This book is broken down into four separate modules: Positive Focus for Results In this section we will concentrate on how to get yourself into the appropriate mindset for optimal results. The Process of Discovering Your Purpose Here, we will discuss the steps you will take to find your unique path. Everyone has a different idea of “purpose” in their lives. While the goal is to walk alongside God while achieving that purpose, the first step is discovering yours. Setting and Executing Your ...

John Gonzalez is a South Kingstown, Rhode Island resident of Taíno descent, whose ceremonial name, Kanipawit Maskwa (Standing Bear), was given to him during the final days of the Standing Rock occupation in North Dakota, where over 500 Tribal Nations and their allies prayerfully came together and stood against a militarized corporation. A water protector who spent three months on the front lines, John worked with leadership to help evacuees and those who remained during the worst blizzard ...

“I see clearly,” Pope Francis said at the outset of his papacy, “that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle.”This inspiring vision by Pope Francis speaks volumes on the importance of the Catholic social tradition and the role of pastoral ministry in addressing the social issues of our time. The premise for this book is the recognition...

What should Christian discourse look like after philosophical modernity? In one manner or another the essays in this volume seek to confront and intellectually exorcise the prevailing elements of philosophical modernity, which are inherently transgressive disfigurations and refigurations of the Christian story of creation, sin, and redemption. To enact these various forms and styles of Christian intellectual exorcism the essays in this volume make appeal to, and converse with, the magister...

What if Christian thought was thinking in the time just before the second coming of Christ? What if Christianity was residing within the living reality of Christ’s horrifying question: When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith on earth? In this time the days must be shortened for the sake of the elect, for even they are subject to the deception of this Luciferian apostasy.Prologue to a Metaphysics of Patmos is a metaphysical-theological thought experiment that projec...

ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli’s death. The treatise is not actually representative of his published work during his lifetime, but it is certainly the best remembered one.(Summary from Wikipedia.org)

In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it 'A Modest Proposal' (1729) or 'A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.' The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though writte...

The late Jean-Louis Chrétien’s responsorial and polyphonic style of thinking is nothing less than a performance of gratitude, which manifests the many ways and manners that our wounded finitude is graced and blessed along the peregrine path of human existence. Finitude’s Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétien is a receptive celebratory response to the immense fecundity and potential of Chrétien’s “thank you” of gratitude. This volume gathers leading Chrétien scholars and...

A Modest Proposal is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire...

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.The novel-length version was published in April 1891.The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord H...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The information in this book can give you insight into what effective communication is and how to be an active participant in it.What this book CAN do… Understanding how to read and give non-verbal cues is an important part of communication. We do it automatically without even knowing that we are so understanding is the key word. Still, if you want to master body language in order to manipulate others, you will ...

Southeast Asian Fantasy Drabbles is the second volume in the Insignia Drabbles series.This anthology includes 83 drabbles (100-word stories) inspired by various Southeast Asian folklore, as well as original fantasy and science fiction pieces.All Contributors:Alanna Robertson-Webb, Benjamin Y. Tan, Ben Umayam, Carmen Indalecio, Celestine Trinidad, Chris Bannor, C. Marry Hultman, Chris Hewitt,Chris Jackson, Connor Orrico, Dav...