A unique and fascinating collection of letters from a soldier, planter, and journalistThe Union states of what is now the Midwest have received far less attention from historians than those of the East, and much of Michigan’s Civil War story remains untold. The eloquent letters of James W. King shed light on a Civil War regiment that played important roles in the battles of Stones River, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge. King enlisted in the 11th Michigan in 1861 ...

Them Before Us has flipped the script on adult-centric attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and reproductive technologies by framing these issues around a child’s right to be raised by both their mother and father. Set against a backdrop of sound research, the compelling stories throughout each chapter confirm that a child’s mental, physical, and emotional well-being depends on being loved by the two people responsible for their existence. It’s a paradigm shift that will impact ...

Is religion compatible with science? "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra famously attempted to draw parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism. What Capra conspicuously avoided was any comparison between the Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam – and physics. These religions of faith have no scientific component whatever. They stand in stark opposition to science. There is no middle ground, no compromise, and no basis for mutual understanding. This is a dialogue...

The human race is ill. One story above all reveals the sickness at the core of the human psyche... the tale of the Tree of Knowledge. What does it say about the human race that knowledge is associated with the loss of paradise, with the forbidden, with the defiance of the rightful authority ("God"), with alliance with the serpent (the Devil), and with the advent of suffering, sin, and death?! Why should we be surprised that Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, described reason as "...

Butch Fatale is a fast-talking, skirt-chasing, two-fisted lesbian private investigator with an insatiable appetite for two things — women and trouble.It started off easy. A little lost femme, a heartbroken butch and fat roll of bills. But when the beautiful corpses start stacking up, Butch realizes she's got enemies in high places and the Armenian mob measuring her for a plot in the Glendale Cemetery.Praise for Christa Faust:"Christa Faust is a Veronica in a world o...

**“Fierce, lyrical, and unrelentingly intimate . . . This is a story about hauntings both literal and inherited, a child gone missing, and the women who carry everything that came before. Faust doesn’t just bend form—he breaks it open. —Morgan Talty, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez“Carson Faust debuts as a literary force." —Monica Brashears, author of House of CottonWhen a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with ...

M-theory, the latest attempt by scientists to formulate a grand theory of everything, is doomed to failure from the outset. Why? Because it ignores the unextended domain outside space and time, the domain of zero and infinity. M-theory explicitly sets out to prevent the appearance of zero and infinity in any of its equations. It is the last will and testament of materialism, its concluding grand folly before it finally confronts the truth of an immaterial partner to the material world....

Even more than an economic system, capitalism is a psychological instrument for manipulating and exploiting gullible, credulous, suggestible human beings. It's about "pressing your buttons", about working out what makes you tick in order to sell you more stuff. It's about operant conditioning to control your behaviour. Where religion wants to control you by making you fear God, capitalism wants to control you by making you desire to be treated like a God... while you have the money to buy ...

Many atheists consider Darwin's theory of evolution the proof that God does not exist. On the contrary, it is the basis of God's existence. God is not the creator of the universe but rather its ultimate outcome, the optimal expression of the inherent potential of the cosmos. He is the maximum actualization of possibility.Physicists say that anything not forbidden is compulsory. God is the compulsory apex of cosmic evolution. Modern science has led to a complete loss of a religious ...

Learn from James E. Faust again!Included in this bundle:Finding Light in a Dark WorldReach Up for the LightTo Reach Even Unto YouStories from My LifeChristmas and the Good DiaryFinding Light in a Dark World"We challenge the powers of darkness," says James E. Faust, second counselor in the First Presidency of the Church, "when we speak of the perfect life of the Savi...

Saul, David, and Solomon are dominant figures in the Hebrew Bible, rulers of an expanding Israelite polity before it dissolved into two separate kingdoms. Saul's paranoid jealousy, David's killing the Philistine champion Goliath with a slingshot, and Solomon's meeting the Queen of Sheba are familiar stories to many people, but what is the truth behind the texts? While scholars long believed these three monarchs to have been historical personalities, over the past three decades many have qu...

Is it possible to become God? Is the unconscious mind nothing other than the God portal, the Heaven gate?This is the extraordinary account of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Pythagorean Illuminati of how it is possible for every human being to attain divinity.There are two vast obstacles to overcome, one relating to a lack of consciousness, and the other to an over-identification with consciousness. The followers of the Abrahamic religions are "bic...