Contents: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon Utopia by Thomas More Utilitarianism byJohn Stuart Mill On Liberty by John Stuart Mill An Answer to the Question What is Enlightenment by Immanuel Kant The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran A Confession by Leo Tolstoy Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton The Madman, His Parables and Poems by Kahlil Gibran On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"Bowen writes with knowledge and wit, tongue in cheek or rudely protruding. His cat-and-mouse corporate thriller zips merrily to a high-speed conclusion."— Publishers WeeklyWhen shadowy gray market hustler and aspiring crony capitalist Jerzy Schroeder is murdered while Josie Kendall is hitting him up for a million dollars to help cash in on alternative energy funding, the police suspect her of adultery and her husband, Rafe, of homicide. Josie, who works f...

What if humanity could disown the 20th Century? In Book I of The Grand Discourse Trilogy, author Eli Bonner buys a historic home on Pensacola Bay where he inadvertently meets a French ghost in the form of a 5-year-old girl who constantly returns to the home looking for something. In an effort to learn more about her, he organizes a séance and receives an impossible task from a celestial parliament called “Le Grand Discours.”

Authors Michael Bowen and Anthony Bartley have long known how important data literacy is to informed citizens. But after years of leading workshops on data literacy, they saw just how intimidated teachers can be at the prospect of helping students make sense of sets they have collected.In response, Bowen and Bartley wrote this guide—the ideal book for teachers with little or no statistics background. With its informal tone and easy-to-grasp examples,The Basics of Data Literacy

A sea monster, terrible with its snake-like appearance, rises from the deep water, then vanishes into the great depth of Spirit Lake. Sheriff Jeff McQuede is called in to investigate the death of Evan Spence, multi-millionaire and owner of Spirit Lake Resort, recently found dead when his boat crashed into rocks. Instead of leaving his vast fortune to his son, Oliver, Spence has formed a trust which includes seven members. Spirit Lake has long been rumored to be the home of a mysterious lak...

The concepts of Murray Bowen, one of the founders of family therapy and the originator of family systems theory, are brought together here in an integrative fashion.Michael Kerr (who worked with Bowen for many years) and Bowen propose that the enormously complex task of evaluating a clinical family can be orderly when it is grounded in family systems theory.Using family diagrams and case studies, the book is devoted to an elegant explication of Bowen theory...

You’re not alone—and you don’t have to rely on harsh medications or one-size-fits-all advice that never seems to work. Healing cystic acne is your ultimate guide to uncovering the root causes of breakouts and transforming your skin from the inside out using a research-backed, holistic approach. Unlike other skincare books, this guide doesn’t just throw generic tips at you—it gives you a step-by-step guide for healing your skin with cutting-edge, safe, and natural modalities that actually w...

Foreign Service veteran Richard Michaelson knows that it is often better to talk to secretaries than big wigs in the political jungles of Washington, DC. But when one such ambitious young secretary turns up dead in a locked hotel room, Michaelson suddenly realizes just how much she knew...and that the killer might now be after him. Now everyone is clamoring to get their hands on the mysterious document in the dead woman's possession. Soon investigators, staffers and liaisons are coming out...

Listen to the shocking story that the media have ignored and covered up. In 2007, two Israeli news publications, Israel Today and News First Class reported that the most famous Rabbi in Israel's modern history, 108-year-old Yitzhak Kaduri, had left a cryptic death note revealing the name of the long-awaited Messiah. Within a year after the rabbi's death, the note was reported to have been verified as authentic by some of Kaduri's closest followers and then placed on Kaduri's own website (K...

The hunt is on! Who will find Max Rigby’s gold?Enterprising Boyd Archer decides to purchase and renovate the old ghost town of Galva, Wyoming, site of the once prosperous Galva Gold Mine. During the mine’s heyday, a strongbox filled with gold and jewelry was stolen in a stagecoach robbery by Max Rigby, the vicious Black Mountain Bandit. This treasure is rumored to be hidden somewhere on his rugged, mountain property. As a promotional stunt, in the spirit of fun, Archer advertises a hunt fo...

Government openly defies the law, Christians are prosecuted as criminals, children "transition" to the opposite sex, the president supports our enemies―and 130 million Americans depend on mind-altering substances just to get through life. Turbocharged by the Obama presidency, long-coalescing forces of the political and cultural Left are bringing about their much-heralded “fundamental transformation of America.” That much everyone knows. But this revolution is also causing a fundamental tra...

You've heard about the courageous young investigators who covertly videotaped officials of ACORN advocating illegal activities. Now, get ready for an undercover expose even more daring: a six-month penetration of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations that resulted in the collection of thousands of pages of smoking-gun documents from this terror-supporting front group for the dangerous, mob-like Muslim Brotherhood. This is what Muslim Mafia delivers. It has all the elem...