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Free eBooks from Gems Press

Gems Press resurrects deserving public domain books that would otherwise be forgotten. We clean up the OCR scans of the original book pages and turn them into structured reflowable text, so they work well with e-readers. We then offer them to you at no charge, with our compliments. You can download these books as epub files and then open them in an e-reader or email them to a Kindle. See the gallery and links here in this post, or visit the Gems Press website, gemspress.earth.

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The eCoddle Is Ready to Level Up

The eCoddle — the world’s only all-natural e-device holder — is looking for someone to take it to the next level. We’re not hiring anyone — we’re looking for licensing or entrepreneurial arrangements. Check out the eCoddle website.

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Wellbeing Policy Economy Design Course

Free online, start anytime at wellbeingeconomycourse.org. “Through an engaging mix of videos, deep dives, case studies and hands-on exercises, this course walks you through what a wellbeing economy is and how governments in cities, regions and countries around the world are working towards it.”

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Why Wearing Spandex Is a Bad Idea

Almost every stretchy fabric has spandex in it. Bad idea. Spandex is a synthetic, petroleum-based fiber, also called elastane, and sometimes trademarked as Lycra. The word “spandex” is an anagram of “expands.” The word “elastane” comes from “elastic urethane.” Spandex is made from at least 85% polyurethane, sourced from nonrenewable crude oil or natural gas.

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What to Wear? Part 1

What to wear? As with our diets, our clothing choices may find us unthinkingly doing things to our bodies that are very definitely bad for us. Like processed foods that aren’t really food, most of the clothes in our closets aren’t doing us any favors.

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stephensgospel.com

www.stephensgospel.com “Gospel: from the Old English gōdspel, from gōd ‘good’ + spel ‘news, a story’. 1) a thing that is absolutely true 2) a set of principles or beliefs. The site is intended to share with the world the core of Stephen Gaskin’s teachings. It is a work in progress, and so far shows excerpts from his books Monday Night Class and (the first half of) Caravan.”

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Where There Is No Doctor

Read free. “Where There Is No Doctor was first written in Spanish for farm people in the mountains of Mexico where, 27 years ago, the author helped form a health care network now run by the villagers themselves. Where There Is No Doctor has been translated into more than 50 languages and is used by village health workers in over 100 countries.”

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weall.org

Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL) is the collaboration of changemakers working together to transform
the economic system…. A Wellbeing Economy is an economy designed to serve people and planet, not the other way around. In a Wellbeing Economy, the rules, norms and incentives are set up to deliver quality of life and flourishing for all people, in harmony with our environment, by default.

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transitionnetwork.org

“Transition means change — a shift from one way of living to another. The Transition Movement, which began in Britain and Ireland in 2006, has since grown into an international network of communities spanning 67 countries. It envisions a world where every individual can become part of a supportive community, feeling safe, welcomed, and empowered to thrive.”

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Agricultural Engineering

Read free. “This volume has been written primarily as a text for secondary schools of agriculture, and for colleges where only a general course can be offered. Claim is not made for much new material concerning the subjects discussed; but rather an attempt has been made to place under one cover a general discussion of agricultural engineering subjects, which hitherto could not be secured except in several volumes and hence impractical for text-book purposes.”

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Essentials of Public Speaking

Read free. “First and last, public speaking is a practical art, a means, not an end. It is a purposive activity, not a mere vehicle for the exhibition of skill. The only excuse for studying the art is that we may fashion a tool that will help us turn a vision into a reality. But if we are to make it a useful tool, we must always speak with a definite purpose in mind. No speaker ever attained his goal without subordinating his art to his subject.”

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Paths to Power

Read free. “It is almost universally conceded that each one carries a certain atmosphere that may be felt by all who come in contact with him; but how that atmosphere is formed and held by each individual is an open question…. That the proposition may be clearly understood, it will be best to state it boldly. It is this: Man controls absolutely his own atmosphere.“

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Beginners’ Botany

Read free. “If one compares any two plants of the same kind ever so closely, it will be found that they differ from each other. The difference is apparent in size, form, color, mode of branching, number of leaves, number of flowers, vigor, season of maturity, and the like; or, in other words, all plants and animals vary from an assumed or standard type. If one compares any two branches or twigs on a tree, it will be found that they differ in size, age, form, vigor, and in other ways.”

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Rational Living

Read free. “There seem to the writer to be four great inferences from modern psychology, and each with suggestions for life and character—that is, with direct suggestion of the conditions of growth, of character, of happiness, and of influence. These four inferences are: Life is complex; man is a unity; will and action are of central importance; and the real is concrete.”

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Seventy Years Young

Read free. “The idea that the writer has tried to present, simply and practically, is that man’s responses and reactions to life are virtually within his own control; that the quality and number of his responses and reactions determine, to a large degree, his oldness or youngness.”

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