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What happens when the United States is pushed into the horrors of race war? How do supporters of color-blind individualism battle heroically against violent racists of every kind? How does the struggle for America's soul end? Reckoning tells that story. The story takes place in Brooklyn, NY. Jewish bigots and black nationalists clash amidst bitter racial tensions. Into this seething cauldron enters Mick Davidson, Brooklyn-born but now an Israe...

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When you need help understanding a book, choose the name you've trusted for years-CliffsNotes. Gain the understanding you need with our in-depth literature study guides, and get more from every book you read.CliffsNotes on Rand's Atlas Shrugged is your guide to author Ayn Rand's masterpiece, an impassioned defense of the freedom of man's mind. She shows that without the independent mind, our society would collapse into primitive savagery.Delve...

The current school system churns out millions of illiterates and mental zombies-but here's how we're going to fix it, starting today.Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents across the nation grapple with a new and horrifying understanding of just how bad our educational system has become. Absurdly complicated and illogical mathematical instruction? Check. Dumbed-down reading and writing assignments? Check. Lazy and uneducated teachers? Ch...

The Brooklyn Stories is a collection of tales chronicling varied characters in sizzling conflicts regarding major values. For example: ¿Will a philosophy professor overcome heartbreak and anger at romantic betrayal to collaborate with his triumphant rival on writing the novel they both cherish? Can a high school teacher and former Marine, reared in a criminal family, protect from that family's murderous intent his innocent best friend? Can a b...

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Originally published as The Myth of Stress, this revolutionary 7-step program will help change how you think about stress and show you how to easily transform and eliminate stressful thoughts from your personal and professional life.Where does stress come from? Financial worries? Health issues? Conflicts at work or at home? For more than half a century, we've been told that stress is caused by outside pressures and that the best we can do is t...

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There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors'proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspiresto far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-'50srevolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabricof an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous '60s and'70s, he was at the heart of the mae...

There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors'proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspiresto far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-'50srevolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabricof an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous '60s and'70s, he was at the heart of the mae...

The US is facing enormous challenges as it enters the second decade of the twenty-first century

Bernstein's volume is an outstanding guide to understanding the nature of stress and how to handle it'Aaron T Beck, MD, Founder of Cognitive Therapy'Andrew Bernstein has brought some much-needed common sense to the subject of stress and that alone makes this book a winner' Caroline Myss, author of Defy Gravity and Invisible Acts of PowerWhat is stress? Where does it come from? And is it possible to live without it?In The End of Stress, Andrew ...

This CliffsNotes study guide on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Atlas Shr...

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When 86-year-old pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein met Ethan Hawke, international film star, at a dinner party, the two quickly discovered they shared a common malady: stage fright. Based on his familiarity with nervousness prior to concerts, Seymour was able to provide Ethan with invaluable insight and advice. That was the beginning of a deep friendship. Renowned spiritual scholar and activist Andrew Harvey was a fellow dinner guest that ...

The Capitalist Manifesto defends capitalism as the world's most moral and practical social system. This book is written for the rational mind, whether the reader is a professional intellectual or an intelligent layman. It makes the case for individual rights and freedom in terms intelligible to all rational men.

The eleven chapters in this volume explore the process of carving out, in discourse and in practice, the boundaries delineating the state, the civil sphere, and the family in Japan from 1600 to 1950. One of the central themes in the volume is the demarcation of relations between the central political authorities and local communities. The early modern period in Japan is marked by a growing sense of a unified national society, with a long, comm...

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