The Last Amendment by T. A. Miller (21 Reviews)    Price verified 5 minutes ago

After a severe illness leaves nine-year-old Bee Scattercorn deaf, her grandfather Bart, a grizzled late-career American politician, presents her with a diary. His hope is that the heartfelt offering will compel Bee, his Songbird, to write and, in so doing, sustain her spirit. As she matures, Bee embraces her grandfather's gift and chronicles via journal entries and poignant letters her increasing separation from the five senses world. With the U.S. suffocating under toxic partisanship, Bart retires from the House of Representatives, but not before offering a radical, last-ditch solution: permanently divide the country by ideology so that freedom might survive. To Bart's surprise, and eventual lament, the notion takes root and a constitutional amendment is employed to raise two entirely new nations - one purely conservative, one purely liberal - from America's ashes. An adult now, Bee is drawn into her grandfather's chance crusade, pouring herself into the historic work of bisecting the nation. But Bee is soon haunted and consumed by a mysterious connection to her colleague Joe, his life and hers seemingly linked - intricately, impossibly - through ages past. Her grandfather's life expiring, Bee grows desperate for understanding. With the intrigues and dangers of this second (perhaps not-so-unlikely) American revolution reaching their apex, Bee sets out to prove that her mystic connection to Joe is no mere peculiarity, but rather somehow someway the root of her life's purpose.

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Stoic Philosophy for Beginners: Simple Strategies to Build an Unbreakable Core, Withstand Life’s Toughest Tests, Discover the Power of Pausing ... by CalmLogic Press (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Discover how you can use timeless Stoic wisdom to transform your life -- in no time! Do you find yourself feeling utterly lost amidst the chaos of modern life... and struggling to find your footing -- and your place -- in these uncertain times? Has stress become your second nature... to the point that you get anxious when you don't have a hundred and one thoughts racing through your mind? Do you wish you had some form of guidance to help you navigate the twists and turns of life's labyrinth? If you want to take back the reins and steer your life in a different (and better) direction, then you don't need to look any further because your solution is here! Stoicism is your compass for personal evolution. And by devoting a few minutes each day to take the words of Seneca and the other philosophers to heart, you'll be well on your way to self-discovery and meaningful change within you, in the same time it takes you to drink your morning coffee Start with this practical and easy-to-follow guide to cracking the code to serenity, resilience, and personal development you never thought possible Here's just a fraction of what you'll discover: • Quick and easy ways to embrace Stoic wisdom... and get one step closer to becoming your ideal self through the VIRTUE method • A beginner-friendly introduction to what Stoicism means, the values it upholds, and the great minds behind it • How to never let your emotions or your fears get the better of you again • The key to taking charge of your life -- and bearing full responsibility for every choice you make along the way • How to convince yourself to not give up even when nothing seems to be going your way... and use failure as fuel for your success • Tried-and-tested ways to come to terms with your fate, and make the most out of the cards you're dealt with • The secret to figuring out what truly matters in life, and not being controlled by the desire for power, glory, or material possessions • How to ...

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The Complete Patriot's Guide to Oligarchical Collectivism: Its Theory and Practice by Ethan Indigo Smith (21 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

The Complete Patriot's Guide defines four types of people in the world based on their reaction to information. 1.Idiots 2.Zealots 3.Elitists 4.Patriots The namesake of The Complete Patriot's Guide is 1984. The book within the book 1984 proposes there are three types of people in the world. The four different modes of thinking are explored using universal concepts including Jungian theory, Genesis, The Wise Monkeys, Socratic philosophy and more. The book within the book is supposed to have presented a formula for individual empowerment, only Winston Smith is never able to read its entirety. This is the nonfictionalized real world version, with the complete formula for political empowerment. The Complete Patriot's Guide to Oligarchical Collectivism is nonfiction version of the book within the book 1984, by George Orwell. The Guide explores metaphors and symbolism in the fictional book 1984 through real history, philosophy and contemporary politics. The Guide relates the fictional ideas in 1984 to contemporary institutional arrangement as well as philosophies toward individual empowerment. "Institutions are not individuals."

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Probing Freewill: A Story of Autonomy and Inevitibility by Waleed Mahmud Tariq (7 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

"Probing Freewill: A Story of Autonomy and Inevitability" is a comprehensive exploration of the concept of free will, its implications, and the debates surrounding it. This book is structured into five distinct parts, each delving into different aspects of free will: • Tracing the Origins of Free Will: This section examines the evolutionary foundations of free will, the role of genetics and the environment, the concept of nature via nurture, and the cognitive machinery driving our choices. • The Neurobiology of Choice: This part focuses on the brain's role in decision-making, including brain regions, neural networks, neurotransmitters, hormones, and the impact of cognitive biases and external constraints on our choices. • Morality, Responsibility, and the Lack of Freewill: Here, the book explores the relationship between free will, morality, and responsibility. It discusses the impact of the absence of free will on moral judgments, laws, and societal structures. • The Philosophy of Free Will: This section takes a philosophical approach, tracing historical perspectives, modern debates, and the ethical repercussions of a world without free will. • Navigating a Life Without Choices: The final part addresses the practical aspects of living in a deterministic world. It discusses finding meaning and purpose, psychological well-being, redefining freedom, coping strategies, and practical wisdom for living meaningfully without free will. The book aims to offer a new perspective on the age-old debate of free will versus determinism, blending scientific evidence with philosophical discourse. It challenges readers to question and reconsider their assumptions about autonomy, identity, and choice. The exploration is intended to be introspective and transformative, encouraging a deeper understanding of the human experience. The significance of this book lies in its multifaceted approach, combining neuroscience, philosophy, morality, legal systems, and mental ...

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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (Landmark Video Games) by Bernard Perron (University of Michigan Press) (130 Reviews)    Price verified 10 minutes ago

Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the Silent Hill series one of the major landmarks of video game history.

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Existence & Consciousness: A Theory of Naturalistic Idealism by Richard Lucido (28 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Existence and Consciousness presents us with a world without space, a world that consists only of information, consciousness, and time. It offers a theory of idealism from an existentialist perspective. Matter, energy, and space are viewed as holding on to no existence outside of their essence (i.e., their defining properties). This is what precludes them from objectively persisting in time. Only consciousness, broken down into its smallest units, is capable of existing beyond its essence. This is what makes it a necessary constituent of reality, for without it the world would be merely an abstraction. Free of new age spiritualism, Existence and Consciousness is a sober and naturalistic attempt at conceptualizing a reality whose primary constituent is consciousness. The book presents its original insights within a broad multidisciplinary backdrop where ideas from contemporary analytical philosophy, existential philosophy, and ancient philosophy are related to empirical findings from psychology, physics, and neuroscience. Its ideas are presented plainly and are intended for a broad educated audience. No prior experience is necessary to engage with this most perplexing and fundamental question: what is the nature of reality? This second edition is updated to include empirical findings that have occurred since the original version was published in 2017.

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CREEP: A Short Psychological Thriller by William Cook (King Billy Publications) (85 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

A dark story of a young woman's date with death! CREEP is a short psychological thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Serial Killers don't always get away with murder, no matter how hard they try. Includes bonus short story - Legacy. From CREEP: "Cassandra pounded on the window and frantically tried to push the rear doors open, first with her shoulders and then with her heels, to no avail. She peered into the dark confines of the garage and saw nothing except her frightened reflection looking back at her in the window, bathed in the dim yellow interior light of the cab. She cupped her neatly manicured hand across her brow and looked out the window again, her button nose touching the smeared glass as she did so. She thought she heard a deep growling noise somewhere nearby outside the cab and then her window was filled with bared teeth and the blackest, evil eyes, she'd ever seen. The huge head of the Rottweiler retreated into the shadows before launching itself back at the vehicle, the razor sharp canines crunching against the window and sending a trail of cracks across the glass. Steaming froth and saliva dripped down the webbed glass as the dog began to bark and thud its massive head against the side of the cab. Cassandra scuttled across the back seat as she wet herself, waves of fear shrinking her into a ball, as the crazed dog leaped at the cab again... " "William Cook tells a gruesome story with a sense of authenticity that makes you question with considerable unease if it really is fiction, after all." - Graham Masterton, author of The Manitou and Descendant "This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved Blood Related. Ordinarily I hate serial killer stories, but William Cook won me over. He is a unique and ...

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How to Become President: A Practical Handbook by Felix Petitzon (11 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

From classical basis through to contemporary examples, expert Felix Petitzon clinically analyses which steps successful candidates undertook to reach the presidency. Witty, yet serious - this manual outlines how to achieve the highest office. It is the 21st century equivalent of Machiavelli The Prince; not eschewing controversial methods, the author sets morality aside and focuses on what is required to win.

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Handbook for the Anti-Islamic Resistance by George R. Walters (12 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

It is not just rhetoric to note that a state of war between Islam and the non-Muslim world already exists. Islam is and for nearly its entire history been at war with the non-Muslim world. Thus a defacto state of war exists regardless of the lack of or confused and ineffective response from the those being attacked. For more and more of us the need for an international anti-Islamic resistance is self evident. Many of us already recognize that the Islamic ideology is fascism in a religious context. Islam benefits only a small and brutal oligarchy. Islam is also an existential threat to all non-Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Bahai's, atheists, agnostics, etc. That threat is becoming increasingly aggressive and will continue to do so in the future. Unfortunately, despite the fact that ordinary Muslims do not benefit from the Islamic ideology, the record of the non-Islamic world in turning back growing Islamic influence and eventual takeover has been dismal in most cases. Clearly more must be done if we are reverse this ominous trend. To many of us the absolute necessity of resistance to the Islamic ideology and its agenda of global conquest is so self-evident that it hardly bears repeating. Unfortunately, however, it has not been in the interests of even the non-Muslim elites and the media that service those elites to admit the obvious. As a result we must necessarily address and re-address truths that may be instinctively and widely held by many, if not most. Of course those truths, no matter how well documented, will be vigorously denied by Islamists, their "useful idiots," and those who are either willfully ignorant or seeking advantage from enabling Islamist conquest. Yet even if Western governments finally admit the obvious and attempt to address the threat to our societies posed by Islam, success is far from guaranteed. This is both because Western societies present such a variety of targets and the "rules of engagement" that governments ...

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We'll All Be Murdered in our Beds: The shocking history of crime reporting in Britain by Duncan Campbell (78 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

'If it bleeds, it leads' - this maxim is as true now as it was 300 years ago. Crime is the staple of the news, and our appetite for these dark and dangerous stories shows no sign of abating. In this colourful history of crime reporting since 1700, Duncan Campbell reveals what it's really like to deal with murderers, gangsters, robbers, cat burglars, victims, informers and detectives. He introduces us to the 'hacks in the macs' and the 'Murder Gang', who would go to any lengths to get a story - and serve it up to an ever-eager reading public. At a time when the relationships between the press, public, police and criminals are being questioned as never before, We'll All Be Murdered in Our Beds tells the compelling, sometimes scandalous tale of the stories and storytellers that have entertained, shocked and appalled us - and will continue to do so. Praise for We'll All Be Murdered in Our Beds: 'Duncan Campbell remains one of the very few journalists who has retained the criminal fraternity's trust and respect... He is engagingly clever and writes like a dream' - Howard Marks, author of Mr Nice 'When it comes to stellar crime reporting, Duncan Campbell is the absolute maestro. He captures the colour of the courts, the drama of events and the lives of those who appear there, in the most elegant and authentic way. A fascinating read' - Helena Kennedy, QC Duncan Campbell is former crime correspondent of the Guardian, former chairman of the Crime Reporters' Association and winner of the Bar Council's newspaper journalist of the year. He has written for the Observer, New Statesman, LRB, Oldie, Esquire and British Journalism Review. He has presented Crime Desk on BBC Radio 5 Live and the Radio 4 documentary Bandits of the Blitz, has appeared on the Today programme, LBC radio and numerous TV documentaries, and has lectured widely on crime reporting. He is the author of seven books including the bestselling The Underworld and an acclaimed crime novel, If ...

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Foliage: An International Banking Spy Thriller (A Louise Moscow Novel Book 1) by Lorraine Evanoff (230 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALIST, HISTORICAL FICTION NEW APPLE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK, NOTABLE INDIE AWARD READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD FINALIST Investment banker Louise Moscow is sexy, brazen and fearless in business and in love. With a high-profile dream job wooing rich clientele in late 1980s Paris, she enjoys a lavish lifestyle in a glamorous city. When she stumbles upon criminal activity at her company, the FBI and CIA force her to cooperate and bring down the underhanded bankers in what turns out to be one of the greatest scandals of the twentieth century. Perfect for fans of Erik Larson, Jack Slater and Kathy Reichs, Foliage: An International Banking Spy Thriller (A Louise Moscow Novel Book 1) is the first installment in this highly addictive, suspenseful thriller series by award-winning author Lorraine Evanoff. Buy Foliage today and discover an exciting new mystery you won't be able to put down. What readers are saying about Foliage: - "Great read, beautifully written, I highly recommend." ~ Matthew J. Dowd, Chief Political Analyst, ABC News - "It starts off fast and keeps you hooked." ~ Nelle L'Amour, New York Times Bestselling Author - Evanoff does her homework, and is able to deliver complex material in a light and readable fashion." ~ Patrick "Ubercritic" McDonald, Hollywood Chicago Magazine

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