Fermi's paradox is based on the argument that there are possibly 40 million to 80 million planets in our Galaxy which could be inhabited by high tech civilizations. The paradox is in the form of a question: if there are this many high tech civilizations, why haven't they contacted us? The answer is found in this essay.

Must Listen for Persons on Their Journey to Self-DiscoveryMaxwell Maltz once said, “You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.”We often ask ourselves various questions in our search to discover our purpose, questions like, ‘Who am I? Why did I come to this world? What for? How can I become the best version of myself?These questions, though intriguing, leave us in an unending sea of doubts and dismays as we struggle...

In Payback! Eric Esor, a former law enforcement agent, forensic specialist, and criminal investigator, following serious career-ending on duty injuries, is forced to change careers.Eric learns that his seventeen-year-old daughter, Briana, was raped by a person who prefers "chubby girls". Briana's protection from the "boogyman" is to be thin. She turns to an unhealthy peer group, an eating disorder, and experimenting with illegal methamphetamines.Briana is not forth...

Must Read for Persons on Their Journey to Self-DiscoveryMaxwell Maltz once said, “you can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.”We often ask ourselves various questions in our search to discover our purpose, questions like, ‘who am I? Why did I come to this world? What for? How can I become the best version of myself?These questions, though intriguing, leave us in an unending sea of doubts and dismays as we struggle to come up...

Ancient, medieval and modern, this book is a critical account of the historical, political and cultural roots of Zionism.Scrutinising the roots of the myths of Zionism and mobilising recent scholarship, John Rose shows how many of these stories, as with other mythologies, have no basis in fact. However, because Zionism is a living political force and these myths have been used to justify very real and political ends - namely, the expulsion and continuing persecution of the Palestin...

“Daniel Malka began with nothing. He earned everything by blood, sweat and tears. He won many championships for his club and for the national team. However, unexpected misfortune ruined his life.”What a Footballer! tells the story of a poor boy named Daniel Malka who got the opportunity to represent a football club and moved from extreme poverty to great riches. With an enriched lifestyle of money, fame, luxurious rides, and everything he desired, Daniel lived his...

John Rose Ficklen was a professor of history at Tulane and an historian of Louisiana. His History of Reconstruction in Louisiana was a long term project that he was assembling when he unexpectedly died in 1907.The book was polished and published by Ficklen's protege, Pierce Butler, in 1911. Ficklen's original study was the first work focused on Louisiana's Reconstruction, which had started earlier than most Southern states and was identified by Nordhoff, Bowers, and others as the ...

In the 3rd Pecos Quinn Western, I tip my hat to Zane Grey, with deep respect. He showed us that even amid the savagery of the buffalo hunts on the Great Plains, romance could be found. And when Pecos and Andy set out to rescue Doctor Burns, who'd been treating the Comanche, they find a mother and daughter desperately in need of help, thus adding spice to a dangerous task.

In 1540, Hernando de Soto and 600 Spanish conquistadors crossed the Savannah River into what is now South Carolina and thus entered the empire of the Chicora, the largest and most powerful Native American Civilization in the Southeast. Modern archaeologists have yet to find any trace of that once vibrant society. Although now considered a lost civilization, when the Spanish arrived, the Chicora were led by a beautiful queen and had a magnificent temple filled with the remains of their hono...

When a young girl is found dead of a botched abortion in the swimming hole of a small, rural amusement park, Roy Martin, the new Sheriff of Laurel County, takes it in stride. But the next day, after barely escaping death when someone fires four rounds of buckshot into his oncoming patrol car, Roy realizes this case is not only dangerous, it's personal.

Fancy Running is a guide to Fancy Dress Marathon Running written by Philip Rose, an experienced runner who has completed many marathons and holds a Guinness World Record for running the London Marathon. The book is a guide for novices and experienced runners and contains hints and tips on how to make the most of the experience of running in costume. It contains 13 chapters that take the reader on a journey from costume and race selection through training including both mindset and physical...

A young man in the California gold rush, on a mission to deliver supplies by mule train to the new miners in the rugged Yuba River Valley, must go after ruthless bounty hunters who kidnapped the party's Chinese cook with the intention of returning him to the cruel whaleboat captain from whose ship the cook fled when it docked in San Francisco.After getting information in the new boom town of Nevada City, the young man realizes he must catch the kidnappers before they reach the port...