The Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth.... PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Read more

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen by the self-denial of the group. Here is an explanation of why the national media and their corporate owners kept Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren out of the race. Why they wanted their investment in the Clinton's to work and how they were willing to go to great lengths to make that happen. Don't have time to read the thousands of leaked emails from inside the Clinton machine? The author has done it for you and has come back from the experience with a stunning peek into the world of a political leader who privately declared that she wanted a hemisphere "with open trade and open borders." Finally, here is the story of the rise of Donald Trump. How his opponents sought to derail him. This is the story of how Donald Trump's message and brand transcended the traps laid by his enemies. How, against all odds, he won the presidency. And here are the details of his plan to make American great again.

In Satanaeon, Jorjani takes the subject of UFO (UAP) Disclosure and its connection to psychic phenomena and the paranormal in general as his point of departure, arguing that what is at stake is far more apocalyptic than any revelation of ET contact. Rather, Jorjani contends that on the other side of the “phenomenon” is a diabolical intelligence that manages a simulacrum in which we are ensconced. Moreover, he thinks that we are about to come up against the computational limit of this system, because information is interchangeable with mass and energy, and we are about to reach a critical mass of information that will catastrophically exert the same kinds of gravitational forces on Earth that “dark matter” does on galaxies.Ultimately, Jorjani sees this “information catastrophe” as part of a cyclical harvest with an evolutionary purpose, serving the aims of a Cosmic Trickster, namely the Aeon Satana, who is trying to sustain life, foster creativity, and overcome entropy. Her Magic Theater of Cruelty is an ordeal intended to initiate and identify Promethean spirits strong enough to join her as companions in a process of co-creation and enduring cosmic evolution. Ranging from Heraclitus and Kafka to Hegel and Nietzsche, Jorjani strives to make a case for the devil in a world where God is dead. Read more

A treasure trove of Disney trivia by Dave Smith, Chief Archivist Emeritus of the Walt Disney Archives! Beginning with the July 1983 issue of Disney Channel Magazine, Dave Smith began answering Disney trivia questions from viewers of the Disney Channel. In the ensuing thirty years, his column has continued through multiple publications, including Disney Magazine, the on-line "Disney Insider," and most recently the D23 website. "Ask Dave" questions have come from Disney enthusiasts the world over, and have covered topics ranging from Cinderella's last name (Tremaine) to the number of triangles covering the surface of Epcot's Spaceship Earth (11,324 facets comprising 954 triangles.) After the success of his first Disney trivia Q&A book, Disney Trivia from the Vault, Dave continued his "Ask Dave" column through the D23 website. In recent years, questions have gotten more interesting and difficult for Dave to answer, as the more common answers can now be found online. With another critical mass of about 1,100 new Disney trivia Q&A, Dave assemble his second volume, Disney Facts Revealed. Divided into chapters covering a specific aspect of The Walt Disney Company (such as Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disney films, Disney television, Disney characters, Disney collectibles, and more). Many of the questions lead Dave to fascinating information that has not been published elsewhere, and readers will delight in discovering some of the secrets behind their favorite movies and theme parks. "Is it true that most of the Matterhorn has chicken wire?" "I heard that there is a Goofy wristwatch with the numbers going counterclockwise. Is that true?" "Did the Sherman brothers ever perform one of their songs in a movie feature?" Only Dave knows the answers!

A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our timeFrom his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies, and television to the literary criticism of the eighties and nineties that made him both feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott has had a career as a freelance critic and a literary  intellectual nearly unique in our time. This collection features the best of Wolcott in whatever guise—connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer—he has chosen to take on.      Included in this collection is “O.K. Corral Revisited,” a fresh take on the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dustup on The Dick Cavett Show that launched Wolcott from his Maryland college to New York City (via bus) to begin his brilliant career. His prescient review of Patti Smith’s legendary first gig at CBGB leads off a suite of eyewitness and insider accounts of the rise of punk rock, while another set of pieces considers the vast cultural influence of the enigmatic Johnny Carson and the scramble of his late-night successors to inherit the “swivel throne.” There are warm tributes to such diverse figures as Michael Mann, Sam Peckinpah, Lester Bangs, and Philip Larkin and masterly  summings-up of the departed giants of American literature—John Updike, William Styron, John Cheever, and Mailer and Vidal. Included as well are some legendary takedowns that have entered into the literary lore of our time.      Critical Mass is a treasure trove of sparkling, spiky prose and a fascinating portrait of our lives and cultural times over the past decades. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, James Wolcott’s fearless essays and reviews offer a bracing taste of the real critical thing. Read more

Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 is a ground-breaking anthology that collects twenty original writings that elucidate critically important somatic and political perspectives on Contact Improvisation (CI). This form of partner dancing that was started in the United States in 1972, has spread into a vibrant global community in the twenty-first century. Resistance and Support is edited and includes an introduction by veteran CI practitioner and dance studies scholar Ann Cooper Albright. For much of its existence in the twentieth century, Contact Improvisation prided itself on its democratic and egalitarian roots. Jams are open to newcomers, women learned to lift men, and dancing roles were not conventionally gendered in the traditional sense of partnered dancing such as tango or ballroom. These conventions meant that questions of social power were often ignored within the jams and festivals where Contact Improvisation thrives. This thoughtful collection engages issues of inclusion and access through insightful essays written by people whose life experiences are shaped by this extraordinary form of kinaesthetic communication. Chapters trace the stories of CI in China and Taiwan, India, Mexico, Brazil, as well as those in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Some discuss the somatic training that provides a movement basis for the improvisational exchanges between dancers. Others foreground the feminist and queer perspectives on the evolving twenty-first century practice of the form. Several elaborate on the healing, spiritual, or therapeutic aspects of CI, while others explore the mixed ability approaches to the form popularized by Alito Alessi's Dance Ability pedagogy. Like Critical Mass: CI @ 50, the international conference and festival honoring CI's 50th anniversary from which these writings emerged, these essays both celebrate the expansive possibilities and critique some of the exclusionary conventions of this ever-evolving form of communal dance. Read more

It doesn’t seem right that the well-being of a few should take precedence over the well-being of many, let alone the vast majority of our citizens. The downward spiral of America is gaining momentum and our freedoms are being stolen each day. Our children are being exploited. Our American civilization is imploding. Our cities are sinking into third world crime havens. Our borders are like torn sieves. Our own sovereignty and its importance is evaporating.Are you sick of the Anti-American virus infecting and attacking our freedoms, liberties, and way of life? We do not have to accept this new version of America that is being crammed down our throats. American Madness draws parallels that address everything from honesty, courage, integrity, morals, dignity, to determination and how all these things relate to living a good life and enjoying freedom and liberties. You will see stories of how an indomitable spirit, properly governed, can conquer most anything.This book will introduce you to the Marxist regime that openly is attacking America with Woke’s weapons of mass destruction: Critical Race Theory (CRT), Cancel Culture, Gender Identity, Social Emotional Learning, biological males invading female sports and bathrooms, and so much more. You will understand where we have been and where we are going as a nation. Throughout this book you will find many ways you can become involved to save our children, our culture, our freedoms, our liberties, and preserve the American way of life. Read more

Amazon #1 Bestseller ! Learn how the NEW Entrepreneurs of the 21st century thrive and succeed.Underneath our feet, the ground shifted.Technology changed, the way people behave changed, the world changed.With networks, platforms, crowds, movements, sharing economies, and uncertain business models - all bets are off.Innovation, business, marketing and management are being re-defined.Yet, the old techniques are still being taught and used. You are being set up to fail.The past and the outdated rules are holding you back.And the more experienced you are, the more you will struggle.Master the new rules of modern entrepreneurship.The Age of Metapreneurship is about the future of entrepreneurship, and about a new kind of entrepreneur.The Age of Metapreneurship takes a step back - providing a 10,000-foot view so you can see patterns, avoid minefields, and understand the new terrain.Reading this book will give you new ideas, new strategies for being successful, and help remove some of the frustrations that come from using knowledge and techniques from the past.Reinvent yourself in the form of a modern entrepreneur: A Metapreneur.Inside we'll explore:Chaos - How entrepreneurship is so broadly defined today that we have no idea anymore who is and isn't.Cults - How the institutions, programs, and leaders designed to help entrepreneurs, are failing them.Dots - Entire industries are ripe for disruption (by entrepreneurs) because the old business models are disintegrating.Direct, straight lines, are being replaced by 'connecting the dots.'Abundance vs Scarcity - and how 'every abundance creates a new scarcity' is the new business mantra.Scale - is now a required strategy for every startup - otherwise you risk irrelevance: but scaling now can be far, wide, or deep.Crowds change everything - crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and collective intelligence.Sharing - is not just a fad - it's the new economy.Movements - the waves of the network: Join them, start them, leverage them - or risk being left out.All of these trends converge and change us - from customers, employees to vendors and companies - and this leads to a new kind of leadership, and a new style of entrepreneurship: Metapreneurship.This book is a not checklist on 'how to become an entrepreneur," nor is it a manual on 'how to launch a company.' The Age of Metapreneurship contains raw materials, ideas, paradigms, and ammunition so that savvy entrepreneurs and advisors can create unique strategies, and avoid using old ones.If you've been advising new ventures and guiding them through a bootcamp-like experience - only to see them sputter, and fade away, this book is for you.If you see entrepreneurship in your region brimming, brewing, and percolating -but never seeming to gain critical mass, this book is for you.If you're a highly experienced entrepreneur embarking on a new venture, this book is for you.The Age of Metapreneurship is like a collection of pieces to an unusual puzzle: Every time you put the pieces together, they form a different picture that is only for you.Success is no longer about being a rock star; it's about playing jazz in an ensemble.You are no longer an entrepreneur; you're a Metapreneur - playing in The Age of Metapreneurship. Read more