The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain. Includes the Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack: 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Don't be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset -- life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.

The author of Cultural Literacy offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas. From kindergarten through high school, the American education is the worst in the developed world, and the causes of its failure and any possible solutions to it are hotly disputed. For over fifty years, American schools have operated on the assumption that challenging children is bad for them, teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning "process" should be emphasised over the facts taught within it. Yet, as renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch shows in The Schools We Need, this establishment ideology is a tragedy of good intentions gone awry. Hirsch argues that in eschewing content-based curricula for abstract--and disproved--theories of congnitive development, the educational establishment has done irreparable harm to America's students, and instead of preparing them for the country's highly competitive, information-based economy, the process-oriented curricula the establishment practices has severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn. Suggesting a curriculum based on hard work, knowledge aquisition, and rigorous testing that has been proven successful time after time, The Schools We Need offers a proficient and workable solution. By providing evidence of numerous studies proving that fact-based education works, and a glossary of brief, authoritative explanations of educational phrases often used to dazzle teachers and the general public, Hirsch proves that if children are taught substantial knowledge and skills, and learn to work hard to acquire them, their test scores will rise, their love of learning will grow, and they will become enthusiastic participants in the information-age civilization. The Schools We Need is a passionate and thoughtful book that will appeal to the millions of people who can't understand why American schools just don't work.

Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God workbook by Margaret Feinberg is a 7-session Bible study filmed in the spectacular Canadian rockies that will remind you what it means to awaken to wonder—every day. Do you ever feel like you’re going through the motions of faith? Sometimes we do and say the right things, but our hearts are far from God. We lose our sense of holy awe. In Wonderstruck, Margaret Feinberg invites you to toss back the covers, climb out of bed, and drink in the fullness of life God intended. You will learn how to: Develop a renewed passion for God + Identify what’s holding you back in prayer + Find extraordinary moments on ordinary days + Discover peace in knowing you’re wildly loved + Recognize the presence of God in the midst of your routine.

In Conquering Learning Disabilities at Any Age, Dr. Bryan Mark Rigg accomplishes several goals. First, he explains what Learning Disabilities (LD) in general are, and what Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia are in particular. As a trained and established historian, Dr. Rigg gives historical explanations and background of where these conditions come from and why we have them. After defining and exploring LD, ADHD and dyslexia, Dr. Rigg chronicles his life of ADHD and dyslexia and how he struggled with it and has used it, ultimately, to his benefit. In doing this, he has consulted countless experts and interviewed former teachers to bring to light the techniques that helped him succeed as a student, as a professional and as a parent. And in using his life as an example, he tries to accomplish three goals for three communities. The first goal is to inspire teachers who teach children with LD issues. He provides countless tactics one might bring to the classroom to help and inspire children with LD, especially ADHD and dyslexia. His second goal is to encourage and help parents of children with LD issues. He explores what his mother, Marilee Rigg, did for him in order to help give other parents examples of what enabled him to overcome his learning disabilities not only in the classroom, but also out in society and at home. Lastly, his third goal with writing this book is to inspire his ADHD/dyslexic/LD "cousins" to work on their condition and turn it into their friend and not into their crutch. Using his biographical narrative, Dr. Rigg gives countless examples of how one might better understand LD issues, which really have only been studied for the past five or six decades. In conclusion, Dr. Rigg uses humor, scholarship, story-telling and history in order to shed new light on an issue that affects millions of people throughout the world and how one might best deal with the LD in their lives and/or in the lives of their loved ones.

KQED Radio's Michael Krasny is one of the country's leading interviewers of literary luminaries, a maestro for educated listeners who prefer their discourse high and civil. He is a writer's interviewer. But it didn't start out that way. In Off Mike , Krasny, host of one of public radio's most popular and intellectually compelling programs, talks of his strong desire to become a novelist in the footsteps of Bellow and Philip Roth, and then discovering his real talent as a communicator—a deft ability to draw others out as an interlocutor. In a mix of memoir and reportage, Krasny takes readers inside his world. He gives an account of the polarizing transformation of talk radio, from his early days at KGO commercial radio, through to his current role at NPR, where he manages to keep the flow of talk in his San Francisco based show animated and politically balanced. Forum fans and lovers of literature will be riveted by the insightful and amusing vignettes and behind the scenes accounts. They will get a taste of the sharp commentary from his encounters with panels of experts, and interviews with cultural and political personalities as well as writers.

"Joseph Epstein may well be the only first-rate American literary critic who can be said to have--and deserve--fans. His essays have captivated readers with their wit, learning, and unabashed love of reading. . . .He has high standards for craftsmanship and a low tolerance for cant." --Washington Times

A one-man think-tank for the New Left, Paul Goodman wrote over thirty books, most of them before his decade of fame as a social critic in the Sixties. A Paul Goodman Reader that does him justice must be a compendious volume, with excerpts not only from best-sellers like Growing Up Absurd, but also from his landmark books on education, community planning, anarchism, psychotherapy, language theory, and poetics. Samples as well from The Empire City, a comic novel reviewers compared to Don Quixote, prize-winning short stories, and scores of poems that led America's most respected poetry reviewer, Hayden Carruth, to exclaim, "Not one dull page. It's almost unbelievable." Goodman called himself as an old-fashioned man of letters, which meant that all these various disciplines and occasions added up to a single abiding concern for the human plight in perilous times, and for human promise and achieved grandeur, love and hope.

Biblical Excavations Volume 1 For Such A Time: A Study of Esther 4:14 The Biblical book of Esther brings ancient history to life as it focuses on one pivotal moment during the Jewish Exile in Persia. Biblical Excavations’ most recent study digs into the conflict, the courage, the timing, and the hidden Hero of this exciting book. Esther’s story of sacrifice and salvation will inspire readers to seek God in hidden places, notice His handiwork, and take advantage of the opportunities He provides. This short study includes four lessons that may be completed by a student within one week or within a small study group over the course of several weeks. It is also appropriate for families with a range of ages. The questions provide opportunities for deep thought and examination of the text, while the activities are adaptable for groups and individuals. There is even a set of paper dolls included for young ones to cut or cut and color while they listen to the discussion and learn about Esther’s choice to move from passivity to brave activity. The Greatest Commandment Biblical Excavations is excited to introduce their latest Bible study: The Greatest Commandment. Families, small groups, and students are all invited to grab their Bibles and a favorite sweet treat to learn how we love God by loving others. This study includes five lessons, Hebrew context culture and words, multiple activities, and plenty of discussion and journal prompts. Together, we will follow the thread of God’s call to love starting with Moses, continuing through the Prophets right into the Gospel writers Matthew, Mark and Luke, and to us today. Come explore the richness of God’s love for us and others as we excavate ancient Biblical nuggets from the Truth of God’s Word.

Under the influence of science, modern civilization has adopted the view that only things that can be verified empirically or arrived at rationally are true. Modern people tend to regard themselves as mechanisms, without any subjective aspects to their nature. In this insightful and passionately concerned book, British educationist and man of letters David Holbrook retorts persuasively that this reductive view of human nature is profoundly false. Man's inner, subjective life is essential to his nature, what happens to his consciousness is the most important thing in his life, and his greatest need is to find meaning.Holbrook also warns that reductionism has pernicious, even lethal, cultural, social, and political consequences. The logical result is nihilism: if human beings and existence are but physical mechanisms, it necessarily follows that consciousness does not exist, life is meaningless, our concern with moral values is pointless, and so are our lives and actions. Life itself reduces to nothing but self-indulgence and self-assertion. A culture informed by this perspective is necessarily full of expressions of hate and meaninglessness, which coarsens and demoralizes the majority of the population and worsens the mental pathologies of unstable persons. "Egoistical nihilism" becomes ever more widespread, and a decent society becomes impossible.Holbrook advances a keenly insightful and eloquent critique of the radical individualism of Max Stirner's famous tract The Ego and His Own. Stirner's worldview, he argues, is grounded in psychopathology and takes the nihilist assumptions of modernity to their logical conclusion: "the unique one" totally detached from society and reducing others to mere means to his ends, fair game for exploitation unfettered by ethical considerations. Ominously, he notes, the Stirnerean attitude toward existence is becoming increasingly common. Against the reductive perspective of positivism, Holbrook argues that scientific investigations establish the reality of meaning and of values rooted in love. He calls for a reaffirmation of both.Originally published in 1977, Education, Nihilism, and Survival speaks prophetically and even more urgently to us today. The worsening coarseness, nihilism, and brutality of our culture, the partisan fanaticisms and widespread alienation and apathy of our politics, and horrors such as school shootings reveal the consequences of radical individualism.Education, Nihilism, and Survival will be of interest to well-educated general readers concerned at the state of culture and society; educators alarmed at harmful approaches in education; and psychologists and philosophers concerned about existentialism, Stirner's egoist philosophy, and the need for meaningful, philosophical anthropology.