Essential reading for our times
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For all of us worried about our times or just curious historians this is a must have book.
Mr. Sylvest spends much of this book telling how it was done. So one could apply this knowledge if need be. One of the few books I've found that apply to the unique challenges of the southern farm.
So you want to be prepared, you are a survivalist or seeking to homestead and be more independent?  Here it is, the real world. It has been done before.
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Prophets in the Old Testament spoke the words of God, but they also knew how to read the signs of the times. Ben Wiker has put together in Worshipping The State a mountain of data and historical facts to prove his point: liberalism as we see it today is designed to obliterate Christianity and replace it with a hedonistic pagan-state that functions both as government and religion. Liberals who read this book might scoff initially at it's forthright premise, but after reading only a few pages, would see that this is no joke. Liberalism takes on all of the characteristics of a religion (dogma, doctrines about cosmology and morality) but utilizes the coercive power of the state to implement its agenda. Wiker notes the eerie parallels to pagan Rome that we are seeing in modern society today. And he carefully constructs the rise of this in the last 500 years through Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Locke, and into the universities of today. This work is engaging, incredibly readable, highly researched, and well-documented. I highly recommend this work from a modern day prophet who is reading the signs of the times. His insight helps us understand where we are now, where we are headed, and why we have to stop the persecution of Christianity in order to save us from becoming the next formerly great empire. And while you are at it, pick up some of his prior books that carefully and insightfully examine where we are, and how we got here.
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Gordon Leidner's latest book, The Founding Fathers, is a perfect package for our day. Gordon is a gifted curator of significant and memorable quotes from key historical figures, and he knows how to introduce and present them in ways that foster greater understanding. The entries in this collection will remind many readers of blog posts, Facebook entries, and tweets -- only far more powerful and profound -- proving once again that pithiness is hardly a 21st-century invention.

Reading this book, we are reintroduced to the intellectual energy, unswerving perseverance, and insight into human nature that characterized the Founding Fathers, traits that were indispensable to the formation of this great nation. This book shows us vital glimpses of our moral and intellectual roots, enabling us to better recognize those areas in which the vision of liberty has been gloriously realized today and those areas in which, sad to say, it has grown quite dim indeed.
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The Author is spot on presenting easily digestible concepts, ideas and suggestions for a better "us" and our world.

This book should be considered mandatory reading in our schools to help prepare young adults to be conscious of their choices and the long lasting effects they make.
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Highly appropriate for the time we currently live in. Easily digestable read even for the laymen. Have a feeling this might be a very important piece of work dispite it's brevity.
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This book is more timely than ever, as we face the ultimate result of Al Franken's revelations in our current political climate.  Worthy reading.
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This collection tackles the big issues in the world today  war, terrorism, politics, and homelessness, to name a few. And although at first the subject matter may sound a little grim, the poetry is so polished and satisfying to read. My personal favourite is Symphony of the City, which is the first poem in the book, and beautifully describes the sounds of urban life.

Not only do the poems in this collection highlight the fault lines of our modern world, but in doing so they serve to make the reader more aware of current events, and they can inspire the reader to do something to make a change  however small. And yes, we are all already aware of whats going on in the world  war overseas, violence in our own countries, and crime taking place in our own local communities. But how much attention do we really pay to the news, and how desensitised have we become to it? If this is all the new normal, perhaps we need a wake-up call to remind us that this shouldnt be our normal, that the world could be a much better, safer place, and that we should never stop trying to make it so.

Sure, if you're looking for a lighter read this might not be the right book to pick up. But in a world of fake news and alternative facts, if youd prefer to read something thats honest and forthright but written creatively and poetically, this is for you.
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Tucker's book is unlike some others trying to grapple with the emerging technologies and practices that are becoming essential to the modern human experience. His is informed by a realistic and sound view of economics and of the importance of human liberty, and an awareness of the patterns we see emerging. We are living in an age of revolutions--digital information and personal computing, mobile devices, smartphones, social networking, peer-to-peer, and, as Patrick Byrne describes it, "disintermediation"--developments and technologies that will result in revolutionary changes for human society. We are at the cusp of the Singularity, and searing, insightful works like this book by Jeff Tucker are essential to those who want to understand, navigate, profit from, and participate in the revolutionary social changes that we are experiencing now. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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This book is essential reading for those of us who know we are changing and want some guidance and assurance.  Barry Sadleir's channelings are informative, easy to read.  I have read it fully twice already, and probably will refer to it again and again.  It is easy reading, and I intuitively feel that it is TRUTH.
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Essential reading.  Every citizen of the world who wants to be informed should read this extraordinary book.
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This is essential reading for an understanding and assessment of the US role in the current international arena with regard to terrorism and counter-terrorism policies. Dr. Staar-Deelan draws on her legal background to raise important questions on the legality of current US policies. Her analysis of the use of drones an US policy on torture is particularly illuminating. It will be interesting to read her insights into the Obama administration and ISIS, which is soon to be published.
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A very accurate and highly recommended reading for today concerning the time we are living in and the coming days.
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In this absorbing and important work, lawyer and scholar Scott Gant depicts how the evolution of the news media has outpaced our legal system.  In prose that is admirably clear, Gant explains how our current conceptions of journalists, and the legal protections they are due, are outdated and even harmful to our republic.  The proliferation of citizen journalists who cover the news with seriousness, depth, and fairness--and the increasing needs of a public which reads and depends upon their work--should move our society into expanding the reach of legal protections currently only available to paid, professional, "mainstream" journalists.

