Bøger af Mike Stone

It's all here - everything you need to know to become a man, no matter what your age. In this ultimate self-help book for boys, you will find successful life strategies, practical advice that works, and tips for teenage boys that no one else has ever told you before, and that no one else will ever tell you again. Read this book and discover for yourself: 7 Magic Words to Cool a Heated Argument and Open Any DoorHow to Make People Trust YouWhy Your Words Have PowerHow to Avoid Trouble Before it Happens and How to Be Ready If it DoesEasy, Result-Producing Exercises to Build Your Body FastHow to Attract Girls - and Why You Shouldn'tWhy You Should Never Enlist in the MilitaryAn Instant Litmus Test for Girls - If They Do This, Dump Them ImmediatelyHow Hollywood Movies and Television are Deliberately Setting You Up for Failure (It's Even Worse for Girls)Why So Many Men Go Their Own Way with Women (MGTOW)Wealth, Money, Power! How Men Handle Money . . . and How You Should TooWhat's Wrong with the World Today and How You Can Fix ItSelf-Help Books for Boys and Teens The Most Amazing Journey of Your Life Starts Right Here You're going to encounter some absolutely mind-blowing information in this book. How you process that information is entirely up to you. You can dismiss it without cause . . . Or embrace it and become a man. One thing I guarantee - you won't be bored. From this day forward, you'll know exactly what it takes to become a man. You'll know what's expected of you and how to begin planning the remainder of your life. Consider today to be the dividing point between your time on this earth as a boy and your time on this earth as a man. Inside this book you'll find ten important steps to master. Master these ten steps and you'll be a man, no matter what your age. In fact, you don't even have to master these steps. Just become proficient in them, just become better than average, because here's a secret: most adult men never master them. Most adult men are lucky if they become proficient in only two or three of these ten steps. Only a handful of men have mastered more than five or six of them and I've never met a man who has mastered all ten. Here's another secret: men today are a pathetic lot. They've become weak, feminine, facsimiles of real men. If you become proficient in these ten steps, you'll stand head and shoulders above them. You'll be a man among men. So here's your key to success . . . Do your best at mastering these ten steps and you'll be so far ahead of the pack your friends and family will be amazed. In return, I promise to give it to you straight in the pages of this book. I'm going to explain to you in simple language the way life really works. It's not what you think. It's not what you've been taught in school and it's not what you've read in any other book or heard from any other person. Over the next few minutes, you're going to read things that will leave you stunned, breathless, and eager for more. Reality as you know it is about to be turned upside down. Before you finish reading this book, you'll have a stronger grasp on reality than anyone you know and anyone else you'll ever meet. Are you ready to take that journey? If so, then I invite you now to come along for the ride of your life. The first step is easy. Simply open the book and begin reading. Note to parents: If you're looking for the typical feel-good book about being true to yourself and "following your dreams," this isn't that book. What's more, your son doesn't need that. What he needs is cold, hard, practical advice about the reality of life. That's what this book delivers. It's 240 power-packed pages of solid advice for teen boys. It's not for wimps.

Have you taken the COVID-19 vaccine? Are you concerned about the vaccine's side effects? Are you worried about shedding from people who have taken the COVID-19 vaccine? You're not alone. There are millions of more people just like you. Unlike the many gloom-and-doomers out there, I do not subscribe to the theory that all is lost, that the ill effects of the jab are irreversible, a burden one must carry for the rest of their life.The reason I don't believe this is because everyone who has studied health and the human body on any level knows that there are natural ways to heal every disease under the sun: cancer, arthritis, diabetes, Alzheimer's, poor vision ... you name it, there are ways to heal it. Why should the jab be any different? Why should this be the only incurable condition known to man? It's simply not logical.In this book you will find proven protocols for reversing the damage done by drugs and debilitating illness. Discover for yourself how to cleanse, strengthen and heal your body, how to rebuild your immune system from the ground up and how to return your body to a paradise of vibrant health.

