Escape the stressful debt cycle and build future wealth with simple personal finance routines that actually work. If money anxiety keeps you awake at night, this empowering guide transforms financial overwhelm into calm, capable control. You can stop feeling stuck and start making your money work for your everyday life without extreme sacrifice.By grouping small financial habits into automatic bundles, managing your modest income becomes a stress-free daily routine. You will finall...

Can justice prevail in the face of overwhelming racism?The election of 1869 was historic. For the first time, Black Texans went to the polls to vote. But many whites were unwilling to accept freedmen as social and political equals. They began plotting to reestablish white supremacy in the state by any means necessary.Aware of the looming threat, Samuel Dawson works to show that Blacks and whites can live together peacefully for the benefit of all. As his ideas are embraced ...

In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels.The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips's Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces—go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world's most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities (though they do...

Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic. Brian Phillips Murphy follows the collaborations between political leaders and a group of unelected political entrepreneurs, including Robert R. Livingston and Alexander Hamilton, who persuaded legislative powers to grant monopolies corporate status in order to finance and manage civic institutions. Murphy ...

First Published in 1942. Phillips has written an important study covering three areas: three areas: theoretical, empirical, and public policy. This book explores some of the explanations for and consequences of globalized production by transnational corporations. A review of the theoretical underpinnings of the reasons for corporate overseas expansion precedes a discussion of transnational corporation overseas production facilities. The literature reviewed supports the position that the ex...

Embark on a journey into the heart of true leadership with this transformative guide. Beyond administrative skill, it presents a holistic pathway to excellence, intertwining physical strength, mental clarity, emotional intelligence, and community. Discover how to align body and mind, fuel motivation, and nurture empathy. Within these pages, science meets philosophy, imparting tools for building inner sanctuaries and lasting empires, fostering a self-renewing leader whose influence echoes i...

Terrorism-political violence against civilians meant to inspire fear in a wider audience, usually carried out by non-state actors-has occurred for millennia and has been studied seriously by researchers since at least the 1970s. The attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequent wars have brought a considerable amount of attention to the topic in the ensuing decades. What Do We Know about Terrorism? addresses these developments, engaging with key topics such as definitions of terro...

An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive cultureIn a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that rea...

In Private Affairs, Phillip Brian Harper explores the social and cultural significance of the private, proposing that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial-and sexual-minority status. Ranging across cinema, literature, sculpture, and lived encounters-from Rodin's The Kiss to Jenny Livingston's Paris is Burning-Private Affairs demonstrates how the very concept of privacy creates personal and sociopolitical hierarc...

With a few exceptions, critical theorists have been late to provide a comprehensive diagnosis of neoliberalism comparable in scope to their extensive analyses of advanced welfare state capitalism. Instead, the main lines of critical theory have focused on questions of international justice which, while no doubt significant, restrict the scope of critical theory by deemphasizing linkages to larger political and economic conditions.Providing a critique of the Frankfurt School, Brian ...

Like it or not, our country’s future depends on Congress. The Founding Fathers made a representative, deliberative legislature the indispensable pillar of the American constitutional system, giving it more power and responsibility than any other branch of government. Yet today, contempt for Congress is nearly universal. To a large extent, even members of Congress themselves are unable to explain and defend the value of their institution.Why Congress takes on this challenge squarely...

The Hero's Journey has captured the attention of millions and has had an effect on filmmakers and authors for generations. But how might the familiar plot turns we see in Star Wars and The Matrix occur in the life of Jesus? The Heroic Christ examines the story of Jesus in Luke's Gospel through the contributions of Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey. The Call to Adventure, Supernatural Aid, the Ordeal, the Return--these and more are epic stages in the framework of a heroic narrative, and ...