The trials and tribulations of settling the western half of America over a hundred and fifty years ago are legendary. With the numerous mountain ranges came the inevitable need for the settlers to cross them. This premise is what prompted Zimbell House to create this anthology.The Mountain Pass tells twelve such tales from the perspective of eleven new writers. Some are heart-wrenching, and others are humorous, but all give a glimpse of the courage and perseverance it took for thes...

The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility.Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of Latinos in their quest for the American Dream. The Latino/a American Dream asks many timely questions, including: how do Latino/as view the Ameri...

How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody? In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this question by documenting the rise of a new national figure he calls "Pop-Culture Japan." Emerging in the wake of Japan's dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s, Pop-Culture Japan reflected the hopes of Japanese state bureaucrats and political elites seeking to recover their country's standing on the global stage. White argues that due to ...

A Message from the Author:“Dear friend, in the pages of my new gift to the world: Powerful Cosmic Beings of White Witchcraft, you will discover the Names and Offices of Seven Cosmic Beings of great power. These are the same Cosmic Beings which witches and warlocks call forth to create their own reality.“You have probably lived your life up to this moment without any awareness of their presence. But as those who are initiated into the secret art know, these ...

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was a philosopher, scientist, essayist, critic, biographer, and author of plays, poems, and prose. Sympathy in Harmony is the first book to examine Cavendishâs philosophy of value. Is there such a thing as value? If so, is value a fundamental feature of reality or does it admit of explanation? Does the value something possesses depend in some way on the value we take it to possess? Is our taking something to possess value a matter of belief, say, or of feelin...

Republic Earth’s core argument is stark: the growing threat posed by authoritarianism, and the autocratic Shanghai Cooperation Organization, led by China and Russia, threatens the emergence of a new democratic global society in the 21st century. Republic Earth Organisation: To counter the autocratic threat posed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and create a Global Democracy in the 21st Century will enlighten Australians and all citizens around the world that since 2001, autocratic ...

Following on from the popular "Seven Angels of the Seven Planets" title by Carl Nagel, Daniel White has produced his own monograph for practising occultists everywhereIn the pages of this amazing new monograph by Daniel White, you will discover Seven Secret Names and Offices of Seven Planetary Angels. These are the seven angelic beings you can call forth to create your own reality. The creative energies of the Planetary Angels surround us every moment of our lives. And yet, we will...

The Range of Reasons contributes to two debates and it does so by bringing them together. The first is a debate in metaethics concerning normative reasons, the considerations that serve to justify a person's actions and attitudes. The second is a debate in epistemology concerning the norms for belief, the standards that govern a person's beliefs and by reference to which they are assessed. The book starts by developing and defending a new theory of reasons for ac...

Have you tried dozens of ways to make a decent amount of money, only to watch them all come to nothing no matter how hard you worked? If so, the problem isn't in your financial system. It's an energy blockage in your unconscious programming.The Financial Freedom System unblocks that energy with an easy-to-follow, stress-reducing path to peace of mind, stability, and freedom. Get ready to transform your dependence on others so you can stand on your own two feet. Move instea...

In the tender embrace of these pages lies a healing journey through the kaleidoscope of grief—a profound passage through sorrow's shadows and the eventual dawn of solace. Each chapter gently unfolds the multifaceted experience of loss, offering a comforting hand to those carrying the weight of bereavement. With poetic compassion, the narrative explores grief's contours, from the rawest pangs of absence to the quiet acceptance that comes with time. Here, the silent whispers of the departed ...

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature. Daniel White draws on perspectives in philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics (the science of communication and control in animals and machines) to explore human self-understanding through film in the new era. The classical figure of Janus, looking both to the future and the past, serves as a guide throughout the ...

Affect as Cultural Critique assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not the formulation of an answer but the cultivation of a feeling? What if understanding the powerful effects of discourses requires somatic rather than semiotic exercises? And where habits of academic professionalism prohibit experiencing possible worlds – what if anthropology as a di...