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The Hazelden Virtual Research Library enables professionals, researchers, and others needing addictions and substance abuse reference information to search its own unique database of over 14,000 titles specific to the addictions field.  The database draws from the premiere collection of print publications and other media housed in the physical Hazelden Library located on the Center City, MN campus of the Hazelden Foundation.

All items are focused on the topics of addiction, alcoholism, and chemical dependency, as well as the related topics of treatment, recovery, family, personal growth, psychology, self-help, lifestyle, health, counseling, and spirituality. Also included are pertinent biography, fiction, and children's literature books.

I am proud to present the entire text of this remarkable book. I hope it will be widely read, and I hope thereby Mivart will attain his proper place in history next to Charles Darwin. The conversion to text from the scans was completed in April of 2004. I would be grateful if you would inform me of any errors.

The Agnostic Christmas by Robert Ingersoll (1892)
Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
The Bigotry Of Colleges by Robert Ingersoll
The Brooklyn Divines by Robert Ingersoll (1883)
Conversation on Religion and Antisemitism by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
Crumbling Creeds by Robert Ingersoll
The Development of Religion by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
The Foundations Of Faith by Robert Ingersoll
Effect Of The World's Fair On The Human Race by Robert Ingersoll
Note About Einstein's use of the word "God"; Albert Einstein (Off Site)
On Prayer, Purpose, and the Soul by Albert Einstein (Off Site)
Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? by Albert Einstein (Off Site)

he Christian church has had a continuing concern for the for the relation between God, man, and nature. Western science emerged in cultures dominated by Christianity. The question arises how Christianity influenced attitudes toward nature and the practice of what was later to be called science. It is also important to discover the ways that an increasing knowledge of nature has influenced Christian thought.
Our keynote paper by English, Chemist-Historian Colin Russell aptly focuses on the value of history in understanding toady's science/faith concerns. American historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers offer a seminal statement on the 'conflict thesis' in Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science.

The Gestalt Archive Gestalt theoretical / Gestalt psychological articles
online in full text
A primary distinction that comes to mind when one undertakes to compare gestalten and computers is that computers as instruments by themselves are deprived of consciousness, whereas the cognitive and perceptual processes of gestalten are not. But this distinction does not really hold, because the finest example of a gestalt can operate without consciousness. It is the physiological functions of the human and animal body. The nervous system organizes the complex physical activities of the body as well as its cognitive ones.

"The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clearcut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole." Max Wertheimer, Gestalt theory.
Social Research, 11 (translation of lecture at the Kant Society, Berlin, 1924).

These pages are devoted to the presentation and promotion of the Rorschach method, concentrating on the way it has been practiced within the classical European tradition - from Hermann Rorschach himself in 1921, via Ewald Bohm in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's, and to the contemporary workers in the Rorschach-Bohm tradition. You can here find basic information about Hermann Rorschach, about the different Rorschach traditions and the essential differences between them, and about the current scientific debate about the Rorschach test. There are also some links to other Web pages devoted to the Rorschach method.

Despite his relative obscurity, the greatest genius of all time may have been Nikola Tesla. With over 700 patents in his name, Tesla shaped our current technological landscape more than any other individual. How, then, did this great man end up dying destitute and in obscurity? Did Tesla's extraordinary mind decline into insanity... or was he simply far, far ahead of his time?

In this epic-length series, ParaScope takes a look at the early life and bizarre eccentricities of the great inventor, and his hard-fought first victory with the alternating current engine.

This transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was first published in the February 1960 issue of Caltech's Engineering and Science, which owns the copyright. It has been made available on the web at http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html with their kind permission.

Nikola Tesla was born a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856 in a mountainous area of the Balkan Peninsula known as Lika. His father Milutin, and his mother Djuka, were both Serbian by origin. Tesla's father was a stern but loving Orthodox priest, who was also a gifted writer and poet. At a young age, Tesla immersed himself in his father's library. Tesla's mother was a hard working woman of many talents who created appliances to help with home and farm responsibilities. One of these was a mechanical eggbeater. Tesla attributed all of his inventive instincts to his mother.