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The Author takes you on her journey into the depths of despair and depression while she struggles to survive in the world in which she finds herself. You'll come to know the characters she meets along the way, you'll laugh with her, shed a tear or two for her but many will relate to her experience and benefit from it.

Anyone who has ever been...

A recent college grad aspiring to be a writer-- for material- gets a job as a Courtesy Assistant in an upscale residential hotel. The female and male residents challenge his moral and sexual parameters.

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of the Enlightenment first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. According to Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of terms such as "l esprit philosophique" to describe what we would today call the Enlightenment. But...

Natural right the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are natural in origin is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right," Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the enemy of the human race an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls natural...

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of the Enlightenment first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. According to Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of terms such as "l esprit philosophique" to describe what we would today call the Enlightenment. But...

Natural right the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are natural in origin is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right," Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the enemy of the human race an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls natural...

How a billion-dollar business ascended from a forgotten dusty agave field in central Mexico

The Patron Way details the unorthodox building of the brand, the extraordinary creativity and marketing ingenuity of Patron's cofounder, Martin Crowley, and his life partner, Ilana Edelstein, and the way Patron single-handedly transformed the face of the liquor industry. Edelstein was involved in every aspect of the business--from the brand's iconic bottle to designing the sexy and...

The subject of midlife has been dominated by the woes of aging--menopause, divorce, hormone replacement therapies, aging parents, and fleeing children. Now a broad-ranging new work by clinical psychologist Linda N. Edelstein, Ph.D., "The Art of Midlife," describes the freedom and authenticity that can be made a cornerstone of the middle years. She describes three healthy and predictable phases. First, women relinquish old ways, untying themselves from the past and mourning the losses of youth and its illusions. By placing less emphasis on the needs of others, women can live more creatively...

From Oath to Action presents a bold, yet achievable, pathway to rebuilding American democracy. The book challenges our very understanding of what political leadership looks like in today's world. At a time when our political landscape looks increasingly bleak, this book inspires through its vision and its practicality.

Our democratic institutions need repairing-on that most Americans would agree. But institutions change only when the people in them change, and most people change only one step at a time.

Therein lies the path forward. We don't need politicians who will "fix...