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This is volume three in the series The Judge and the Creative Positivist. "The U.S. democracy will survive only if there is a peaceful transfer of power after the members of the Electoral College meet and cast their votes for the winner of the election. The election is a contest. Like all contests, it must result in a winner (unless there is a tie). If the winner of the election does not become the president, there will be no democracy and th...

This is volume three in the series The Judge and the Creative Positivist. "The U.S. democracy will survive only if there is a peaceful transfer of power after the members of the Electoral College meet and cast their votes for the winner of the election. The election is a contest. Like all contests, it must result in a winner (unless there is a tie). If the winner of the election does not become the president, there will be no democracy and th...

How do birds see the world? Do they have a totally different way of experiencing life than humans do? Are they stoic? Is their threshold of pain and loneliness completely different from ours? Can a bird die of a broken heart? 'In case you haven't figured it out, what I'm trying to say is that when I was six years old and had a guinea pig, I didn't ask any of these kinds of questions. The guinea pig was just a damn guinea pig and I petted it ...

Luna has always wanted a puppy of her very own! Mochi, a creamy-white, fluffy Shiba Inu is her dream come true. (Mochi means rice cake in Japanese!) The pair are inseparable... UNTIL... a terrible storm comes while they are out walking. Where does the scared little Mochi run to? Who does she meet? And who shows her the way home? Children of all ages will love this story and the 40-page colour pictures that illustrate Mochi's adventures. A...

Written in 1970, this unique travelogue looks back on an enigmatic Englishman's travels through post-war Europe, as both author and continent search for identity. The most pleasant and inspiring of travel companions, Gordon gives us period photographs, and contemporary View-Master images as he attempts to answer the age-old question "Why do we travel?" Whether he is writing about his curious bookshop in Bath, his even more mysterious employer,...

This book is the second of four volumes published under the series title The Judge and the Creative Positivist. Creative positivism is a legal philosophy that is an extension of H.L.A. Hart's legal positivist theory presented in his classic work The Concept of Law. David Moskowitz has a unique relationship with The Concept of Lawbecause Hart was his tutor and used his critique of The Concept of Law as the basis for deciding that he would quali...

The old man scratched his head. On the one hand he wanted every creature's story to be told and respected. On the other hand he knew all stories were partial and that real truth could never be told. Never ever can you understand another life - or even your own. Is this a tragedy or a blessing? The old man pondered." Expanding on the fergusonian universe, often explored in his fiction titles, Jon Ferguson shares an old man's ponderings on su...

Enter a world both magical and real where squirrels talk, skotis battle with aretis, and friendships are made. Gab and Raphaela the squirrels are delighted to invite Johnny, Paulo, Josiane and Tatiana into their natural, but mystical, world. A world where each character has a story to share and where love ultimately triumphs. Beautifully written with descriptions that will remain with you. Translated from the French novel, also published May 2...

An established author, Maria Andreas felt moved to write a journal during March and April 2020. A "question-answer-supplication" to a loving God who allows 'the tenth plague' (in the form of the evil little Minus) to delight in death and havoc. It is both a searching, intensely intimate response to the pandemic and a cinematic sweep across a dark and altered world. Readers, with or without faith, will not fail to be moved by Andreas's sensitiv...

A unique, intimate and moving pilgrimage on an island that Maria Andreas describes with emotion, humour and tenderness. She fell in love with this "big pebble" a while ago. Nearly three decades. She stayed there a long time, learned its language, its history and its culture, before setting down there that which she confides to be "the best part of her heart". Maria has books published in French, German and English and a vibrant engaging webs...

This book is the second of four volumes published under the series title The Judge and the Creative Positivist. Creative positivism is a legal philosophy that is an extension of H.L.A. Hart's legal positivist theory presented in his classic work The Concept of Law. David Moskowitz has a unique relationship with The Concept of Lawbecause Hart was his tutor and used his critique of The Concept of Law as the basis for deciding that he would quali...

WHEN REVENGE IS NOT ENOUGH... After the murder of their beloved battalion commander, two Marines are forced to confront their heartbreaking pasts while scouring the jungle in search of the killer. Their search is haunted by a Japanese soldier running the jungles, refusing to surrender. Along the way, both confront their buried, pent-up emotions through forgiveness and love: one through the love of a Filipino woman and the other through coming ...

Jon Ferguson's Three Forgotten Tales tenderly rewrite* the story of Jesus, his life, crucifixion, and legacy. *If you are a Christian you might be offended by some of the rewriting. Written mainly around imagined conversations between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, their son God, and an array of characters mostly mythical and mystical who span 2000 years, it contains breathtaking descriptions of and insights into power, nature and - most of al...

Jon Ferguson's Three Forgotten Tales tenderly rewrite the story of Jesus, his life, crucifixion, and legacy. Written mainly around imagined conversations between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, their son God, and an array of characters mostly mythical and mystical who span 2000 years, it contains breathtaking descriptions of and insights into power, nature and - most of all - perfect love. Regardless of your religious or philosophical convictio...

TO SAY THAT Professor Lenny Fuller has an irreverent attitude to dusty, unimaginative, uninspiring academia is an understatement. But he carries on handing out his A+ grades to new tranches of anthropology students, one eye set on his students' horizons and the other on his imminent retirement. Meanwhile the university hierarchy has its eyes set on him. So, when he swaps his staid corduroys for hip hop polyester and starts lecturing in explici...

WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER I joined a radical religious cult." With a candour that continues throughout, so begins John Titus's detailed and absorbing account of the eight years he spent with the 'Children of God' or the 'Family': from the moment he stepped onto the 'Loony Bus' as an 18-year-old Christian and swapped 'John' for 'Salem', through eager passion, doubt, and concern, to quitting the cult in his mid-twenties with his wife and young son. ...

Three Forgotten Tales, of which 'God & Naomi' is the concluding, ground-shifting title, is a trilogy that rewrites the story of Jesus, his life, crucifixion, and legacy. Written mainly around imagined conversations between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Pilate and several disciples, the books also contain breathtaking descriptions of power, nature and - most of all - love. Regardless of your religious or philosophical convictions, all three volumes...

Three Forgotten Tales, of which 'Mary & God' is the second, is a trilogy that rewrites the story of Jesus, his life, crucifixion, and legacy. Written mainly around imagined conversations between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Pilate and several disciples, the books also contain breathtaking descriptions of power, nature and - most of all - love. Regardless of your religious or philosophical convictions, all three volumes will leave you deeply moved...

I didn't see my father again until the morgue yesterday. He looked all right, a little pinker and puffier than usual. Then they closed the lid." For Adam Lamb, this loss is definitely not an existentialist experience. Instead, the funeral guests - who slowly drift in to a service where the pastor's only role is to keep his mouth shut and let the music play - open the lid on his dad's own philosophy. In a tender moment, with the friends, ex-lov...

Three Forgotten Tales, of which 'Jesus & Mary' is the first, is a trilogy that rewrites the story of Jesus, his life, crucifixion, and legacy. Written mainly around imagined conversations between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Pilate and several disciples, the books also contain breathtaking descriptions of power, nature and - most of all - love. Regardless of your religious or philosophical convictions, all three volumes will leave you deeply move...