SURVIVING YOUR PARENTSYour parents didn't just raise you.They wired you.If your reactions, relationships, or self-worth don't make sense to you, the source is usually earlier than you think.This is not therapy.Not forgiveness.Not parent-bashing.It's a clear look at how your parents shaped you-and how to stop living on autopilot.You can't change your parents.

"Boomers yelled at lawns. Gen X shrugged. Millennials therapized. Gen Z memes. Turns out-we're all just trying to laugh our way through the madness."Diary of a Mad Boomer isn't just a memoir-it's a cross-generational roast. Gary E. Stern takes you from Cold War paranoia and draft notices to oat milk boba and doomscrolling, proving that absurdity is timeless and laughter is the only thing that still works.Whether you're a Boomer made of asbestos and bourbon or a Gen Z'er rub...

EVERY SUCCESS STORY COMES AT A PRICE.James Hastings has everything the American Dream promises. money, power, and a view of a skyline that glitters like precious gems. But behind the glass walls and conference calls, the fabric of his soul is in profound decay, and the dream has become a custodial sentence, with no prospect of parole.The Nightmare of Success is an unflinced to confront the truth of his existence. Everything has a price but its value is another matter. Succe...

Pain arrives uninvited. It changes your posture, your plans, and your perspective. You can fight it, deny it, or learn from it - but you can't ignore it forever.In Pain: The Unwanted Guest, Gary E. Stern confronts the quiet tyranny of physical and emotional suffering with brutal honesty and hard-won wisdom. Drawing from decades as a trial lawyer and martial artist, he exposes how endurance, discipline, and clarity can turn agony into instruction.This isn't a self-help book....

This book is meant to land squarely in the category of "observational humor," told through the gravelly voice of a cranky old man who survived the 1960s and lived long enough to compare them to the baffling social gymnastics of the 21st century. Let's be honest: some customs from that era were sweetly naïve, while others were so off-the-charts ignorant or reckless that modern readers might wince. Or gasp. Or both.The late '60s were a time of innocent chaos we'll never see again. Wo...

The Slapton Sands tragedy unfolds as a long-buried wartime mystery whose final fate of the missing men reshapes our understanding of the Normandy buildup.In April 1944 with the D-Day invasion looming, a convoy of American landing craft sailed along England’s south coast. In the dead of night, German E-boats struck and within minutes, ships were sunk, hundreds of US servicemen were dead, and the Allies had suffered their greatest loss of life in the build-up to the ...

This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world) has embedded in it a moral code, as well as examining how particular ethical/theological worldviews influence our treatment of nature.Is there an abstract, objective moral code in na...

"Simply breathtaking. It doesn't simply offer alternatives to the history of Pointe du Hoc, it blows them away . . . for fans of anything WWII [or] D-Day."— War History OnlineThe Rangers mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and breakout inland. Simultaneously other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to destroy the "huge" gun battery there and thus protect the invasion fleet from being targeted. But was the Point...

The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the significance of the region's history all the more apparent. In The Human Tradition in the Old South, Professor James C. Klotter has gathered twelve insightful essays that explore the region's past and ponder its place in the broader story of the nation. This highly readable volume presents the South's...

This WWII oral history provides a fresh account of this famous episode in the Battle of the Bulge using declassified interviews with German commanders.In December of 1944, the Third Reich was in retreat and Allied victory was just around the corner—unless the Battle of the Bulge succeeded in turning the tide of the war. The US 101st Airborne were the only Allied unit capable of slowing the German advance towards Antwerp. And they were ordered to do just that at a sm...

A follow-up to the New York Times-bestselling The Cover-Up at Omaha Beach. "The second volume of the epic study breaks new ground." — FiretrenchGary Sterne, a keen collector of militaria and co-founder of The Armourer and Skirmish magazines, has always been fascinated by the D-Day landings. In particular he was intrigued by the lack of precise information relating to the mystery of the "missing guns" of Pointe du Hoc.

Jenseits der StadtgrenzeIn ferner Zukunft hat sich das Antlitz der menschlichen Gesellschaft radikal verändert. In Diasper, der riesigen, durch eine Kuppel hermetisch abgeriegelten letzten Stadt auf der Erde, leben die Menschen tausend Jahre, speichern ihre Erinnerungen und werden danach wiedererweckt. Doch als ein Kind ohne Erinnerungen geboren wird und alles hinterfragt, gerät eine scheinbar perfekte Gesellschaft ins Wanken…