What does it mean to be a man in America today? At a time when cultural voices are conflicted about the role of men, Masculinity in America returns to the timeless virtues that have guided generations: duty, honor, responsibility, faith, family, courage, and service.From the grit of the frontier and the resolve of the Revolution to the quiet strength of fathers, workers, and community leaders, John Jacobs takes readers on a sweeping narrative through America's past and pre...

The book offers a fictional account of life in the year 2000. It contains abundant speculation about technological invention, including descriptions of a worldwide telephone network, solar power, air travel, space travel to the planets Saturn and Jupiter, and terraforming engineering projects — damming the Arctic Ocean, and adjusting the Earth's axial tilt by the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company.In Astor's novel, the future United States is a multi-continental superpower. Eur...

Human life is a combination of positive and negative experiences. Although there is an infinite number of positive experiences in life, people are prone to take in negative ones in their daily lives. When people become depressed, there is a swing in their brain states and the patterns that direct attention, thinking, and behavior in specific ways, mainly with regard to losses and threats. Memories of earlier losses and threats are activated. Attention and focusing on positive events become...

Justice delayed is justice denied.Michael’s idyllic life was shattered when a brutal attack claimed his parents’ lives and the police did nothing to identify their assailants. Too young to be a vigilante, he vows to one day seek justice himself; even if it means turning back time.Likewise, her partner’s sudden murder plunged Cassie’s career into chaos. A headstrong but promising young officer, she is determined to seek her own justice; even if the suspects are her superiors...

As an Elder in his church, John was occasionally called on to deliver the Sunday sermon. He also conducted a weekly bible study. He started to send out inspirational/ devotional emails to those in the congregation who had come to appreciate his vast biblical knowledge and background. Before long, others asked to be added to his distribution list – other church members, family and friends. He was being encouraged to publish these emails but, sadly, passed away before he could see that throu...

Our laws, our society, our emotions, our hearts, our expressions – these are all governed by our almighty God. Muslims put their faiths in the Quran, whereas Christians preach the beatitudes as well as the New Testament. Both claim to praise God, except through vastly different teachings and ways. God is universally acknowledged as the greatest legislator of all time. However, the question to ask here is, have His laws caused oppression rather than salvation? Intuition tells one that the s...

A World Fantasy Award Nominee!The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.A brilliant ...

In the book Little Bobby OMalley, the reader learnedof how Bobby saved the life of a young Seminole Indianboy named Tenatke-Yaha (Thunder Wolf ), and how thatboy, whom Bobby would later call Thunder, became hisbest friend.Bobby saved Thunder from a panther, so the people of hisvillage gave Bobby the name of Hakla-Kowechobe, whichmeans (The Boy Who) Talks to the Panther.A year after meeting Bobby, Thunders tribe deci...

The Paleolithic diet, also known as the caveman diet, is a nutritional plan based on wild plant and animal based food sources. The dietary regiment mimics that of pre-agriculture hunter-gatherers. All humans consumed this diet in the Paleolithic era that began 2.5 million years ago and continued until 10,000 years ago when the development of agriculture introduced grain-based diets. The premise of Paleolithic eating is that humans are genetically adapted to the diet which every person cons...

This book reflects some of the fondmemories the author had of the area as itwas in 1949, and describes some of therapid changes that took place thereafter.The undeveloped area that extended fromhis house to the beach reminded himof the jungle in a Tarzan movie he oncesaw, and his imagination carried him onmany journeys of adventure through thosejungles, where he was master of his ownhappiness for that brief time in his l...

This book reflects some of the fond memories the author had of the area as was in 1949, and describes some of the rapid changes that took place thereafter. The undeveloped area that extended from his house to the beach reminded him of the jungle in a Tarzan movie he once saw, and his imagination carried him on many journeys of adventure through those jungles, where he was master of his own happiness for that brief time in his life.

According to Wikipedia: "John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic."