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Tackle your thorniest problems using the wise fool's savvy strategies! The wise fool is the archetypal contrarian known for his creativity, irreverence, and humor. He looks at life in unorthodox ways and pushes back against the status quo. Throughout history, powerful decision-makers (Egyptian pharaohs, Chinese emperors, Persian sultans, and European kings) consulted wise fools to question the assumptions that kept them mired in stale and obsolete solutions.

In a world where international threats of terrorism focuses the attention oversees, the threat of domestic insurgency grows stronger every day. While the world watches in horror, the reality of homegrown discontent boils over and rocks the foundation of the free world. A devastating assassination sends the United States into a tailspin, exposing the harsh realities of a divided and unsettled population. Racial strife and political discord reach its breaking point, and insurrection threatens to tear the fabric of democracy apart.

Este libro es una reflexión crítica sobre la cultura mexicana contemporánea. Se han elegido los lugares comunes del carácter del mexicano: se trata de un manojo de estereotipos codificados por la intelectualidad, pero cuyas huellas se reproducen en la sociedad, provocando el espejismo de una cultura popular de masas. Estas imágenes sobre "lo mexicano" no son reflejo de la conciencia popular (suponiendo, cosa que se duda, que dicha conciencia exista como entidad única y homogénea).

In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state, the environment and other ways of life? What does modern marriage look like? What is Enlightenment, and how has its inheritance made itself known? How should we approach religion, evil and death? What explains the rise of totalitarianism, and how should we respond to nihilism?

The objective of the defending fielding team is to stop the opposing team’s players from scoring the runs, and also to stop the runners' advance around the bases during the game. A run is scored when a runner legally proceeds around the bases in order and manages to touch the “home plate”. The home plate is where the player began as a batter. The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.

In 2020, COVID-19 a.k.a. "coronavirus" began and became newsworthy during the early part of that year. This was the beginning of a shift for mankind worldwide. COVID/corona was the start that created change affecting everyone’s life in every way imaginable. These citizens were losing their rights, which happened with little to no resistance. When citizens lost their rights, governments worldwide were in total control and used the media to keep that control.

After an EMP destroys the nation's power grid, a family's strength is put to the test. With food and water in short supply, people scramble to secure resources. As the crisis unfolds, one family seeks sanctuary at a ranch on the city's outskirts. For Gabby, the only thing worse than failing to reach the ranch is failing to protect her family in this dangerous post-EMP world.

In this short book, Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects.

When Agent Tori Hunter is urgently called to the murder scene of Dan and Heidi Newman, she finds their throats slit and Dan tied up: forced to watch his wife lose her life. Tori’s first thought is for their 17-year-old daughter, Cara, who is nowhere to be found. Will this popular young girl be the next victim? A broken bracelet is the one clue left at the scene, but the team is running in circles until Tori finally tracks down Cara hiding in the woods. Sobbing, the devastated girl says all she remembers is a flash of a man’s face as she was chased through the forest.

Pangaea is a time that happened nearly 300 million years ago when the Earth was at an estimated age of 3.5 billion years. Pangaea is when all the continents were combined into one landmass, and this was surrounded by the only ocean at the time, which was called Panthalassa. All forms of life on land lived together in Pangaea at that time.

As it is with all stories, there is an origin. Events that happen now will have consequences for the future. At this point, all of Pangaea is still one continent. Dinosaurs were the most dominant of all species, both on the land and below the waters of Pangaea before Magic. Some of the creatures living in the Ocean can live both on land and in water. No Clans have been formed and declared yet.

The story of Eko and Indra picks up a few weeks after the exciting events of The Perfect Season when the Suparman brothers had their first perfect baseball season. They upheld their undefeated streak in both the regular season and the World Series Playoffs for the Albuquerque Conquistadors’ first season. The older of the identical twins, Eko translates to the “Oldest One”, while Indra literally means “The Strong One". Now 20 years of age, each standing eight feet, eight inches tall, the Suparman brothers are as close to supermen as you can get.

The world has returned to the Steam Age. Incensed by cross-border raids from England, the Scots decide it's time to march on London. The English army heads north to stop them and MI6 send Harry Lampeter to report on the hostilities. General Malina’s American peacekeepers arrive as the battle for York begins. In between amorous entanglements, Harry discovers the Americans have a hidden agenda: the invasion of Europe. Meanwhile, Harry’s friend, Telford Stephenson, has joined the Scottish Air Force and is enjoying his own adventures.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Precious Times Alone with My Lord Jesus and learn how to draw Christians close to God, what he is doing in the author's life and should also be doing in yours, and how to gather Christians together.

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.

Jag jobbar ensam. Jag kanske är den bästa tjuven i världen men ingen kommer någonsin att veta någonting om mig. Eller ja, nästan ingen. För en livstid sedan hade jag en mentor, Angela. Hon lärde mig att bli kriminell, hur man genomför riktigt stora jobb. Och nu, sex år efter att hon dumpade mig under ett jobb i Kuala Lumpur, skickar hon ett SOS till mig. Jag tror åtminstone att det är från henne. Och är det så, måste jag dit. Det är jag skyldig henne. Snart sitter jag på ett plan till Macau, antingen för att träffa en vän eller för att gå rakt i en fälla. Eller båda på samma gång.

As Roger Lytollis travels Britain, he encounters a man at Liverpool's Beatles statue convinced that Rod Stewart was in the Fab Four. In Edinburgh, he walks into a row over Greyfriars Bobby's nose, and in Glasgow, learns why the duke of Wellington wears a traffic cone on his head. London brings a controversial nude statue and some hard truths about racism. On a Pedestal is the first book to examine public statues around the nation.

This is a true biographical story of a young lawyer, Roger Lawrence, who came from a solid middle-class background. He had a consuming fire to grab the brass ring and join the country's power elite.

Roger Michael Morello grew up in a broken home, dysfunctional family, and without a father. With no college degree, battling drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and a devastating betrayal that would shake him to the core, he had many odds stacked up against him in life. Diesel Spirit is his story of overcoming struggle and adversity, together with a collection of his thought provoking insights, written based on and inspired by his story of overcoming the odds to become the accomplished real estate entrepreneur he is today.