Marx's 'Das Kapital' cannot be put into a box marked "economics." It is a work of politics history economics philosophy and even in places literature (yes Marx's style is that rich and evocative). Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners is an introduction to the Marxist critique of capitalist production and its consequences for a whole range of social activities such as politics media education and religion. 'Das Kapital' is not a critique of a particular capitalist system in a particular count...

In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter. Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reopened the case to ask ...

In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter. Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reopened the case to ask ...

Yale Templeton, an undistinguished professor of History at a university in Toronto, has made a shocking discovery: Abraham Lincoln was not, in fact, assassinated, but faked his own death so that he could assume a new identity and move to Canada. And the reason for Lincoln's ruse? Even more shocking. When the news breaks, the sitting President enlists his chief security officers to find the incriminating evidence and silence Templeton. Lincoln's Briefs is both a burlesque of university life...

A young woman discovers a sinister plot involving her parents who were part of a secret counterterrorist group. After trekking and finding the cabin of the father she never knew, she discovers a hidden object, the visor worn by her dad. She tries it on, with her DNA paired with her father's inside the visor. She is now imprinted with his ninja commando skills and memories. Unable to control these possessions, she must find her father's brother-turned-enemy to be trained in the way of the n...

With its authoritarian distortions, the Marxism of the 20th century sundered the connections between the practice of Communism, and its essentially democratic ethos.This book reconstructs those vital threads by turning to the work of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. In the wake of the rise of neoliberalism and the new global order that it ushered in, Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism asks: what form of political rule can facilitate the tran...

This is the third in a series of poetry books written by the author. The first poetry book by Michael Wayne was Memories a Crime of the Heart; second, Talking to Shadows; and now, Talking to the Wind. In this book, you will discover a few fictional short stories, but primarily, you will discover emotional sonnets written with care and compassion by the author to try and help him as well as others understand the complexities of life. Inside are stories set to poems of a life lived in doubta...

Robert Striker a retired ex-military man, whom in the middle of questioning his life, is approached by Margaret Peterson a beautiful, intelligent woman. Worried and frightened, she asked him to help solve the mystery of an ominous letter from her missing sister and a threatening phone call from a mysterious man. During his investigation Robert uncovers a conspiracy by desperate men trying to retrieve a black box that was stolen from their boss. As a romance blossoms between the two, the bo...

Out of place at an experimental high school, sensitive high school junior Bryce Hughes steals his father's pharmaceutical sales samples to stay steady and share recreationally with his wealthy, spoiled, nihilistic friends at their wild weekend parties. Hopelessly hung up on his ex-girlfriend, Paige, whose emotions are as fickle as her taste for fashion, Bryce can barely see the quiet scholarship girl, Jaycee, who adores him.Over the course of a single school year, Bryce and his cre...

Polarization. Division. Hate. Many Americans wonder how our politics became dysfunctional—and what it will take to fix it. Historian Michael Santos takes readers on a journey to the heart of the American nation and the values that have allowed us to overcome previous challenges, sometimes in spite of ourselves. He remembers the heroes and heroines who challenged us to be better versions of ourselves. Santos addresses a series of interrelated questions: What are the legacies of this country...

It is 1938, and deep inside a military hospital, an experiment called the White Door is searching for clues about out-of-body travel brought on by near-death experience. Everything is going fine until a lovable crew of German submariners are captured near the Golden Gate Bridge in a stolen U-boat and forced to become subjects of the experiment by a power-thirsty and villainous general.Sphere of Mercy follows one of the experiments doctors, a young psychologist named Jon Lafuank, wh...

The incomprehensible limitlessness of the cosmos, filled with unfathomable cognitions and endless possibilities; showing that even infinity can die. An immeasurable cosmological enigma, littered with multitudinous astronomical anomalies which subtly coruscate evanescent rays of incandescent twilight. Multifarious distant suns, gracefully shedding their fading memories; from another place in time…