New Book Release: The Handy American Government Answer Book

The Handy American Government Answer Book by Gina Misiroglu

The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government and political system should work, much less how it actually operates. On one level, it's a complex, interlocking world veiled in power brokering, bureaucracy, and big money. On another, it's the biggest, richest, most influential organization in the world, for better or worse.

Understanding how modern America is managed and governed is more vital than ever, but television, radio, newspapers, and social media frequently aim to spin, seduce, and sell product rather than serve anything resembling the truth. Filling the breach and answering basic questions about how our very complex government operates and what it promises, The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics, and Elections Work takes a comprehensive look at the systems, people, and policies that comprise American democracy, providing much-needed clarity to the current political drama.

This informative book traces the historic development of the government, the functions of each branch of government, and how they work together. It provides clear and concise definitions of who does what and why. Written in an entertaining, reader-friendly, question-and-answer format, The Handy American Government Answer Book deciphers the news behind the headlines through well-researched answers to nearly 800 common questions. You will also read about such fascinating tidbits as:

• Why is America's democratic system considered so precious? • How are shifting demographics related to the electorate? • What can Americans do to influence their government? • Did the framers of the Constitution place equal weight on the concepts of liberty, equality, and democracy? • What does 'checks and balances' mean? • What generally happens when members of Congress act inappropriately? • How many presidents have been impeached? • How does a case reach the U.S. Supreme Court? • Which president appointed the most justices? • How do civil liberties differ from civil rights? • How does the Bill of Rights protect individual liberties? • Is measuring public opinion a new phenomenon in politics? • What does the concept 'majority rule with minority rights' mean? • Why has trust in the government declined? • What does it mean to lobby? • How are PAC donations and political decisions linked? • Where do the party symbols of the donkey and the elephant come from? • What is electoral realignment? • Who pays for the campaigns of candidates? • Did the electoral college ever vote unanimously for a president?

This handy primer also includes numerous illustrations, graphs, tables, a helpful bibliography, and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. In the midst of the overheated rhetoric of the moment and the fast-changing, crisis-dominated world, a well-informed citizenry armed with The Handy American Government Answer Book is the best defense against political and corporate chicanery!

New Book Release: The Flood's Lover

The Flood's Lover by Liam Drake

On a routine business trip, Henry picks up a handsome guy needing a lift to New Mexico. He soon realizes that the man is more than he seems, and the storms that keep chasing them are no coincidence. Holding on to the kind of love and passion he's always wanted but was too afraid to reach for will be the most difficult thing he's ever done.

New Book Release: A Deathly Undertaking

A Deathly Undertaking by Crymsyn Hart

Being an undertaker is never easy when the dead can kill you.

Darria Savege is an undertaker's assistant. When her boss is killed, she assumes the job of undertaker and all the strange things that go with it. She awakens a mummified hand named Omar. She works with a grim reaper named Oliver who collects the souls of the bodies she works on. New and strange powers awaken within her. A dark necromancer is after something in her morgue.

All she has to do is avoid being killed by him or by some of the bodies she works on. But that's not the real dilemma. Medusa is trying to get out of purgatory and turn the world to stone, and Darria is the only one who can stop her. 

New Book Release: The New World Order Book

The New World Order Book by Nick Redfern

Turbulent times. Economic disruptions. Wars and civil strife. Hidden and secret cabals. Global elites. Mysterious symbols. Missing money. Surveillance and microchips. Where is the world heading? Just who has control, and what are their goals?

While we are assured by our leaders that global treaties and international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and United Nations are wholly benign and beneficial in nature, are they actually the foundation for an authoritarian world government? Are powerful cabals and front organizations orchestrating political and financial events in a nefarious attempt destroy individual nations and achieve world domination?

Uncovering more than 200 events, organizations, people, symbols, pop-cultural references, and other examples underlying suspicions of the looming New World Order, The New World Order Book reveals and uncovers the truth behind the disconcerting reasons for the rapidly expanding militarization of the police; the increase in doctors prescribing mood-changing drugs to the nation’s children; the manipulative actions of the Illuminati and the Freemasons; population control; the surveillance of social media, emails, and phone calls; Project Blue Beam: an alleged, top secret program to create a faked alien invasion; the rise of a so-called Fourth Reich; the further expansion of the Patriot Act; suspicious deaths; “end times” scenarios; banking elites; and the microchipping and tracking of the human population; to name just a few.

Tracing the power and destructive effects of the global elite and their plots, The New World Order Book exposes their unpleasant reach into the daily operations of today’s world. It also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.

New Book Release: Shulchan Aruch English Vol. 5: Hilchot Shabbat, Part 2

Shulchan Aruch English Vol. 5: Hilchot Shabbat, Part 2 by R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, trans. by R. Eliyahu Touger

The laws regarding Shabbos: the 39 melachos and their rabbinic prohibitions.

New Book Release: Shulchan Aruch English Vol. 4: Hilchot Shabbat, Part 1

Shulchan Aruch English Vol. 4: Hilchot Shabbat, Part 1 by R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, trans. by R. Eliyahu Touger

Laws regarding Shabbos: preparations, prayers, candle lighting, kiddush, havdalah & conduct.

Chapters 242 - 300

The code of Jewish Law of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

The Shulchan Aruch concerns itself with the here and now of daily existence. Indeed, it seems that no detail of mundane life is left unexamined and undisciplined by the law, of halacha, of Torah.

With profound joy we now present the fourth installment of the new edition of an English translation of Rabbi Schneur Zalman's second magnum opus, Shulchan Aruch HaRav, the Code of Jewish Law.

New Book Release: The Lawyer and the Mystic

The Lawyer and the Mystic by Robert Kremnizer

Jerry Aronstein had taken a long time learning how to live.

But he's never learned to die.

The lawyer & the mystic profiles a life of seeming success relived during an unexpected encounter with death. The sagely teachings mouthed by the Mystic in this story - penetrating perspectives on happiness, purpose and responsibility - belong wholly to the Rebbes of Chabad, condensed and reframed to give readers of every race, religion or creed access to their wisdom.