WE'RE ALL JOURNALISTS NOW combines the very best traditions of writing on public affairs and law: it is topical and up to date, while offering deep insights that should inform our public discussions about citizen journalists for years to come.  Gant's writing is logical, accurate, and careful, while still readable, engaging, and convincing.  His points always hit hard while remaining fair and on the mark.  Gant's arguments are so tightly and effectively rendered, that the reader may be surprised to find him or herself coming to the same dramatic conclusions he does: our society needs nothing short of a revolution in how we think of and safeguard the enterprise of journalism.

WE'RE ALL JOURNALISTS NOW is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the current state of journalism, the news media and the internet, and the evolution of U.S. law.  Few books of the last decade are so well positioned to make a lasting impact on public affairs, and, in particular, our debates about the First Amendment and how we gather and absorb news.  Read Gant's book, and become part of this conversation.

Bruce Peabody, Associate Professor of Political Science
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Yuval Levin cuts through all the white noise of political ideologies, demagoguery and blunderbuss approaches to unite America.  In our time of hyper individualism, Levin is clear as to what timeless forces need to be in place in order to restore the fracture of our nation.  He has a clear blueprint that must be considered.  They are timeless beacons, but forgotten by our leaders.  Nostalgia of the past, while ever present, must not  act as blinders holding back looking to the future.  No one-size-fits-all govern government approach will work.  Engagement of smaller, more local organizations is proposed to work more highly efficiently.  This book should be mandatory reading to anyone who cares about America and the how the concept of E Pluribus Unum fulfills its call.
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Essential reading for everyone today. Professor Snyder lays out the essentials  for confronting the extraordinary danger we face in the early 21st-century.  Ignore this book at your own risk, and at the risk of your progeny.
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Frenetic Intemperance and How We Can Return to Order.:
Return To Order:From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society Where We've Been,How We Got Here,and Where We Need to Go By John Horvat II.

Return to Order is an Most Excellent Read and Highly Recommended,How does one sift through all the madness of an Consumerist-Society of an Immoral and Indecent one,of An America that has gone the wayside not just Economically as the book so finely points out but from an Spritual and Metaphyiscal Level,Lack of Morals has increased our decline and we have false solutions as the book points to such as Ecological and Socialist Solutions that won't help only to increase Poverty and increase The Problem as well as Give the State an bigger hold over all. The book never falters away from it's main Point in each Chapter,We Need to Return to an Organic and Christian Society,an Christian State. Not organic as in the Recent Trend people believe Organic means to be,It's not an Leftist Approach this has been tried many times and each time as all can witness it has failed. We need to be great and We Can be,We Need God not in the way we have been taught In Secularism but in an real way,in the Original way. I know I am an Product of Public School education and Come from an Lower-Middle Class background,And the book provides answers and at the same times asks of us what are we to do? What can we Do? It's not too late as the book points out,The book makes an Case that sooner or later the economy will be worst sadly,But The Economy's downfall has come from Ideas that has to do with people putting them first it's not Simple Greed as Leftists would have you believe or the Free-Market that needs to be eliminated the book does not call for that and argues that we need Free Enterprise and Not Crony Capitalism either. Aside from the argument for Us to Change to be Moral again and Go Back To God and be Practicing Catholics there are many sources some Doctors from The Church whose wisdom still rings true today along with Great Thinkers of Catholic Thought. The Book Notes Yes it Will be Hard in an World that has drowned in Mass-Production and everything is the same formula(The Author Calls it Gigantism but doesn't mean in it in an Hostile AntiCapitalist Approach)it will be like Climbing an Mountain but why should we strive to be another one in the crowd along with the falsehoods Secularism teaches?We Can be Great and we can do that Once we Return To Order.
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We need more people to read this and understand its significance to the times we live in.  Easy to understand, good for teachers, facilitators of group work, people who want the change toward a new sustainable world to be for our spirits as well as the physical world around us.