Category: Mainstream Nonfiction
Severe Autism Kills
Author: Julie Skolnik Summary The average lifespan of a person with Severe Autism is 39.5 years. This shocking number is directly impacted by the excessive number of people with Severe Autism who die each year due to homicide. ...
Read MoreConsider Warnings Checked
There is a need for acceptance in consideration on the fallout of expansionism just as there is a reality now that the same players; Britain, France, Germany, and United States are more than equipped to take on the external...
Read MoreHOW TO ACT NORMAL: By Acting Crazy, In The World of Influence
The main question of this book is why despite all the promise of modern day society and specifically marketing we are still not happy and how we can maximize the quality of life.
Read MoreMiracle Girl: Finding the missing piece
Synopsis
A life changed forever by rape:
pregnant
refuses abortion
horrific car crash
Roxy enrolls in college. Fellow classmate Jason–cute, athletic, the college mascot–who did backflips when they scored–becomes her boyfriend. He wants sex. Roxanne said no. “I almost tore his penis off.”
Deans ignore her plea for help.
Points Jason out at the fitness center: “Better watch out. He’ll try to rape you.”
College president calls. Rox is threatened with expulsion.
Roxanne remains a passionate, high-energy woman. She lives live to the fullest. Throughout, she embodies Hemingway’s credo–grace under pressure.
Read MoreSEVEN DEADLY SINS OF CORPORATE BOARDS
Using the fictional story of a healthcare technology company, Coppryx, Seven Deadly Sins of Corporate Boards tells the story of a struggling organization with eroding market share and a paralyzed board. Poorly defined roles and responsibilities and constant infighting and conflict prevent the Coppryx board members from properly leading the company. Ron James, the newest director, sees a company rapidly moving towards its own self-destruction and mentors the board to transformation and success.
Read MoreLetters to No One in Particular- A Discussion and Illustration of Spinoza’s ‘Fragment’
In the ‘Fragment’ Spinoza states his goal from the outset which is for us to acquire, “the knowledge of the union existing between our mind and the whole of nature.”
Please notice that he does not use the word ‘brain’.
He asks us to apply his ‘method’ to our own thinking process in order to clarify our thoughts and to select the power resident in our ability to form adequate ideas to recognize the truth of the reality which surrounds our daily lives. He would like us to harness our innate ability to think clearly in order to arrange our lives according to certain principles.
