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  How to Be Productive

  Olivia Werner

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  [How to Be Productive] illuminates the subtle art of meaningful achievement through an intimate exploration of our relationship with time, energy, and purpose. Written with raw honesty and keen psychological insight, this guide dismantles conventional productivity wisdom, revealing instead a deeply personal approach to getting things done. Through lyrical prose that reads like a conversation with a trusted friend, the book challenges our cultural obsession with optimization and efficiency, proposing instead that true productivity emerges from understanding our natural rhythms, embracing our peculiarities, and creating systems that work with our inherent patterns rather than against them. From the quiet spaces between thoughts to the dance of resistance, each chapter weaves together practical wisdom with philosophical reflection, offering a revolutionary perspective on how we can create space for what truly matters in our lives.

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  Comics: The Call and the Cost -...

  CJ Standal

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  Discover the reason comic creators toil away over ink stained pages, even when circumstances don't reward that hard work. 
  This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Witness creators navigate their passion and careers when faced with the intersection between art and commerce. 
  This stellar collection includes these essays: 
  1) The Cost of Comics: A History of the Comic Book Labor Movement 
  2) Marge Buell and Little Lulu: Women Warriors - America's Early Female Cartoonist Entrepreneur and Her Feminist Creation 
  3) Hector Oesterheld: Comics Own Martyr 
  4) David Mazzucchelli Walks Away from Superheroic Success for Indie Art 
  5) Jeff Smith and Bone: A Little Help from My Friends 
  6) A License to Cartoon: Art and Capitalism in the Works of Schulz, Davis, and Watterson 
  7) Epilogue or Why I Write: A Justification of Rejection, Torture, and Bliss

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  The White Allies Handbook - 4...

  Lecia Michelle

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  You've read White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist, but what comes next? The answer lies in this clear, actionable guide providing an invaluable four-week program for becoming an ally who makes a real difference in the racial justice fight. 
   
   
   
  Black women have always been the driving force behind real change in this country—especially when it comes to racial justice work. But they shouldn't have to do it alone. If you're ready to stop standing on the sidelines and become anti-racist instead of passively "not racist," then this book is what you need. You'll discover: how to have difficult conversations about white supremacy, racism, and white privilege; how to listen to criticism without defensiveness; why it's harmful to ignore race or claim to be colorblind; and how to expand your racial justice circle by joining groups led by Black women and cultivating a group of like-minded allies. 
   
   
    
  Racism can only be defeated if white people educate themselves and actively engage in antiracism work, especially in their inner circles. With this book, you'll learn how to change from someone who defends and protects racism to someone who fights against it. And you'll become an example to others that true allies are made, not born.

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  Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

  Immanuel Kant

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  Analysis of the writings of Kant's contemporary, the spiritualist religious philosopher Swedenborg, whose ideas still have a following in present times.

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  Living Like a Virgin - A Modern...

  Erika Mincey

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  You Don't Have to Be Perfect to Be Pure. 
  In a swipe-right culture, digital temptations, and shifting values, maintaining sexual purity can seem impossible. But God's design for your body, your heart, and your relationships remains unchanged—and His grace is more than enough for the journey. 
  Living Like a Virgin is a bold, faith-filled guide for singles who are choosing purity for the first time, recommitting after past experiences, or healing from wounds they never asked for. Erika combines biblical wisdom, real-life testimonies, and practical strategies to help you move from "Virginity Loss to Virginity Gain"—not by undoing the past, but by stepping into the new creation God has already made you. You'll discover how to:Overcome temptation and protect your heart, mind, and bodyEstablish non-negotiable boundaries and uphold them.Navigate modern dating and digital pressuresHeal from heartbreak, shame, and even sexual traumaCreate accountability systems and build a support community 
  Whether you're 18 or 48, this book meets you where you are with honesty, compassion, and zero condemnation. Purity isn't about perfection—it's about purpose. And the power to walk in it comes not from your own strength, but from God's transformative love. 

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  Ending the World Wars: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  For much of 1917, things went the Germans’ way. With the Bolshevik Revolution underway, the Germans were able to move soldiers to the Western front as the Russians quit the war. Moreover, the Allied powers had failed badly in its Nivelle Offensive in May 1917 and suffered a defeat in November against at the Battle of Caporetto in Slovenia. Unbelievably, the French and British had not bothered to coordinate their commands until after those defeats: they finally formed a Supreme Council to coordinate their armies’ movements and strategies. However, the Allied Powers began a counteroffensive known as the Hundred Days Offensive in August 1918 that was highly successful in pushing the Germans backward. In September, Bulgaria reached a separate armistice with the Allied powers, ceding control of the Balkans and cutting off German supplies. The defeated Ottoman Empire surrendered in late October. As the fortunes of the Central Powers waned, several lands in Austria-Hungary’s empire began declaring independence. Finally, in November, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced into exile, and the Germans reached an armistice with the Allied powers at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918. World War I had finally ended. 
  	After the successful amphibious invasion on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies began racing east toward Germany and liberating France along the way. The Allies had landed along a 50 mile stretch of French coast, and despite suffering 8,000 casualties on D-Day, over 100,000 still began the march across the western portion of the continent. By the end of August 1944, the German Army in France was shattered, with 200,000 killed or wounded and a further 200,000 captured. However, Adolf Hitler reacted to the news of invasion with glee, figuring it would give the Germans a chance to destroy the Allied armies that had water to their backs.

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