Are you a Christian? Are you concerned about the COVID-19 vaccine and its relationship to the Mark of the Beast as prophesied in the Bible? If so, this is a book you should read. Revelations 13:16-18 states: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Does that sound familiar to you? In France, no one is allowed to enter any store without showing proof of COVID-19 vaccination. The same thing is happening in parts of Australia and the Philippines. In the United States, the cities of New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles have launched similar plans. Are you familiar with H.R. Bill 6666? How about patent number WO/2020/060606? Are those numbers just a coincidence? Read this book and discover for yourself the startling truth about the world we live in.

Whirlpool is the third novel in the Rational Series. The first was about a robot civilization that rose from a single robot that had attained consciousness after being created by a team of human programmers and how love clashed with rationality. The second was about a new species of rational humanoids (Rats for Rationals) evolved from our human species (Saps for Sapiens) that had been resurrected by the robots in the first novel. The Saps, in their prejudice and hatred, waged war against the Rats and lost, just as the Neanderthals lost to the Homo Sapiens. I'm really excited about the third novel. I think it's my best so far, although it is much more challenging for my readers. I'll try to tell you a little about it without spoiling the experience for you. Whirlpool is an experimental novel, a kind of psychological science fiction story. There are three interwoven sub-plot lines whirling around each other which will finally come together at the end of the story. The first sub-plot involves the main character, an old man in an asylum for the insane in the year 2070. He is in love with one of the characters in a story he wrote. In fact he prefers the company of the characters he created to real live people. The characters of whom he is so enamored in this novel are the characters from my two previous novels. Of course he is in love with Ellen. He also seems to be moving backwards in time, but that is not so surprising in light of the fact that the whole universe is moving backwards in time. He turns to Lem and Yani for help. The second sub-plot is about a virtual being, called a Thot, who is traveling through space and time in a meme, which is a kind of capsule, to an unknown world on a deadly mission. We are sympathetic toward this Thot and admire his tenacity until, too late, we realize what his mission is. The third sub-plot, mostly hidden from the readers until the last chapter, is what is really going on in this story. Is this reality, or at least what passes for reality in science fiction and science fantasy, or is this the hallucination of a demented individual? The main character can't tell. Can you? Why is this novel part of the Rational Series? What is the story's connection to rationality? It explores the limits of rationality and the ultimate inability of rationality to rescue you from your own insanity. You can never be the person on the shore or the thrown life preserver, and the drowning person in the whirlpool.

Some of the stories are fictional, like "Investigations of a Kafkaesque Nature" about the philosophical ruminations of a dog, "An Idea for a Short Story" about a man who has suffered a stroke and comes out of it after his granddaughter reads him his poems, and "A Walk in the Desert" about a man who gets lost in the desert, has a friendly argument with God, and is rescued by those he thought were coming to kill him. Some of the stories are biographical, like "Grandma", about the strong, loving woman, with whom our parents deposited us when they went on their summer vacations, "Getting into Trouble", about the time my friend and I took a bus to an amusement park in another town and had to walk back home because we'd spent too much money on rides and hotdogs, and "Dancing with Anna" about the time my wife asked me if I'd like to invite the beautiful salon dancer, Anna A., to our home to teach me how to dance, and I said yes, which my wife did not expect.

"Out of Time" is the fourth science fiction novel in the Rational Series. It takes off sometime after the end of "The Rats and the Saps" where Sapiens are at peace with Rationals and vacationing on each others' worlds. Tourism is complicated by the fact that Sapiens come from a 3-dimensional world and the Rational world is 11-dimensional. After nearly getting himself killed while trying to walk in a Rational park, Cadmus is rescued by a Rational couple, Remi and Galen, and nursed back to health. After Cadmus returns home to his world, Galen visits Cadmus with an urgent request to stop a vastly superior species, called the Frats (Future Rationals) from dismantling our Universe, hypercube by hypercube. Cadmus agrees to come along, although he doesn't see what he could possibly do to help, as long as he can bring along his trusty dagu, Lonesome.

