The Free Agent Lifestyle is a guide for men who are looking to improve their lives, not with the intentions of pursuing and impressive others, but for themselves. This lifestyle can be a temporary sabbatical from the plantation of expectation, commitment and pursuing women or it can be a lifetime change. There is no greater form of empowerment to have than to realize that this life has so much more to offer those that live free.

The Free Agent Lifestyle is a guide for men who are looking to improve their lives, not with the intentions of pursuing and impressive others, but for themselves. This lifestyle can be a temporary sabbatical from the plantation of expectation, commitment and pursuing women or it can be a lifetime change. There is no greater form of empowerment to have than to realize that this life has so much more to offer those that live free.

A book set amongst musicians and casinos in Reno, Nevada, The Bass Sax and the Landlord explores the landlord-tenant dynamic when an excessive noise complaint plunges the landlord into the gritty blue world of a tall sly bass sax player. A dark family secret is forever silenced leading to an inheritance obtained and tricky revenge exacted in this humorous tale about a bass saxophone.

Greg Adams had a damn good life. A bestselling cookbook, a partner who loved him, a dog on the back deck, and the respect of his friends.Then he walked into an exam room at Strong Memorial Hospital and everything changed.In 2015, Adams was sexually assaulted by his urologist during a routine appointment - and again two weeks later in his own home. When he tried to report it, two police departments refused to take a complaint. The Monroe County District Attorney shut down th...

How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problemsTech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served...

This fully illustrated study explores and depicts the machine-gun tactics employed by both sides on the Western Front in 1914–18.During World War I, machine guns made an enormous combat contribution in the hands of both Entente and Central Powers forces, not only during the trench warfare of 1914–17 but also in the more mobile climactic battles of 1918. While light machine guns and 'automatic rifles' were widely issued to infantry at platoon level, this book focuse...

The Bible stands at the heart of the Christian faith. But this leads to an inescapable question: why should we trust the Bible? Written to help non-Christians, longtime Christians, and everyone in between better understand why God’s Word is reliable, this short book explores the historical and theological arguments that have helped lead millions of believers through the centuries to trust the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Written by pastor Greg Gilbert, author of the popular books Wha...

"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book ReviewAn Editor's Choice, New York Times Book ReviewLonglisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingLonglisted for Goodreads Choice AwardEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, ...

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for molding the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist A...

The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Buddhist communities. Despite its undisputed importance in the history of Buddhism, research on this huge collection has remained largely the province of Buddhologists focusing on textual and bibliographical studies. We thus aim to initiate methodological innovations to study the transformation of t...

GEFAHR AUS DEM INNEREN Nachdem Darth Vader während der Droidenplage eine Reihe von Prüfungen durch Imperator Palpatine über sich ergehen lassen musste, gelang es ihm schließlich, die abtrünnigen Droiden zu seinem Vorteil zu nutzen und einen auf ihn gerichteten Angriff imperialer Truppen abzuwehren. Doch nun wächst im Inneren des Imperiums eine neue Bedrohung heran, die eine echte Gefahr für den Imperator werden könnte ... Dieser Band enthält US-STAR WARS: Darth Vader (2020) #42-47, "The Cu...

'Book of the Year' as chosen by The Conversation'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMESThe bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine ou...