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In Kids Don’t Need School, veteran homeschool parents and community leaders Jonathan and Adriana Prescott lay out a radical new approach to home education that empowers children to love learning, build real-world skills, and take charge of their future—all before age 12.

They call you a fake because you’re the best. Being called a fake is the last rite of passage on the internet. In the relentless pursuit of excellence, you only know you’ve arrived when you have “haterz”—your most valuable marketers. So Good They Call You a Fake is how you get there. This book teaches step-by-step with no steps skipped how to get the visibility you’ve already earned, become an energy monster who thrives on all kinds of attention, and then monetize that attention to the max.

Rousseau’s discourse on inequality is a fierce criticism of modernity. He traces the journey of humanity from its origin and distinguishes two types of inequality: the natural (or physical) and the moral. The natural inequality stems from differences in age, health, or other physical factors while moral inequality is established by the community.

"Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head" is a report by Dr John M Harlow on the case of Phineas P. Gage who survived an accident in 1848 in which an iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for the injury's reported effects on his personality - friends considered him “to be no longer Gage." The author states that the case serves to show the wonderful resources of the system in enduring the shock and overcoming the effects of so frightful a lesion....

"What The Moon Brings" takes place in a surreal dreamscape. The narrator strolls through his garden at night and sees strange things in the moonlight. He comes to a stream which turns into a river and brings him to a sea. What he sees then, makes him plunge into the water to escape it, even at the cost of his life.

This horror story takes place on Tempest Mountain in the Catskills, around an old abandoned Dutch mansion of the Martense family. The narrator’s every effort to solve the mystery leads to the death or disappearance of his companions. Finally he discovers that the family had mutated into murderous monsters through centuries of inbreeding.

"To Kill a Man" by Jack London (1876-1916) is a story about an intruder being caught by one of the inhabitants of a house. An interesting conversation ensues. At the end, the intruder shames the woman who had held him captive for a while.