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Honey, He Shrunk My Head! and Other Tall Huntin' and Fishin' Tales
John Meacham
A collection of 21 "attempted humor stories" published in River Country Outdoors and Buckmasters Whitetail Magazine between 1990 and 1996. The characters are members of the fictional Kickapoo County Sportsman's Club and include the likes of Big Ben Klock (the luckiest man in the county), Lester "Lead Pipe" Finch (prominent Roto-Rooter franchise holder), Dub "Lordnose" Nelson ("The Lord knows I don't know much!"), Carlos Muldoon (strongest man in the county), Dewey Wisely (high school guidance counselor), Dr. Rube Eggtimer (psychiatrist) and Fishhook Fields (crime fighter and investigator of the unusual).
The Legend of Juggin Joe
Joseph Yakel
Author Joseph Yakel presents his own blend of humor and drama in this country boy comedy. Offered as a light-hearted, fun adventure with a feel-good edge, Yakel said he was looking to amuse his audience with something different. If the grind of everyday life and work is putting you to sleep, worry your troubled heart no more. A remedy is now at hand. Good humor is a powerful antidote to the 'environmental lethargy' weighing you down. Read, "The Legend of Juggin Joe", and count yourself among those who have awaked!
Oh Zaperetta!
Albert Russo
A hilarious, irreverent-romp through the life of a twelve-year-old Zapinette. Set in Paris, Italy, Belgium and New York, a quicksilver exploration into life?s Byzantine landscape as seen through the unsparing eyes of one child, Zapinette.
The Forty Club
Andrew Salmon
From Ellis Award nominee Andrew Salmon comes The Forty Club -- a hilarious and insightful tale of aging and its consequences. Jack Russo is turning forty and there's not much he can do about it. He's had a lifetime to get ready for this milestone but nothing can prepare him for what he is about to face. For you see, turning forty means more than just candles on a birthday cake. It comes with the expectation that one will join the Forty Club, leaving Jack faced with a decision which will change his world forever. In fact, you might say his life depends on it. Well, no one ever said getting old was easy. Don't trust anyone over thirty? That's a laugh! It's the older crowd you've got to watch out for.
Tabloid Nation
John Schasny
Narrator is intrigued by a group of losers who embark upon a search that includes a visit with the channeling "Cure Girl" who promises to lead them to the Promised Land to avoid total annihilation, but when he falls in love with a fellow traveller, all hell breaks loose, and he decides to bore a hole into his own head so that they might all "see the light." But once cured, everything changes, and our Narrator learns that he has become that thing which he despised most...a loser.
Two For One--a novel about having choices
Sean David Wright
A romantic comedy telling the story of Danielle Edwards, a bisexual woman, who has a straight boyfriend and a lesbian lover. A modern day twist to usual ideas of family and commitment.
Tabloid Nation
John Schasny
Narrator is intrigued by a group of losers who embark upon a search that includes a visit with the channeling "Cure Girl" who promises to lead them to the Promised Land to avoid total annihilation, but when he falls in love with a fellow traveller, all hell breaks loose, and he decides to bore a hole into his own head so that they might all "see the light." But once cured, everything changes, and our Narrator learns that he has become that thing which he despised most...a loser.
77 URBAN STREET Love Thy neighbor? No Way!
ANNIE GRANT
Meet Annie, mid-twenties, moving into an apartment on Urban Street.What starts out calm soon becomes chaotic. Will Annie become what she despises the most? Will she turn into a dysfunctional neighbor? Meet the neighbors. The neighbors from Hell. The neighbors from Urban Street. If you have ever lived with neighbors like this, you would agree, "Love thy neighbor? No Way!"
Russell's Revenge
Dennis Fishel
Thirteen-year-old Dennis knows fear. Its name is Russell Folmer, and it lives just down the street. Den manages to avoid the dangerous Russell until Jay, a tornado with sticky-up hair, moves in... right next door. Sharing an interest in model airplanes, the two boys become friends in spite of their differences. From homemade bombs (created from the only product a dog manufacturers) to talking parrots, Den and Jay stuff a lifetime's worth of adventures into their eighth grade year.
Hitler presented in a new light, and specifically in terms of present day human behavior!
Volume I
The Power of Perception
In the minds of most people, Adolf Hitler represents the very effigy of what Satan himself symbolizes. Yet in terms of human behavior, the actions of Hitler as well as the ideological basis for such actions are not unlike those prevalent today. Due to the slavish reliance of humans upon our perceptions, the genocide nature of the human species is not relegated to merely a few, but such actions are capable of extending to every human within the proper environment. We live through our perceptions, thus such a thing as tyranny is not merely represented by a dictatorial state, but rather exposes itself as a state of mind. A state of mind set by particular beliefs and values that can only be acquired through perceptions, and thus only from the environment in which we exist, and only in terms of ourselves.
Considering that the number one desire of all humans is self-preservation, the one and only emotion that ultimately directly enhances that preservation is contentment. We can only find contentment through self-awareness, which ultimately forces every human to perceive everything in terms of ourselves. Perceptions that aid our contentment are then desired, and such a desire for these perceptions creates perceptual redundancy. We are not born with emotions; rather we must learn these emotions early in life, which in turn begin to define our level of contentment. Thus these emotions ultimately guide our desires and our logic in our perpetual quest for contentment. Many seek such contentment through religious teachings, the knowledge and benefiting aspects of which can only come through perceptions, and specifically in terms of ourselves and in a redundant fashion. Through perceptual redundancy, self-awareness, and contentment, the behavior of each and every human is thus defined, and in essence can ultimately be controlled.
RII attempts to explain the manner in which Hitler was in fact capable of compelling thousands to commit crimes of abomination. But it also relates such psychological phenomena to modern day in areas such as economics, religion, race and cultural ethnicities, and political orientations. Hitler’s entire ideology emulated the very ‘natural selection’ aspect of Darwinian Evolution that our current economic state of capitalism encompasses. Those who denounce the teaching of evolution on religious grounds yet partake in the fruits of capitalism are living a paradoxical existence. Capitalism feeds upon mortal perceptions and thus mortal desires that lead to avaricious mentalities. Socialism on the other hand demands self-restriction and the equal distribution of wealth throughout society. Socialism therefore falls more in line with the teachings of Christianity than does capitalism. Socialism, a revolutionary step to Communism is explained thoroughly in RII, as is the difference between Stalinist Communism or Stalinism and Marxist Communism or Marxism and Leninism. Marx and Lenin believed that state induced collectivism could exist within a democracy whereas Stalin did not.
But capitalism has existed within the United States since its inception, and therefore generation after generation have known no other economic system in a practical sense. Thus this nation lacks the perceptual redundancy of socialism necessary to create the proper perceptual spatial proximity for its existence. Rather capitalism continues to dominate the perceptions of Americans, and until some form of revolution changes that, capitalism will continue to exist in this country. Hitler changed Germany through perceptual redundancy that eventually created the perceptual spatial proximity necessary for his tyrannical rule. Any society can be changed as such, and thus any society that calls itself a society can become a victim of tyranny. But tyranny need not lie merely within a political mindset, but such religions as Christianity likewise become a tyrannical mindset within those who choose to oblige their conduct as demanded by its teachings. But this can only occur through perceptual redundancy, and can do so without regards to physical race, sex, or cultural inclinations resulting from perceptual environments. Such things as racism and sexism arise through perceptions, and specifically those that occur in a redundant fashion.
Volume I of RII takes the reader through the events that led to WWI, and specifically in terms of the German Empire under Otto von Bismarck while briefly alluding to the Holy Roman Empire considered to be the First Reich. Napoleon’s conquest of the Holy Roman Empire is briefly described, which leads the reader into the formation of the German Empire under Bismarck, or the Second Reich. The book gives an historical account of the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919, the 11-year reign of the Weimar Republic and ultimately takes the reader step by step through the rise of power of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Historically, the book ends on the crest of the German invasion of Poland that would ignite WII, while demonstrating the power of perception within certain historical events when logical to do so. The book introduces the reader to basic genetic concepts including DNA, and gives a racial origins account as described by Nazi Anthropologist Dr Eugen Fischer wherein Hitler ultimately converged Race and Cultural Ethnicity, and thus enabled him to look upon the Jews as a race and not merely a religious community. The Hitler economy is discussed in depth as well as the horrid state of capitalism in America, including a chapter on the debilitating political voice of the American people.
In addition, the racial origins as discussed by Dr Eugen Fischer are also presented in a fashion as to relate them with biblical accounts, and furthermore describes the manner in which Dr Fischer ultimately concluded that such religiously or culturally bound ethnic groups were in fact formed through morphological means. Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf is reviewed in depth within two chapters, and thoroughly explains Hitler’s ideology and the means he used to derive such a philosophy of destruction. Volume I presents a psychological theory called the Pragmatic Perceptual Permutation Theory that proclaims all human behavior is derived through three aspects namely, perceptual redundancy, self-awareness, and contentment, which is the very basis of self-preservation, all of which result in a unique perceptual weighted sequence that defines our character and personality. These three aspects of human psychology alone allowed Hitler to gain power within Germany. But Hitler could only gain power through the support of the masses, which he did through Perceptual Spatial Proximities. This concept proclaims that all humans perceive within perceptual proximity of other humans and specifically in terms of perceptual time or perceptual space within our perceptual existence. Perceptual Spatial Proximities are what causes certain nations to speak certain languages, certain areas of a nation to have certain dialects, while certain cultures eat predominately certain foods, and while different parts of the world have different religious beliefs and values. Perceptual Spatial Proximities and the three aspects of Perceptual Permutations describe the manner in which Hitler first spelled out his intent of evil yet gained the support of the predominately Christian nation of Germany. This furthermore alludes to the power of perception.
Adolf Hitler understood the power of perception, and specifically concerning the manner in which humans process such perceptions in our never-ending pursuit of contentment. Perceptions define who we are, our beliefs, our values, who we love and who we hate, and all within perceptual spatial proximity of others, and as such can be used to control us. The ability of government leaders to use this knowledge in creating a leadership environment that portends to support our definitions of contentment thus have the power to persuade us. Many government leaders will portend to support certain religious beliefs in order to attract support for their cause, which is no different than the manner in which Hitler operated. Under the proper circumstances, even the most faint of individuals can be compelled to commit acts of genocide, and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq is a prime example. For the more we humans condense our perceptual environment in terms of self-awareness, the more genocidal we become. This mere fact describes the ability of humans to still today discriminate against others in terms of race, culture, and even sex. For the more we condense our perceptions within our mind in terms of self-awareness, the more we reject exogenous perceptions or those perceptions deemed different from ourselves, and all in the name of contentment, which is the very basis of self-preservation. Hitler stated that beneath the desire to self-preserve, humanity will melt like snow in the March sun. Not only was that quote the final motivation for the writing of this book, but it also remains prophetically accurate today.
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