"The Meandering" is Mike Stone's sixth book of poetry. It contains all new poems covering the years from 2020 to 2021. It represents a slow, seemingly purposeless movement, and a stopping to notice people and things that he might not have noticed before. Subjects that were urgent before swap places with subjects that seem more worthy of notice and appreciation now. "A Good Scritching" and "Interpretations of Silence" are meditations on his dog, Daisy, her practical attitude and what she loved. "Rehearsal" is about how we leave our bodies behind in dreams and death. "Clocks" is about how poorly clocks measure our time. "You Have to Know the Language" is about the time when language was our world and our mind. "A Psalm for our Times" is a modern prayer we might say while walking through the city streets at night. "The Fog Rolls in" describes our experience of our diminishing cognitive faculties. "Moving On" is about the inability to move on until grief loosens its grip.

This book of poetry is dedicated to all those gentle souls who have been wounded by love and survived. There is no promise of hope that everything will work out in the end, no words of succor or justification that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, and no heroic poem such as Homer might have sung before a prescient chorus. There is only a haphazard chronicling of the chimerical forms love has taken and the wounds it has inflicted on us again and again. The reader may recognize the face of a loved one in one of love's innumerable forms or wince at a familiar pain from one of the wounds inflicted on him or her by love.

Don't look now, but it's 2016 all over again. Marxist-spouting professors. Tolerant liberals refusing to be tolerant. Angry protesters beating motorists and appropriating their cars in the name of "justice." Is this hell? No, it's Los Angeles. On the most divisive day of the year, in the most racially-charged city in America, recently red-pilled movie producer John Duke is about to learn what political correctness really means: marching with the herd or losing everything. Set on Election Day in 2016, this is one man's desperate attempt to save both himself and his family."Satire doesn't get any more biting than this.""Black comedy at its most provocative. A searing indictment of the liberal left."A PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR"A New America" takes place on Election Day 2016 in the city of Los Angeles. It follows a dozen or so characters from morning until night. You could say it's similar in structure to the movie "Crash," only told through the lens of reality, not the slick Hollywood pablum we're used to seeing.From the rise of antifa and BLM, to the Communist overthrow of our government, to the child sex trafficking scandals currently sweeping through Hollywood, everything that is currently happening in our society was foreshadowed in this book, which came out months before all of those events unfolded. Want to know where our country is headed next? Read this book. If you love God, if you love America, this is your story. Alt-right movement, humor, dark humor, black humor, humor books, Comedy, comedy books, black comedy, political books, political fiction, political comedy, satire, best satirical books, satirical fiction, alt right, identity politics, nationalism, white nationalism, black nationalism, contemporary fiction, workplace comedy, Los Angeles, novels set in Los Angeles, Hollywood novels, comedy fiction, dark humor, dark comedy, black comedy

Al Brandler meant different things to different people. To me and my siblings, he was simply Uncle Al. Originally from Brooklyn and having lived in both the U.S. and Israel, he developed a unique way of viewing the world around him, as evidenced by his varied writing endeavors throughout the years. His works include clever short stories with surprise endings, compositions full of humor, articles espousing his political and social wisdom, and more... Includes short biography.

"Call of the Whippoorwill" is Mike Stone's fourth book of poetry. It contains all new poems covering the years from 2017 to 2019. The poetry in this book reflects the unique perspectives and experiences of an American in Israel. The book is a smorgasbord of descriptions, empathies, wonderings, and questionings.

This is the first book in The Rational Series. The story is about a robot who achieved consciousness at 3:34 pm and fell in love by 4:00 pm with Ellen, a brilliant and beautiful woman from the team that had programmed the robot. The story spans eons and worlds as the Tin Man tries to work out love's algorithm while attempting to survive its throes.

