Every January, thousands of tax preparers sit down at a desk they haven't touched since April and hope the muscle memory comes back fast.It doesn't always.The Seasonal Tax Preparer Survival Guide is for anyone who does tax work seasonally — a few months a year, then something else entirely — and has felt that particular kind of rust that comes from stepping away and coming back. Not the textbook rust, where you've forgotten the rules. The practical rust: where's the button,...

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us.This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psycholog...

Golf courses are a wild world of unexpected drama, exaggerated scores and stories, along with questionable fashion statements. Wilson's comedic examination of the game of golf and the course on which it is played will have you in stitches every time you play a round of golf. Play the links with Wilson's stories and insights in your mind, as you meet the entertaining, and occasionally idiotic characters who attempt to play the "sport of kings". These anecdotes and situations will remind you...

This book reads on a 8th to 9th grade level, making it a useful tool for students of all ages. It was created to bridge the gap between the text of The Book of Mormon and the reading and/or word comprehension and/or signing skills of many people.

Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to defeat and capture. She was put on trial for heresy and, on 30 May 1431, burned at the stake. Even today many people are fascinated by this teenage woman who persuaded her king to believe that she could lead her nation to victo...

In the depths of grief, Gregory of Nyssa pens a poignant eulogy for his beloved brother, Meletius, the Bishop of Antioch. Through lyrical prose and profound theological insights, Gregory explores the complexities of human mortality, the nature of the soul, and the hope of resurrection. As he weaves together personal anecdotes, biblical wisdom, and philosophical reflections, Gregory paints a vivid portrait of Meletius, a man of unwavering faith, unwavering compassion, and unwavering dedicat...

In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Upper Silesia was the site of the largest formal exercise in self-determination in European history, the 1921 Plebiscite. This asked the inhabitants of Europe’s second largest industrial region the deceptively straightforward question of whether they preferred to be Germans or Poles, but spectacularly failed to clarify their national identity, demonstrating instead the strength of transnational, regionalist and sub-national allegiances, an...

Discover Whispers of Winter: A Journey Through Snow-Covered MemoriesThe pulse of adventure syncs with the crunch of fresh snow underfoot in this enchanting compendium, "Winter's Playground: Timeless Tales of Snowy Recreation." It captures the essence of winter sports and the soul in each snowflake. Dive into the evolution of skiing and snowboarding, from subversive beginnings to global phenomena. Stand with hockey legends, tracing the sport from humble pond games to national pride....

It is during the Middle Ages that modern Europe, indeed, modern Western culture as we know it, comes to be. Classical Mediterranean culture drew from the ancient Middle East, and more directly, from the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans. The Middle Ages add the Northlands, Celts, and Germans, and ultimately, Slavs as well, to the mix. And the Middle Ages saw the birth of the immediate predecessors of our own ideas about love and marriage as important concerns in their own right, utterly central ...

The late Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), author of the Illuminatus Trilogy, the late Timothy Leary (1920-1996) and Jerry White (Cryonics) talk about physical immortality (life extension), living in space, exploring beyond the planet and a great deal more.

This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the war is remembered in both countries, including the demonisation of Japanese soldiers in postwar socialist-era Chinese movies, and the pervasive sense of victimhood in Japanese memories of the war. Ho...

Timothy Leary, the psychedelic maverick and mystic, and Robert Anton Wilson, author of Cosmic Trigger and The Illuminatus Trilogy and others discuss space migration, life extension, cyborgs and clones.