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This Peace is For You - Giveaway - New Release
Just Released -
Most people don't know this little secret:
“You can't get without first giving.”
These wise words from Napoleon Hill come from much older, very common observations of natural law. It's been written many ways, the Golden Rule being one of the most known – but this principle is found in one version or another in all the major philophies, religions, and belief-systems across this wide world, throughout history.
If you want more peace in your life, the first thing to do is to give away 10 copies of this book. Seriously.
Because you can't get without giving.
If you want peace for yourself, you're going to have to give the chance to others. And in this very turbulent, information-saturated world – every one of your friends and acquaintances will need all the chances they can get.
The second thing to do is to set some time aside daily, and study one chapter each day (at least once.) Consider what you studied just before droppign off to sleep. In the morning, consider it again before rising. Wake up a little earlier than usual to give you the time you need.
At the end of 30 days, you'll have considered new data which has helped you develop ways for peace in your life.
That's what this book has been developed for – just to bring you the tools you need to enhance your native ability to generate your own peace.
The point of this book is to create a movement which envelopes the world. If everyone gave 10 books away, it would quickly spread exponentially to all people everywhere.
When just a small percentage of the world's population is enabled to generate and stay at peace all the time, then a permanent World Peace will form. Already, despite the news' agencies, terrorists, and dictator's best efforts, we have more peace now than ever before.
Let's make the entire world safe for everyone in it. Pass this around freely.
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Ebook available at all major distributors:
Trade paperback (6"x9", 442 pages) available on Lulu and soon on Amazon and all brick-and-mortar bookstores:
"This Peace is For You - A 30-day journey to find more personal peace and freedom in your life."
Most people don't know this little secret:
“You can't get without first giving.”
These wise words from Napoleon Hill come from much older, very common observations of natural law. It's been written many ways, the Golden Rule being one of the most known – but this principle is found in one version or another in all the major philophies, religions, and belief-systems across this wide world, throughout history.
If you want more peace in your life, the first thing to do is to give away 10 copies of this book. Seriously.
Because you can't get without giving.
If you want peace for yourself, you're going to have to give the chance to others. And in this very turbulent, information-saturated world – every one of your friends and acquaintances will need all the chances they can get.
The second thing to do is to set some time aside daily, and study one chapter each day (at least once.) Consider what you studied just before droppign off to sleep. In the morning, consider it again before rising. Wake up a little earlier than usual to give you the time you need.
At the end of 30 days, you'll have considered new data which has helped you develop ways for peace in your life.
That's what this book has been developed for – just to bring you the tools you need to enhance your native ability to generate your own peace.
The point of this book is to create a movement which envelopes the world. If everyone gave 10 books away, it would quickly spread exponentially to all people everywhere.
When just a small percentage of the world's population is enabled to generate and stay at peace all the time, then a permanent World Peace will form. Already, despite the news' agencies, terrorists, and dictator's best efforts, we have more peace now than ever before.
Let's make the entire world safe for everyone in it. Pass this around freely.
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Ebook available at all major distributors:
Trade paperback (6"x9", 442 pages) available on Lulu and soon on Amazon and all brick-and-mortar bookstores:
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Art of War - Samurai Master Class - Sun Tzu
New Release: The Art of War, A Samurai Master Class - with Sun Tzu, Mushashi Miyamoto, and Imazo Nitobe
Few books have continued their bestselling status centuries after their author's death.
Like other classics, such as the Gospels of Jesus, and Lao Tze's Tao Te Chung, there is much discussion of who actually wrote them and how.
What is important is how such books are used. Because only extremely useful books continue in demand at bookstores, especially over generations.
Wikipedia notes:
The Art of War has been applied to many fields well outside of the military. Much of the text is about how to fight wars without actually having to do battle: it gives tips on how to outsmart one's opponent so that physical battle is not necessary. As such, it has found application as a training guide for many competitive endeavors that do not involve actual combat.
There are business books applying its lessons to office politics and corporate strategy. Many Japanese companies make the book required reading for their key executives.
The book is also popular among Western business management, who have turned to it for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive business situations. It has also been applied to the field of education. The Art of War has been the subject of law books and legal articles on the trial process, including negotiation tactics and trial strategy.
This book is entitled The Art of War, A Samurai Master Class, as two additional classics, “The Book of Five Rings” and “Bushido, the Soul of Japan” have been included. No study of this period would be complete without understanding the strategies, tactics, and ethics of the Samurai.
All of us have our journey to follow. For some, we could use this persona to make our decisions more wisely, to resolve conflicts as we move though life. In this, the Art of War can become the Way of Peace. In any day and age, having an ethical code to live by, while also utilizing a strategy and tactics tool-set which has been proved over centuries of application – these seem to point out a road many can travel on their own.
This is presented as the old Japanese proverb told, “There are many paths up the mountain.”
In that spirit, this book is humbly presented for your use.
(From the Forward)
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eBook now available:
Trade paperback (6"x9", 173 pages) available on Lulu and soon on Amazon and all brick-and-mortar bookstores:
About this book:
This collection is composed of books which have long been in the public domain,- Sun Tzu (d. 496 BC) first published "The Art of War" around 512 BC. this version based on the translation of 1910 by Lionel Giles.
- Miyamoto Mushashi (d. 1645) first published "The Book of Five Rings" in about 1645, this version's translator is unknown, while recognized as public domain.
- Inazo Nitobe (d. 1933) first published "Bushido, the Soul of Japan" in 1899 in English.
We're missing a catalog for re-released works...
Bestseller Fiction Classics deserve better.