"The Hoopoe's Call" is Mike Stone's fifth book of poetry and sequel to his "Call of the Whippoorwill". It contains all new poems covering the years from 2019 to 2020. The hoopoe is Israel's national bird and has occupied a special place in Israeli lore at least as far back as King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Both birds have a personal meaning for the author: the whippoorwill represents the first half of Mike's life, growing up in America, while the hoopoe represents the second half of his life, maturing and discovery in Israel. The poetry in this book reflects the unique perspectives and experiences of an American in Israel. The book is rich in nuanced description. The title poem, "The Hoopoe's Call" is an alternate legend about King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, drawing from ancient Hebrew and Ethiopian sources. "Rezek", "Yuval", "Jameela", and "Shebi" are four poems skewered by a single timeline through both sides of the Israel-Gaza border. "Her Columbus" is an empathetic poem about the author's stepmother, a 97-year-old child living and dying in a demented but parallel universe. "Body and Soul' is about the constant change of physical things in time's dimension and the unchanging nature of the soul, which is untouched by time.

"The Sylvan Dialogues" is Mike Stone's tenth book of poetry, a collection of poems from 2022. If you have ever meandered through a dense forest at night alone with your thoughts with no particular place to be or time to be at, then these poems are for you.There are poems about what it's like to live in unpoetic times, about words that should exist but don't, and about questions that should be asked but are not.There are poems about leaving notes for your wife so she won't worry but she's no longer among the living, about letters we might write to our enemies so that we'll stop killing each other, and about a father, a son, and a ghost.The poems range over a wide expanse of time and space, subjects, and cultures.

Living with Restenosis is a 2-in-1 book including Surviving a Successful Heart Attack -and- Chronic Total Occlusion: After the Heart Attack, the Statins and Restenosis. They compliment each other; they convey the whole story. 'Surviving' covers the period of discovering that my first 50 years of personal dietary guidelines were based on mass-media advertising and bad science (lipid hypothesis). It ends after recuperating from both the physical heart attack and the statin-induced side effects; however, what next? Chronic Total Occlusion (previously published in 2007 as 'The Next 20,000'), is that new direction, which includes living with stent restenosis. To the casual reader, the lifestyle changes I have made may be construed as radical. That is what makes 'Chronic Total Occlusion' incomplete. Without experiencing the emotional scars described in SASHA that have remained following those two statin-induced side effect years, the reader of 'CTO' will not be able to appreciate a lifestyle I now accept as totally normal.

The complete set of novels from The Rational Series, including "Why Is Unit 142957 Sad? (or The Tin Man's Heart), "The Rats and the Saps", "Whirlpool", and Öut of Time". The first novel is about a love affair between a robot and the beautiful programmer who created it, in an epic spanning millions of years and two galaxies. The second novel is about a war between Sapiens and a new species of humans, called Rationals. The third novel is an experimental psycho-science-fiction story taking place sometime in the future, involving an author in a mental institution and his characters. The fourth novel is about a battle to save the universe, between Rationals and Sapiens on one side and a species far superior to them. All this in one book!

The nightmare of cardiologists performing PCI (stent implantation) is the eventual blockage of the stent, a process known as restenosis which can result in sudden death. My MI (heart attack) was in 2001. I discontinued taking statin medication in 2003, following 2 years of statin induced side effects, and the realization that the lipid hypothesis is totally unfounded. Routine testing (2006/2007) showed that the stent in my critical LAD artery (widow maker artery) is 100% blocked - full restenosis -Chronic Total Occlusion. However I lead a very full and active life. My changing lifestyle over the last several years has promoted the generation and development of alternative blood vessels circumventing my blocked artery. Further invasive intervention (bypass) is presently not in the works. I explain the life style changes that I have adapted, and substantiate my reasons for doing so. This is the sequel to 'Surviving a Successful Heart Attack' and supersedes 'The Next 20,000' which is no longer available.

