The World According to Humans: Are We Living Inside the Prison of Beliefs? – A Reality Check unfolds as a rigorous and unsettling inquiry into one of the most fundamental questions of human existence: do we encounter reality as it truly is, or only through the lens of what we are? From this starting point, the monograph challenges the quiet assumption that perception, belief, and knowledge provide direct access to truth. Instead, it reveals a more complex and humbling condition—on...

The World According to Humans is both a critique and an invitation to transcend the limitations of our current worldview. Drawing deeply from personal experience, this book explores how uncertainty, fluidity, diversity, and complexity are not obstacles but essential elements of human existence. It charts a path toward a self-transforming mind—one that bridges the gap between our inner worlds and the vast, interconnected reality we share. With clarity and insight, it inspires reade...

The bubonic plague sweeps across Europe. The knight Alistair, born the illegitimate son of a lord, is given the miraculous opportunity to be legitimized as his father's heir and attain the glory he seeks. In order to claim his birthright, Alistair is summoned before the Pope himself and tasked with a holy mission-track down and stop the plague's true source: Pestilence, the First Horseman of the Apocalypse.To defeat this mighty foe, Alistair reluctantly jo...

Lance Morrissey is a middle school outcast with a compulsive need for attention and a penchant for stretching the truth, behavior rooted in the trauma of his mother's unexplained disappearance. One morning, a tree fort appears in his backyard, seemingly out of nowhere. Drawn to it, he climbs inside and falls into the realm of Kairon: a dreamlike world inhabited by talking birds, elves, and pig-people. Here, Lance is told he is the prophesied savior destined to wield psychic power and slay ...

Take a comprehensive journey through the world of web development with React JS, from the basics to advanced techniques, with this all-in-one guide, "React.js for A Beginners Guide : From Basics to Advanced - A Comprehensive Guide to Effortless Web Development for Beginners, Intermediates, and Experts."Key FeaturesUp-to-Date: Constantly updated, the material in React Explained is always current.Clear instruction: You will follow plain English, clear visuals,...

Author Daniel L. Walker has written many poems about difficult times he experienced in his life. His debut poetry novel 2015 Mary Ballard Award Nominee titled” God’s Rain” talks about his personal demons, his marriage to co-author Teirra Walker, and dealing with rumors that his father allegedly molested a family member. Just as life began to look promising he would face tragedy with the untimely passing of his wife Teirra N. Walker.

Michael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual traditions, yet also deeply implicated in the making of the American mind.Here O'Brien succinctly and fluidly surveys the lives and works of many significant Southern intellectuals, including John C. Calhoun, Louisa McCord, Jame...

Around the year 2000, several hospitals in the American Northwest started implementing the Toyota production system. The silent revolution began to take its course. Today, virtually any new hospital in the United States is designed and built according to Lean principles. Hospitals which follow a Lean Hospital strategy are more successful: Patients are always put first, and patient experience and patient safety are main objectives. This leads to an increase in motivation and commitment on t...

Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of the most precious liberties Americans have always cherished is the ability to "make something of themselves"--to choose not only an occupation but an identity. Examining works by Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham ...

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolution...

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought p...

Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of the most precious liberties Americans have always cherished is the ability to "make something of themselves"--to choose not only an occupation but an identity. Examining works by Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham ...