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In the ten essays presented, the author revisits events in American history popularly shaped through the years by bias and misconception. One of the inherent dangers of a society’s claims to “exceptionalism” is the blind and uncritical acceptance of historical narratives that are both incomplete and inconsistent with the reality of actual events. Whether dealing with relations between the Indigenous American peoples and the first European settlers or the enterprise of attempting to engage in nation building in places like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, history should be viewed and conducted as a cooperative enterprise dedicated to focusing on accurately complete narratives, explanations and interpretations of historical events. The freedom to critically evaluate the conclusions of others is essential for arriving at fair and complete descriptions of the past. The necessity of being prepared to criticize honestly and rigorously reassess oneself is a key component of that exercise.

In any discipline, you can’t find truth without understanding its tools. Philosophy is no different, yet many non-philosophers try to do philosophy without that understanding, or even knowing that there are philosophical tools.

“The Tools of Philosophy” shows all of the major mechanisms for doing philosophy, and how they are related to each other, and in some cases how some are a consequence of others. We also find reason to believe that all of the major tools of philosophy have one source, one major device, and from that device all of the rest follow.

If we want to know how philosophy is done, how we might actually explore philosophical ideas, and how confident we should be in the answers we get, we need to understand how the tools of philosophy, i.e., the devices, principles, methods, concepts and systems at the foundation of the practice, can be used.

The issues that attract us to philosophy are often specific to us. We can’t just read what other philosophers have said and try to “adopt” or “reject”. Sometimes we need to address our personal concerns uniquely. It might not be clear to those not in philosophy that there are effective ways of addressing those concerns, but there are. They can be made explicit. This is the avenue that “Tools of Philosophy” explores.

You can learn to articulate and address something meaningful to you that you may have assumed was out of your reach. Becoming clear on your concern is getting halfway there. Imagine a book that helps with that.

And on your journey, you may just learn how to do a little philosophy.

A Journey into Dreamland is best described as popular level science, which means that it can be understood and enjoyed by most high school graduates who have had the usual smattering of the sciences and are motivated to expand and extend their knowledge of dreaming. (Of course, Bachelors, Masters and PhDs also can understand and enjoy it.)

The author, who has listened to hundreds of dreams during the course of over fifty years of psychiatric practice, makes the effort to discover the “what”, “why” and “how” of dreaming. He not only lays out his theory but encourages and guides the reader to perform the simple experiments that led him to a new theory of dreaming, vastly superior to what has gone before.

All natural phenomena, including dreams, abide by laws that are frequently arcane and, some, as in the case of dreams, may also appear to be crazy. Dream laws are elusive and require extensive effort to identify them. The author has dedicated himself to such a task. The reader will decide if he has been successful.

One doesn’t need to be a scientist to savor this book – one only needs to be a dreamer.

The Role of the Interpreter in Court Explained in Detail

- A Working Manual for the Professional Court Interpreter

- What all Court staff should know about Interpreters in the courtroom

- The Interpreter’s positioning, decorum and style inside the courtroom

- Interpreter’s techniques:

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Out of the Darkness, is the story of a student, Susan Longhorn and a bully, Jane Tyler. Susan comes to a new school. It is not long before she is being bullied by Jane Tyler, in particular and two of her friends. The bullying is relentless and continues for months. Eventually Jane does an unthinkable act against Susan that cannot be ignored. God enters the lives of Jane, her parents, Jane’s friends, and He convinces all that major decisions have to be made to change the lives of all concerned. The principal of the school doesn’t want to see Jane have a criminal record so he asks her to do something that has never been considered by him before. She reluctantly does what the principal asks and her life is changed in miraculous ways.

News about the Occult is hardly considered important enough to mention in today’s news media. Yet the Occult continues to flourish and rapidly spread in the open and secretly. Each individual needs to become knowledgeable about it so they can see and comprehend for themselves what is happening in the “spirit world” today.

This book is a plain and simple crash course for all who want to understand the Occult but do not want to spend a lot of time and money to do so.

The operation of the Occult is beyond human understanding but, with a little time and effort you can learn enough about it to judge whether it is something you want to be involved with. This book should be in everyone’s home to be used now and by future generations.

Beware of anyone or anything that wants to control your mind or body. Every day of the year is not Halloween. Be yourself for your sake and the sake of others who are in your circle of love and influence.

A comprehensive, scholarly work. The first of its kind on the unique African American population of a major American city.

Wonderfully entertaining and well-researched, Haunted Beauty invites the reader to enjoy and ponder the allure of a running theme in Western literature: the existence of ghosts. Weldon’s delightful coverage of aesthetics and apparitions give the book its charm and subtle attraction. Haunted Beauty is a rare gem for those interested in beauty and the beyond in letters...

Integrating philosophy and popular culture, Professor Weldon brings a lively and unique perspective to bear on some important reasons why our reaction to what “goes bump in the night” has evolved from a serious alert to danger into a popular and happy thrill.

Dr. Scott W. Marshall, Professor of Communication & Media Arts, University of St. Francis, IL.

With erudite and expansive treatment, Weldon engages key examples of ghost stories from the Western literary canon. His analysis explores how the universal qualities of aesthetics and humanity’s self-awareness allow the supernatural to retain its significant place in literature and everyday life. This book makes for a great companion for courses in the horror genre, or a delightful and engaging read for the avid horror fan.

Dr. Timothy Milinovich, Assistant Professor of Theology, Dominican University, IL.

This book is intended to be used by students taking Biochemistry 101 with Dr. David R. Khan. It has been formatted to contain a summary of each chapter covered in the course, a slide-by-slide lecture series, and answers to assigned homework problems. This book also contains additional multiple choice (test format) problem sets along with the answers to those questions.