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This book examines the power of doing through not-doing. Should we act through inaction? Our society has reached its limits. A good strategy for addressing this problem is to allow inaction to become a productive way of acting--inaction as a point of reference for society. For only through conscious not-doing can we understand what is really essential.

"Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books--and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its chapters, "A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem," this collection is an unconventional memoir of one man and his culture, which also happens to be our own.

Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead...

After completing highly successful careers in naval intelligence, public affairs, and combat aircraft development, author Ned Conger has produced solutions to fifty-eight problems and situations, most of them applicable to every nation worldwide, but some designed for specific areas in the United States.

In Thinking Outside the Oven, he shares his thoughts on an array of subjects, the most important of which is a plan for countering global warming, a program that can be implemented immediately. In addition, he offers a series of essays that look at a wide range of topics—from...

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.