A rollicking treatise on human achievement and potential that offers the keys to perfecting our purpose: establishing Freedom for All.In All’s Well. Where Thou Art Earth and Why, John Lefebvre blends philosophy, metaphysics and ethics into an original, lyrical meditation on our place in the Universe, both the distance we have come and the much longer way before us.Lefebvre suggests that—at our core—we are the Unive...

Revised edition of Hock's award-winning Birth of the Chaordic Age, updated throughout and featuring two new chapters • The only first-person account of the rise of VISA, the world's largest business enterprise--in 2004, VISA’s products were used by more than a billion people at 20 million locations in more than 150 countries • Hock, VISA’s founder, details the revolutionary "chaordic" organizational philosophy that was instrumental in VISA’s success Hock skillfully weaves together the stor...

To his fellow conservatives, John Derbyshire makes a plea: Don't be seduced by this nonsense about "the politics of hope." Skepticism, pessimism, and suspicion of happy talk are the true characteristics of an authentically conservative temperament. And from Hobbes and Burke through Lord Salisbury and Calvin Coolidge, up to Pat Buchanan and Mark Steyn in our own time, these beliefs have kept the human race from blindly chasing its utopian dreams right off a cliff.Recently, though, v...

In his late teens and early twenties, Walter Mosley was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Drawing from this intimate knowledge of addiction and recovery, Mosley explores the deviances of contemporary America and describes a society in thrall to its own consumption. Although Americans live in the richest country on earth, many citizens exist on the brink of poverty, and from that profound economic inequality stems self-destructive behavior.In Twelve Steps to Political Revelati...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.At the end of the 20th century, public attention was focused on a deepening struggle grounded in two sharply divergent world-views and sets of values: that of corporate globalization and that of a newly emerging global movement. David Korten describes this period as a time of cultural awakening and places our present struggle in a larg...

“A humorous and at times brutally honest overview on many of the problems . . . that we presently endure through our political and cultural divide.”—Robert Steven Thomas, author of Intelligent InterventionAs disillusioned citizens across the planet take to the streets, do you wonder if the world’s nation states will ever get it right? Does anyone really think that politics is working—aside from those in power and behind it? What if living together in peace...

Synopsis"A Leaf That Floats Upstream"The theme throughout this writing is all about you and me, and it is about choice. Our planet, our environment and our society are reaching the point of no-return, if Earth and humanity are to have a future, a change in thinking and direction is urgent. YesterdayIt would first appear as if the author has assumed a position of superiority, has mounted a lofty dais solely, with the objective of raining condemnation and criticism down ...

It's too late for a makeover. What society needs now is something totally new.You've lost your home, been squeezed out of your life-long career, have limited access to your bank account and are wondering, what just happened? Is this America? You look around and realize a large portion of society is the same situation. How did this happen? And what can we do about it?Transition to Natural Law provides a navigable pathway to the absolute freedom Americans thought we always ha...

Human history doesn't evolve; it revolves, repeating itself over and over. Governments rule by laws. Even in a free country laws proliferate over time to overwhelm the population. Government ends up controlling everything and everyone. Freedom turns to despotism and people find themselves fleeing tyranny. Even the once great America, that bastion of liberty has descended into a bureaucratic tangle ruled by the phone and pen of a despotic ruler. Without the freedom that America once offered...

The United States Human Expedition if adopted by the government, would become a non-combative branch of service that would evolve into a functional check and balance upon money. It would be implemented domestically until established and proven effective against poverty, criminal and substance abuse statistics. This publication covers the need to separate corporation from state. Corporations were never meant to have rights or government influence.With the government engaged in marke...

A first in a series of books, from an author who wishes to remain anonymous, this book is like the first piece of a larger puzzle. Let the reader be aware, that the other pieces will follow to give a picture of the puzzle. Inspiration for it comes from a higher authority. If after going through a few chapters, the reader is not inspired, that they can make a difference as an individual or as a group, then the author has failed. The reading of it should start a fire in the belly and inspire...

"Well if you want to hear what most of us are thinking read this book.""This writer is spot on . . . making him one of the biggest dreamers in America at the present time. His writing is eloquent and concise."". . . every American not currently in the 1% should read this book and think hard about the ideas."The Essays for the 99% are the voice of the speechless, the dream of the hopeless, and the passion of the true Patrio...