Books that explained

This week's Wednesday challenge is books that explained.

1. Beginnings by Isaac Asimov. He works backwards in time from recent to the big bang and explains how everything came about. Masterful job. Not available on Amazon. They think he only wrote fiction. 

2. Worthy is the Lamb by Ray Summers. It explained apocalyptical literature and the book of Revelation. Totally changed my understanding of end times.

3. Victorious Eschatology by Eberle and Trench .  It explained the passage in Daniel predicting the coming of the Messiah and subsequent rise of Christianity.

4.Susana by Irene Blea. She does a masterful job of explaining how when the Americans took over New Mexico from Mexico they used water right laws to steal the headwaters from the farmers and sheep herders force them to sell their land.

5. World War I by John Keegan. He explains how the limitations of wired communication on the battlefield resulted in timid advances resulting in trench warfare and stalemate.

6 Casca: The Trench Soldier by Barry Sadler. The beginning of this book Casca has come back to England without funds. He's living on the streets nearly starving. The author explains the Bobby system of keeping watch on the streets of London at night and how all the money being made in the largest empire in world history was going to only a very few hands. The first hand account of trench warfare, balloon observation, flying in planes dropping bombs and the first use of tanks, poison gas and flame throwers is eye opening too.

6. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It is hard to live up to the model that this man exemplified under the most brutal dictatorship Germany was ever under. Knowing the explanation and living up to is not easy. If first read in seminary over forty years ago and have never faced the trials he endured, but have failed to live the example he set.

7. Longitude by Dava Sobel
 I was taking a seminar through National Geographic to become a state geographer at the high school level. This is the book they spoke about the most. It's about how the development of a time piece that could tell accurate time in any climate was essential to using longitude for navigation. It's a fascinating read, it was made into a tv show, not a series by BBC.

8. Miracle of the Moringa Tree by Hank Bruce and Jill Folk.
A good friend wrote this book being advised that if you want to educate the public do it in a children's book. He is encouraging nursing homes to grow seedlings of this tree and send them to third world coutries to be planted and help end world hunger. There is no part of this tree that is not edible and it is highly nutritious.