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That's why we've been updating them for you with new covers and decent descriptions.
This all started as a program to enable writers to learn from the classics and so improve their own craft. However, it's popular support has broadened the scope to include the top 100 (or so) all-time popular classic fiction (and a few non-fiction) to enable any writer (or reader) to study from history's greatest.
What we found is that these books - now in the public domain - have been given short shrift, with boring covers, cheap-quality printing, and poor (also boring) descriptions that don't communicate the excitement the millions of readers have shared over the years.
And the ebook versions are mostly some sort of machine-code scene, with no table of contents and sometimes other horrible errors. Sure, they're free - but "you get what you pay for" has never been truer.
So I started this campaign with a couple dozen books, just to see how they do - and now have committed to doing a full release for over 100 books. This will mean they get proper reviews, their own page on a respectful website, and ways you can find any version of these classics that you want - hardback or digital - all with some care to the reader, and respect for the original author and his works.
I just wanted to drop you a note to say I'm working on this. Eventually, they'll all wind up in a catalog that you can download (for free) and so have access to all these versions. The great part is that they don't have to cost an incredible amount to get the best quality possible.
The point is to give writers and readers, as well as the books and their authors, all possible respect. While this may take a good part of the upcoming year to create, it will be a labor of love - and so should go more quickly than someone getting paid to do this. (Of course, these will have small prices on them, which will pay my bills while I re-publish these.)
Thanks again for your support...
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Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility - classic fiction
Where misfortune and romance intertwine to produce popular emotional appeal
About this book:
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and
was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the
pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, Sense and
Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and
portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and
Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a
meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they
experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution
of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and
sensibility have truly merged.
When Mr.
Dashwood dies, his estate, Norland Park, passes directly to his only
son John, the child of his first wife. His second wife, Mrs.
Dashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are
left only a small income. On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a
promise from his son, that he will take care of his half-sisters;
however, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to
renege. John and Fanny immediately take up their place as the new
owners of Norland, while the Dashwood women are reduced to the
position of unwelcome guests. Mrs. Dashwood begins looking for
somewhere else to live.
In the
meantime, Fanny's brother, Edward Ferrars, a pleasant, unassuming,
intelligent but reserved young man, visits Norland and soon forms an
attachment with Elinor. Fanny disapproves the match and offends Mrs.
Dashwood with the implication that Elinor is motivated by money
rather than love. Mrs. Dashwood indignantly speeds her search for a
new home.
Mrs.
Dashwood moves her family to Barton Cottage in Devonshire, near the
home of her cousin, Sir John Middleton. Their new home lacks many of
the conveniences that they have been used to, however they are warmly
received by Sir John, and welcomed into the local society, meeting
his wife, Lady Middleton, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings and his
friend, the grave, quiet and gentlemanly Colonel Brandon. It soon
becomes apparent that Colonel Brandon is attracted to Marianne, and
Mrs. Jennings teases them about it. Marianne is not pleased as she
considers Colonel Brandon, at thirty-five, to be an old bachelor
incapable of falling in love, or inspiring love in anyone else.
Marianne,
out for a walk, gets caught in the rain, slips and sprains her ankle.
The dashing, handsome John Willoughby sees the accident and assists
her. Marianne quickly comes to admire his good looks and outspoken
views on poetry, music, art and love. Mr. Willoughby's attentions are
so overt that Elinor and Mrs. Dashwood begin to suspect that the
couple are secretly engaged... (source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was
an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the
landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read
writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social
commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and
critics.
Austen's
works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the
18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.
Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive
reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public,
and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a
great English writer. (source: Wikipedia)
About the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:
This
was created by popular request to enable any beginning or established
author to improve their skills by studying quality editions of
classic bestselling fiction. Join at http://midwestjournalpress.com
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - now a Writers' Club classic fiction
Practical Common Sense might be missing, except in her humor-filled books.
About this book:
Pride and
Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The
story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with
issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in
the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.
Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman
living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near
London.
Though the
story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a
fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of
"most loved books" such as The Big Read. It has become one
of the most popular novels in English literature and receives
considerable attention from literary scholars.
The novel
centers on Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the five daughters of a
country gentleman. Mr Bennet is a bookish man, and somewhat
neglectful of his responsibilities. Mrs Bennet is a woman lacking in
social graces and primarily concerned with finding suitable husbands
for her five daughters. Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter, is
distinguished by the kindness of her attitudes; Elizabeth Bennet, the
second daughter, shares her father's keen wit and occasionally
sarcastic outlook; Mary is studious, devout and aspires to be
musical; Kitty, the fourth sister follows where her younger sister
leads, while Lydia is flirtatious and unrestrained.
The
narrative opens with news in the Bennet family that Mr Bingley, a
wealthy, charismatic and social young bachelor, is moving into
Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood. Mr Bingley is soon well
received, while his friend Mr Darcy makes a less favorable first
impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they
attend (he detests dancing and is not much for light conversation).
Mr Bingley singles out Jane for particular attention, and it soon
becomes apparent that they have formed an attachment to each other,
though Jane does not alter her conduct for him, confessing her great
happiness only to Lizzie. By contrast, Darcy slights Elizabeth, who
overhears and jokes about it despite feeling a budding resentment.
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the author:
Jane Austen
(16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose
works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a
place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her
historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen's
works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the
18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.
Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive
reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public,
and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a
great English writer.
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:
This was created by popular request to enable any beginning or established author to improve their skills by studying quality editions of classic bestselling fiction. Join at http://midwestjournalpress.com
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