding the "Nerve Currents" passing from the human Transmitter to the human Receiver; stated so plainly that anyone may instantly grasp the theory and practice.
• Lesson 4 -- Development Exercises
  • How to develop yourself; how to grow proficient in practice; how to find Locations; how to find Objects; how to perform the necessary elementary feats, and thus prepare for Public Work.
• Lesson 5 -- Simple Demonstrations
  • Public or Parlor Demonstrations. Fourteen Practical Demonstrations are explained; full directions for performing them are given, so that the student may reproduce the experiments and demonstrations.
• Lesson 6 -- Difficult Demonstrations
  • Explanations and instructions given for their performance. The Banknote Test; the Blackboard Feats; Drawing Pictures; Telepathic Chess and Checkers, etc., described, explained, and full instructions given for their reproduction.
• Lesson 7 -- Sensational Feats
  • The Driving Feat; the Combination Lock Feat; the Office Detective Feat; the Postoffice Box Feat, and many other sensational demonstrations explained, together with an exposure of "Fake Demonstrations."
• Lesson 8 -- Higher Phenomena
  • Demonstrations without contact. Development Directions. Long Distance Experiments. Automatic Writing. Valuable Suggestions and Advice.

Written in 1921 by Dr. Harry D. Kitson, Professor of Psychology at Indiana University, How to Use Your Mind: A Psychology of Study (2nd Edition) is an exceptionally practical manual for the use of both students and teachers. It is arguably the best book on how to use your mind more effectively to achieve better results in your studies.

Contents Covered:

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Intellectual Problems of the College Freshman
  • Number. Variety. Lecture Method. Note Taking. Amount of Library Work. High Quality Demanded. Necessity for Making Schedule. A College Course Consists in the Formation of Habits. Requires Active Effort on Part of Student. Importance of Good Form.
• Note Taking
  • Uses of Notes. Lecture Notes -- Avoid Verbatim Reports. Maintain Attitude of Mental Activity. Seek Outline Chiefly. Use Notes in Preparing Next Lesson. Reading Notes -- Summarize Rather Than Copy. Read With Questions in Mind. How to Read. How to Make Bibliographies. Laboratory Notes -- Content. Form. Miscellaneous Hints
• Brain Action during Study
  • The Organ of Mind. Gross Structure. Microscopic Structure. The Neurone. The Nervous Impulse. The Synapse. Properties of Nervous Tissue -- Impressibility, Conductivity, Modifiability. Pathways Used in Study -- Sensory, Motor, Association. Study is a Process of Making Pathways in Brain.
• Formation of Study-Habits
  • Definition of Habit. Examples. Inevitableness of Habits in Brain and Nervous System. How to Insure Useful Habits -- Choose What Shall Enter; Choose Mode of Entrance; Choose Mode of Egress; Go Slowly at First; Observe Four Maxims. Advantages and Disadvantages of Habit. Ethical Consequences.
• Active Imagination
  • Nature of the Image. Its Use in Imagination. Necessity for Number, Variety, Sharpness. Source of "Imaginative" Productions. Method of Developing Active Imaginative Powers: Cultivate Images in Great Number, Variety, Sharpness; Actively Combine the Elements of Past Experience.
• First Aids to Memory -- Impression
  • Four Phases. Conditions of Impression: Care, Clearness, Choice of Favorable Sense Avenue, Repetition, Overlearning, Primacy, Distribution of Repetitions, (Inferences Bearing Upon Theme-writing), "Whole" vs "Part" Method, "Rote" vs "logical" Method, Intention.
• Second Aids to Memory -- Retention, Recall and Recognition
  • Retention. Recall. Recall Contrasted with Impression. Practise Recall in Impression. Recognition. Advantages of Review. Memory Works According to Law. Possibility of Improvement. Connection with Other Mental Processes.
• Concentration of Attention
  • Importance in Mental Life. Analysis of Concrete Attentive State. Cross-section of Mental Stream. Focal Object, Clear; Marginal Objects, Dim. Fluctuation. Ease of Concentration Requires (1) Removal of All Marginal Distractions Possible, (2) Ignoring Others. Conditions Favorable for Concentration. Relation to Other Mental Processes.
• How We Reason
  • Reasoning Contrasted with Simpler Mental Operations. Illustrated by Method of Studying Geometry. Analysis of Reasoning Act: Recognition of Problem, Efforts to Solve It, Solution. Study in Problems. Requirements for Effective Reasoning: Many Ideas, Accessible, Clear. How to Clarify Ideas: Define, Classify. Relation between Habit and Reasoning. Summary.
• Expression as an Aid in Study
  • Expression an Inevitable Accompaniment of Nervous Activity. Extent of Expressive Movements. Relation between Ideas and Expressive Acts. Ethical Considerations. Methods of Expression Chiefly Used in Study: Speech, Writing, Drawing. Effects of Expression: (1) On Brain, (2) On Ideas. Hints on Development of Freedom of Expression.
• How to Become Interested in a Subject
  • Nature of Interest. Intellectual Interests Gained through Experience. Many Possible Fields of Interest. Laws of Interest.
• The Plateau of Despond
  • Measurement of Mental Progress. Analysis of the "Learning Curve." Irregularity. Rapid Progress at Beginning. The Plateau. Causes. Remedies.
• Mental Second-Wind
  • Description: (1) Physical, (2) Mental. Hidden Sources of Energy. Retarding Effect of Fatigue. Analysis of Fatigue. How to Reduce Fatigue in Study.
• Examinations
  • Purposes. Continuous Effort and Cramming. Effective Methods of Reviewing. Immediate Preparation for an Examination Conduct in Examination-Room. Attitude of Activity. Attitude of Confidence.
• Bodily Conditions for Effective Study
  • Food: Quantity, Quality, Surroundings. Sleep: Amount, Conditions, Avoidance of Insomnia. Exercise: Regularity, Emphasis.
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Index