Newton's Library
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Newton's Library

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  This research explores the grassroots brand community centered on the Apple Newton, a product that was abandoned by the marketer. Supernatural, religious, and magical motifs are common in the narratives of the Newton community, including the miraculous performance and survival of the brand, as well as the return of the brand creator.

  A collection of prose and poetry, about Vinegar Hill and the surrounding land. The book was written in order to raise money for purchasing conservation land in the area.

  Written in 1870 and published by the author, "No Treason" remains one of the greatest flat-out anarcho-libertarian rants ever penned.

  An explanation of the differences between vices and crimes, and some questions about what rights governments and individuals may claim.

  Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Diamond Age, reports from South China on Market Leninism in the Shenzhen economic zone.

  A column on Roentgen, CAT-scans, MRI and the visionary cancer researcher Dr. Raymond Damadian.

  Dreaming of space-flight, and predicting its future, have always been favorite pastimes of science fiction. In this science column for F&SF, Mr. Sterling can't resist the urge to contribute to this grand tradition.

  A short essay on clouds and the history of meteorology, with some discussion of the effects of our current life-style upon the weather.

  An essay on the problems of education, the differences between the bible and what is called "a Christian upbringing" and how these differences are resolved.

  A solitary man returns to spend some time at a pavilion where he stayed in is youth, but finds it to be occupied, while the owner seems to have forgotten their old friendship and attacks him in the woods nearby.

  The well-known story of a man and his mysterious alter-ego.

  A story about courage and friendship, and how Freckles, the one-handed Guard of the Limberlost, found both love and his lost family.

  An argument to prove that the abolishing of christianity in England may, as things now stand (1708), be attended with some inconveniences, and perhaps not produce those many good effects proposed thereby.

  A humourous poem about the poor old Philemon and his wife, who late one evening opened their door to two wandering saints in disguise.

  "The most ancient and natural grounds of quarrels are lust and avarice, which, though we may allow to be brethren, or collateral branches of pride, are certainly the issues of want."

  A fun and educational poem about the likenessess and differences between man and beast.

  According to this satirical verse, man is not as rational as he wants to believe.

  A collection of valuable thoughts and ideas on such diverse subjects as life, religion, age and politics.

  Twelwe short verses - one for every month of the year.

  A comprehensive introduction to comet-mining - a relatively unexplored area of space development, which may play a central role in cracking open the space frontier.