Respected television producer Barbara Hall cited God at the Speed of Light as one of the inspirations for her creation of the CBS TV series "Joan of Arcadia" (2003-05). The unique and supernatural characteristics of light that influenced Hall have equally served to inspire the likes of Copernicus, Ole Romer, Michelson/Morley, Sir Edwin Hubble, and Albert Einstein. Einstein, for instance, frequently envisioned what it would be like to ride on the back of a photon as it sped across the Universe at the speed of light--a speed at which Einstein calculated that time ceased to exist. Since Einstein...

In Clearing the Air: Art of the Bowel Movement, physician Lee Baumann provides a detailed description of the anatomy, physiology, and proper care of one of our body's most valuable resources: the terminal bowel. Few people, including many physicians, understand the sequential, complex, and consequential nature of the underappreciated organs involved: the sigmoid colon, rectum, and anus. Despite the rectum's superior sagacity and judgment, the anal sphincter commands undue control over the final decision-making algorithm. As such, the overbearing anus may exercise its unrestrained power to the...

The COMPLETE Seagu11 Project Duology contains the complete two-volume collection of Dr. Baumann's science fiction classics, The Seagu11 Project and The Dark Conscious. In The Seagu11 Project, the united world government has just selected Michael S. Gibraltar, M.D. as one of the elite crew for its 11th in a series of secret projects. A recent discovery in the frigid landscape of the Antarctic has triggered a mission to the Milky Way's central black hole. At 300 million times the mass of our Sun, the hole is a behemoth of celestial proportions. The experience will forever alter Mike's former...

This author has suffered with a severe form of RLS for most of my adult life. The non-drug strategies employed and recommended in this handbook have been unearthed and refined out of my desperation for a reasonable night's sleep--all stemming from my varied experiences, my medical background, and the input from countless other RLS sufferers. The approaches detailed in this text range from the taxing inconvenience of an isometric exercise in the middle of the night to the ridiculously simple placement of a common household item onto the instep of your foot. Each strategy described has its own...