Sense there's more to travel than meets the eye?A Travel Guide to Connection is your passport to the hidden layers and human stories in every destination – including your own home. Social anthropologist Dr. Jonathan Newman shares twelve key pathways to connect with others and gain a deeper understanding of different points of view.Why do tourists visit ancient cities?Are military arms fairs better holiday destinations?...

Humor, depression, anger, loss, and spiritual transcendence. David Jonathan Newman's first collection of poems, Pure Luck and Good Fury, artfully delves into the fragile state of the human condition. Provocative sentiment and satisfying imagery join forces to wage a war of words that is at once terrifyingly beautiful and painful. Pure Luck and Good Fury is a powerful first personal statement. The fire and grace of Newman's poems heralds a new era for contemporary American...

Jack Montgomery is a police officer who was always willing to help protect the citizens in his beat. But when the President dies and the rest of the federal government implodes under the weight of national debt, chaos ensues. Jack faces a new job: keeping those close to him alive. With several friends in tow, the choices they make will ultimately set the stage for a showdown against the self appointed mayor of a small town who will stop at nothing to recreate the welfare state.

As the modern world becomes more advanced, it becomes more technologically dependent; thus more fragile.Technology, however, is its 'Achilles heel' so to speak. As this technology becomes increasingly complex and refined, it becomes more vulnerable to an EMP attack. When an individual country relies on such frail, delicate electronic systems to run the economy, industry, and the military, it inevitably leaves itself open to its enemies. For whatever political reason or religious doc...

Most of us in this world live a survivable, if not comfortable and secure life. But what if our secure, comfortable civilization were swept away in a moment of unimaginable violence and horror, along with ninety percent of the earth's population and we found ourselves living in another one of history's darkest moments? Would we be able to muster the same tenacity, creativity and determination that motivated our ancestors to survive and continue? Children of the Apocalypse is a story about ...

Six years ago Civilization died under a hail of kinetic energy weapons, leaving the stunned survivors around the world to struggle through five years of almost continuous winter. Most people starved to death, many resorted to cannibalism but eventually starved to death anyway. Only a few survivors were prepared enough, strong enough, or ruthless enough, to survive the unending worldwide cold. Nobody survived unscathed.Now, in the sixth summer after the war, the sun has reappeared, t...

A worldwide event causes 99.9% of humanity to lose their sight. The remaining few try, in their lawful or unlawful ways, to survive. Technology like electric power continues for a time, but begins to fall apart as equipment fails and is not repaired.In the span of a few days, human society goes from the 21st century to a feudal or worse era. The little band that Grant McKenzie collects battles many adversities in their effort to get out of the city and find a safe haven.

A reedited and reformatted beloved classic story about one prepper’s apocalyptic journey and the continuing adventure of going home after a disaster. A solar storm has just unexpectedly hit Earth’s magnetosphere causing an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) event. An emergency manager visiting Atlanta, Georgia on a job interview must find his way back home penniless and unprepared after this Carrington Event stranded him far away from his vehicle and his beloved "bug out bag". With over one hundr...

SHEP ADAMS is miles from home when a mysterious electromagnetic pulse suddenly wipes out the electrical grid. The phones are dead. All the computers are down. Planes fall out of the sky. Cars skid to a halt. Life support switches off. The country is, effectively, stopped dead in its tracks.People are dying too. Or rather, they are killing one another. Brutally.The pulse doesn't just affect inanimate objects; it affects the electrical circuitry of people too. Large portions ...

America once a thriving and prosperous nation, now an empty decaying wasteland—everything changed in the blink of an eye. In Grid Down Reality Bites, a high-altitude nuclear blast causing an EMP (electrical magnetic pulse) destroys the power grid, catapulting life as they knew it, back to the 1800’s. The saga continues in Grid Down Perceptions of Reality (volume 2, part 3), A small band of survivors desperately struggle to survive the chaos that ensues. Now a post-apocalyptic world, they m...

~~America once a thriving and prosperous nation, now an empty decaying wasteland—everything changed in the blink of an eye. In Grid Down Reality Bites, a high-altitude nuclear blast causing an EMP (electrical magnetic pulse) destroys the power grid, catapulting life as they knew it, back to the 1800’s. The saga continues in Grid Down Perceptions of Reality (volume 2, part 2), A small band of survivors desperately struggle to survive the chaos that ensues. Now a post-apocalyptic world, they...

~~America once a thriving and prosperous nation, now an empty decaying wasteland—everything changed in the blink of an eye. In Grid Down Reality Bites, a high-altitude nuclear blast causing an EMP (electrical magnetic pulse) destroys the power grid, catapulting life as they knew it, back to the 1800’s. The saga continues in Grid Down Perceptions of Reality (volume 2, part 1), as Amy, Preston, Michael, Joe, and Jane desperately struggle to survive the chaos that ensues. Now a post-apocalypt...