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The rolling hills, picturesque barns, and winding country roads are calling you. Are you ready to go? Picture this: it's a crisp fall morning, and you're driving through the rolling hills of Vermont with the windows down. The air is filled with the sweet scent of maple and the sound of rustling leaves. As you wind your way through the quaint towns, you're greeted with an explosion of color. The trees are ablaze with vibrant oranges, yellows, and reds, and the scenery is nothing short of breathtaking.

A bundle of stories about my experiences in the ship yard and aboard tug boats as a young man.

Was it the captain's fault, as many said? Or did the company, the Coast Guard, and the American Bureau of Shipping all have a hand on the helm of the SS El Faro as she steered too close to Hurricane Joaquin? This is an examination of a tragedy that has been well-researched and investigated - heroically so at times - by the United States Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board. My main goal here is to show how the SS El Faro fit into a larger system and culture - one that I have been covering off and on as a journalist and author for 38 years. 

We are all indebted to Carl Watner for uncovering an unknown work by the great Lysander Spooner, one that managed to escape the editor of Spooner’s Collected Works. Both the title and the substance of “Vices are not Crimes” highlight the unique role that morality and moral principle had for Spooner among the anarchists and libertarians of his day. For Spooner was the last of the great natural-rights theorists among anarchists, classical liberals, or moral theorists generally.

In the new book, Earl and Charlotte introduce and cross-examine a set of societal influences or Framing Factors, which have a significant influence in the daily lives of Americans. The anti-humanitarian effects of several of these Framing Factors were amplified during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to exist at an elevated level today.

This step-by-step guide to self-fulfillment is a true self-help strategy and playbook. If you follow the steps laid out in the way described within, it will 100 percent change the content of your mind and, therefore, your perception of yourself and the world around you. By understanding how the mind is designed to work and using this knowledge to your advantage, you can consciously develop your mind to work for you, rather than against.

This audiobook is a discourse on the fundamentals for forecasting changes in price according to time.

Investing in both of these types of real estate can be lucrative and easy to get started, and this book will help you with both. As you listen, you will get the basics of both types of rentals that you can use to help yourself to successfully get through everything that you are doing.

If you have no intent for improving your life, Dr. Watson’s latest book Betting on Me: Revelatory Concepts for Success is not for you. In this upcoming release, Dr. Watson invites listeners into a reality where they control success. 

Have your poor habits gotten in the way of your career, relationships, or success? Has it prevented you from achieving your goals? Are you finding it difficult to seep back into your old habits pre-pandemic? Has it made others avoid being around you? Are you trying to change but don’t know where to start from? This audiobook has the answers to it all. We look at 15 practical and scientifically proven tips to build a new habit and eliminate an older, less appropriate one.

One of the last migratory American Indian tribes, the Tihanama people of Tennessee ranged from the Great Lakes to the Florida Panhandle. Other Southeastern peoples called them the Big Medicine tribe. They were known for their legends, antiquity, trail markings, knowledge of herbs, funeral ceremonies, songs, paints, and dyes. This collection by Donald Panther-Yates is as unique as its subject - there is no other like it. The Eighth Arrow story will completely alter your understanding of Native American spirituality. It may change your life.  

Discover key insights from Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey's Driven to Distraction in this audio summary.

Jay Heins’ debut poetry collection, Book of Hours, gently asks you to consider both small miracles and large tragedies. Inspired by medieval Christian illuminated manuscripts, Heins adapts this practice of pairing poetry with visual art into a nature-based secular kind of worship. These unconventional prayers are a devotional practice of gratitude juxtaposed with grief, meditations on how death informs life.

Did you know that the theme songs from I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched have lyrics? Did you know that Jeannie, the resident genie from the hit ‘60’s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, made magic by blinking her eyes? And did you know that Samantha Stephens, the lead character in the 60’s magical hit sitcom Bewitched was a squeaky-clean suburban house-witch who tried hard to abstain from twitching her nose and playing her witchy craft in order to please her uptight advertising executive husband, Darrin? 

What human beings have been endowed with, and children exhibit in its purest form, is every person’s constant companion through life: The flexibility and resilience to face an uncertain future and a world full of surprises. Put another way: Every human being has been endowed with the creative genius - yes, “genius”, as no other word would be adequate to describe the magnitude of the task and of the achievement - to construct frameworks for the purpose of understanding the world in which they reside.

New ways of creating wealth don’t come along very often and they usually bring with them new ways of doing things. It changes family dynamics and the way we carry out everyday life. Such a new wealth system is about to explode on the scene, brought about by a new civilization of consumers: those who shop on the internet. Today’s wealth “revolution” will not only replace old technologies, but it will also profoundly alter institutions as today’s traditional role economies change into knowledge economies.

We communicate with our cells in many different ways: prayer, meditation, yoga, music, poetry, exercise, running, cycling, walking, and many more ways. I will attempt to demonstrate that life’s adventure is the very medium that will let us live a wholesome, healthy life based on common sense and breakthrough pioneering research. Knowledge is part of the equation, so the more we know, the better informed we become to make those crucial decisions so important for good health.

Anxiety always has an objective basis. In those with anxiety-disorders, the problem is that the part of them responsible for action is damaged, making it impossible for them to discharge the anxiety that naturally develops and is ordinarily worked off in the course of healthy action.

A relaxing collection of spiritual, romantic, and sexual poems to redirect your thoughts to the important things in life.

In a fascinating rumination, Edward G. Simmons combines a lifetime’s experiences and biblical research in a voice that is as comfortable and welcoming as if one was seated in an easy chair in his study. With his fierce intellect and honesty, Simmons layers his philosophical lessons with personal insights and the latest discoveries of science.