"Ronni's mind fell completely silent. She stopped being aware of the room around her, there was only the hateful figure of a bully and an abuser ahead of her, all else was a blur." You're in a strange city. Your friend is missing. Could you find the courage to do what is necessary? Would you even know where to start? These are the questions faced by law graduate Ronni Wong when her friend Jenny disappears after a date with a man she met online. Finding evidence suggesting that Jenny's inte...

How do Americans bypass the increasingly dangerous influence of a sharp decline in individual and collective intellects? How does America regain intellectual and technological leadership on the world stage? Accomplished author and retired Brigadier General Hall unlocks the answers in his newest book.Unwilling to watch the world - America, in particular - decrease its individual and collective intellects, Brigadier General Wayne Michael Hall's newest book presses de...

Out of place at an experimental high school, sensitive high school junior Bryce Hughes steals his father's pharmaceutical sales samples to stay steady and share recreationally with his wealthy, spoiled, nihilistic friends at their wild weekend parties. Hopelessly hung up on his ex-girlfriend, Paige, whose emotions are as fickle as her taste for fashion, Bryce can barely see the quiet scholarship girl, Jaycee, who adores him.Over the course of a single school year, Bryce and his cre...

This anthology of essays written by author retired US Army Brigadier General Wayne Michael Hall involves critical thinking and planning in the new age-the Information Age-in relation to the Arrow of Time as it moves from past to present to future. The new age, the 21stcentury, proves to be quite different from the past. Change and turbulence prove intimidating and challenging in new ways from past cultural and societal changes.Unfortunately, society and its military element of nati...

How do Americans bypass the increasingly dangerous influence of a sharp decline in individual and collective intellects? How does America regain intellectual and technological leadership on the world stage? Accomplished author and retired Brigadier General Hall unlocks the answers in his newest book.Unwilling to watch the world - America, in particular - decrease its individual and collective intellects, Brigadier General Wayne Michael Hall's newest book presses de...

An illustrated beginnner's guide to one of the foundational texts of Marxist philosophy.Marx's Das Kapital cannot be put into a box marked "economics." It is a work of politics, history, economics, philosophy and even in places, literature. Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners is an introduction to the Marxist critique of capitalist production and its consequences for a whole range of social activities such as politics, media, education and religion.

This book examines the theoretical and conceptual foundation of effective modern intelligence collection—the strategies required to support intelligence analysis of the modern, complex operational environments of today's military conflicts or competitive civilian situations such as business.Just as the old rules of conventional warfare and intelligence analysis do not apply fully in the 21st-century environment, neither does the traditional methodology of collectin...

Is Kant really the 'bourgeois' philosopher that his advocates and opponents take him to be?In this bold and original re-thinking of Kant, Michael Wayne argues that with his aesthetic turn in the Third Critique, Kant broke significantly from the problematic philosophical structure of the Critique of Pure Reason. Through his philosophy of the aesthetic Kant begins to circumnavigate the dualities in his thought. In so doing he shows us today how the aesthetic...

The Beguilement of Humanity: How Satan the Devil Subverted God's Spiritual Order is a profound and thought-provoking exploration of one of the greatest mysteries of existence-the origin of evil and the fall of divine order.Blending scriptural foundation with poetic narrative and theological reflection, this book revisits the story of Lucifer, the "Shining One," once a being of unmatched beauty, wisdom, and purpose, who became the architect of rebellion against God....

With its authoritarian distortions, the Marxism of the 20th century sundered the connections between the practice of Communism, and its essentially democratic ethos.This book reconstructs those vital threads by turning to the work of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. In the wake of the rise of neoliberalism and the new global order that it ushered in, Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism asks: what form of political rule can facilitate the tran...

How do you pick up the broken pieces in your life? Is it a sweeping motion, or is it simply one piece at a time? And how do you assess the damage? Let's all take a deep breath for a minute-I mean from everything-and see how we can get through this stuff together. No color lines, no bigots, and no bullies. As a matter of fact, if you wanna square up with somebody, square up on the side of the Lord in prayer, for he will see you through and to victory.We all know that old habits can ...

The Mist Within takes you back to another time, a time when your transportation was your horse and a pistol on your hip was your security. But in this story, it also takes you to a mysterious encounter with an elderly woman who has a tale of heartbreak and tragedy that draws you into her world of revenge and justice. Watch for the upcoming sequel, The Mist Returns.