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TerraGreen
TerraGreen is one of the most respected monthly magazine dedicated to informing and enlightening its readers on issues of environment, energy, and sustainable development. Launched in 2004, TerraGreen has made an indelible impression on the minds of readers, both in India and across the world. Today, it enjoys a readership of over 40,000 and a subscriber base of close to 5,000. Helping the magazine along in its endeavour to take issues of absolute importance to the people is the fact that it is the only publication of its kind in the market; not only does it inform and educate, it does so in a subtle and reader-friendly manner. After all, the aim is to reach as many people as possible!
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• News • Comments • Worldview • Features • In Conservation • Red Alert • Cover Story • Special Reports • Perspective • TerraYouth • Wild Wonders • Green Product • Pioneer • Breakthrough • Review
• Environmental Research • Green Events • Wake-up Call
The ABC of Relativity
The ABC of Relativity clearly and engagingly explains Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to the layperson. It is considered to be a significant contribution to the popularization of science. Its author, Bertrand Russell, was an acclaimed British mathematician, philosopher and logician. Please note that in a few of the chapters, diagrams are included which clarify the author’s discourse. The listener may wish to consult a published text to refer to these diagrams. (Summary by Ciiufi Galeazzi)
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented writer, his essays helped to popularize science in the 19th century, and he is credited with the quote, “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” In The Advance of Science in the Last Half Century, he presents a summary of the major developments in Physics, Chemistry and Biology during the period 1839-1889 and their impact on society, within the historical context of philosophical thought and scientific inquiry going back to Aristotle. Huxley?s clear and readable prose makes this subject equally enjoyable for both the student of scientific history and the casual listener alike. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to enrich the soil for farmers – each in its own special way. Join our narrator, The Grain of Dust on a fascinating journey around the planet to meet them. “I don’t want you to think that I’m boasting, but I do believe I’m one of the greatest travellers that ever was; and if anybody, living or dead, has ever gone through with more than I have I’d like to hear about it. Not that I’ve personally been in all the places or taken part in all the things I tell in this book?I don’t mean to say that?but I do ask you to remember how long it is possible for a grain of dust to last, and how many other far-travelled and much-adventured dust grains it must meet and mix with in the course of its life. …Finally, if what we call flesh and blood can think and talk, why not a grain of dust? In fact, what is flesh and blood but dust come back to life? Says the poet?and the poets know: ‘The very dust that blows along the street Once whispered to its love that life is sweet.’ You see it’s as likely a thing as could happen?this whole story.” Summary by J. M. Smallheer with quotes from the Preface of the book
The American Egypt
Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote “the first book ever written by Englishmen on Yucatan?that Egypt of the New World, where, it is now generally admitted, Central American Civilisation reached its apogee?and to be, for the present at least, the only Englishmen who can claim to have explored the uncivilised north-eastern portions of the Peninsula and the islands of her eastern coast.” Their studies brought them to the conclusion, contrary to the bulk of the body of other contemporary experts, “that America’s first architects were Buddhist immigrants from Java and Indo-China.” Summary by Lynne Thompson.
The Astrological eMagazine
India’s trusted monthly astrology magazine includes:
Authoritative astrology and vastu lessons, tips and case studies — Jataka (predictive astrology), mundane astrology , muhurtha (electional astrology) and prasna (horary predictions)
Monthly Forecast for the 12 moon signs on general matters, good and bad dates, health and domestic life, career and finance;
Panchanga of the month, timings for Rahukala, Gulikakala and Yamakantaka, and sunrise and sunset timings.
