"The Kid" tells us about the planet Apex, and how it became extremely polarized over the years until it looked a lot like our planet Earth does today – so polarized that nuclear war eventually made the planet's surface uninhabitable and forced its humanoid population underground where they went through drastic changes to their bodies, including losing the ability to feel any emotions. The nuclear war also caused Apex to change positions in our galaxy, winding up in the constellation of Zet...

Initial remote sensing survey at Tlachtga, Co. Meath in 2011–12 highlighted the presence of multiple, partially overlapping phases of enclosure at the site. Three subsequent seasons of excavation provided critical interpretive evidence, with over 15,000 fragments of animal bone, human remains, charred plant material, evidence of metalworking, and a hoard of Anglo-Saxon silver coins dating to the late 10th century AD.The main activity at the site spans four broad periods and two mai...

There is a war on truth and the liars are winning. Truthteller is an essential guide to how governments and corporations cover up murder, corruption and catastrophe. It’s for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to know the facts not fake news.

The Civil War's Atlanta campaign rages on following A Long and Bloody Task: "More than informative . . . challenges simplistic caricatures of Hood and Sherman" ( The Civil War Monitor).John Bell Hood brought a hang-dog look and a hard-fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one of the ablest division commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia, he found himself, by the spring of 1864, in the war's Western...

TV news-anchor Sarah Hathaway's teenage daughter is killed in a mass school shooting. Like any parent, she is determined to find out why a 16-year-old boy would take an assault rifle and murder his friends and classmates. She knows more gun control cannot be the only answer.In a surprising move, the District Attorney charges the shooter's parents with criminal negligence – for allowing their son unfettered access to the M16 – and as accomplices to the murders.Sarah finds the ...

As a repository for old soldiers’ writings, the National Tribune is unequaled yet remains mostly unused. Indeed, it is so good one might call it the Confederate Veteran for Billy Yank.From 1877 to 1943, the National Tribune served as a compendium for Union veteran reminiscences, war yarns, and postbellum reflections. The firsthand treasure-trove began as an eight-page monthly newspaper in 1881 and within a few years it became a weekly. The Washington-base...

In Book One, The Kid promised to take a look at some of the systems we live with every day on Earth that are no longer working very well and make some suggestions about how they could be fixed, like our government/political system, our judicial system, our education system, our health care/health insurance system, and our economic system. This is that book, with radical suggestions to surprise you

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta—ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks—this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20...

The Really Real Mother Goose reexamines some of the best-known nursery rhymes, pointing out the true lessons to be learned.

This is a story of mysterious, magical events overtaking a sleepy Dorset village, of a young man whose crippling injuries have given him unexpected powers, of a noble dragon, a wizard reincarnated, a terrible burden and a frightening responsibility. Beautifully told, The Merlin Legacy will delight anyone who would like to believe that there is more to the forces of nature than science can tell us.

"Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise" ( The Civil War Monitor).Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union's western armies, eyed Atlanta covetously—the South's last great untouched prize. "Get into the interior of the enemy's country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can...

A decorated firefighter's memoir about his defiance of a controversial order that ignited a worldwide parenting and leadership movement, The Raising Alphas Project."For my decision to defend my firefighters, I was thrown into a fiery furnace. I survived because the Fire inside me burned brighter than the fires around me."In 2021, Chief Officer Stephen Davis of Orange County Fire Rescue of Central Florida refused to reprimand his personnel over a Covid-19 va...