Bemused is Mike Stone's third book of poetry, covering the years from 2016 to 2017. The title means "perplexed" but Mike intended a more literal meaning: "in thrall to the Muse". Mike has been in the Muse's thrall for most of his seventy years. This collection shows his maturity as a writer and his courage in facing the dilemmas of life's endgame without fear or delusion.

Not so much a book of poetry and short stories as a book of visitations lovingly recorded for those who need to see them.

This is the second book in The Rational Series. The local robot colony had received reports over the QEB that another human species had appeared near the colony in Draco, of all places. Both human species lived on Draco.763.3b, but in different sectors of the planet. The robots reported that there did not appear to be any kind of sexual commingling between the two groups. Wherever there was competition between them for scarce resources on that impoverished world the new species seemed to beat out the old. The robots called the new species rationals since that seemed to be their dominant characteristic. Robots everywhere were amazed that rationality could have evolved spontaneously as a genetic mutation among biological entities. This tended to lend credence to theories of quantum evolution over theories of biological evolution. Sapiens differentiated the new species on the basis of skin color. The skin pigment of the new human species was indigo blue. The rationals pretty much stayed to themselves. Neither the Sapiens nor their possessions seemed to hold any attraction for the rationals. The opposite was hardly the case. The Sapiens proved to be intensely jealous of the rationals, their possessions, their successes, and their imperturbability. The Sapiens tried to attack and ambush the rationals, but every time the rationals seemed to side-step them easily. Eventually ... well, read the book to find out about the fate of our distant relatives.

"The title Living in Paradise can be disarming. Beware, paradise can cost you more than money." This book is a guide for foreigners or non-nationals desiring to move and live in another country. This book gives examples of some of the pitfalls that a foreigner may encounter. The main areas of concerns are loving, living, building, and buying in that country of choice. They must remember that they are guests in that country and that they should act and behave as such. One should be familiar with the laws regarding ownership of property, buying or leasing of land, and ownership of constructed homes, apartments and condominiums. Customs and traditions should always be honored and respected. Another critical area is in creating and maintaining love or romantic relationships; most often there is a wide discrepancy in the ages of the participants. Being in love is a great feeling, just be aware of the laws regarding land ownership, and construction of homes, and other properties like automobiles. The geographic location a person chooses to live can be considered paradise, but you don't have to go through hell to get to heaven.

They were the boom years in Portland, Oregon tennis history; the 1970s and 1980s. Future pro stars such as Tracy Austin and Boris Becker tasted success for the first time on Portland's tennis courts. A Davis Cup championship thrilled Portland's tennis fans. Prior to the boom years the City of Roses attracted the "exhibitions" featuring Suzanne Lenglen, Bill Tilden, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer and others with matches played on converted ice skating rinks or in livestock pavilions. World Team Tennis brought more tennis "stars" to the City.

The Poet is one in a series of nine books. Each book was a personal challenge to express myself on various subjects I wanted to learn about.The Poet was written from personal experiences, lessons, I've learned throughout my life. From these lessons I came to know myself, understanding the thoughts and feelings I had about life, family, friends, romantic relationships, places, people, natural and the universe laws and through their application create a better version of myself.I created a simple and easy formula anyone can apply to achieve instantaneous positive results in creating yourself anew. It would be difficult for me to explain at this time, let alone for most people to believe or understand how I created myself as an instantaneous poet with no formal education or training on the subject. In fact, English was my worse subject in high school and if it wasn't for the help I received from my girlfriend, I probably would have never graduated. I also used this knowledge to instantaneously create myself as an artist, with remarkable results.Since I used to have an issue with communicating my thoughts and feelings I found it much easier and more natural for me to express myself through writing poetry. The feelings and thoughts expressed flowed effortlessly in words and phrases were easily understood by anyone even with a basic understanding of the English language. No difficult words are needed to speak the truth from one's soul.No difficult words are needed to speak the truth from one's soul.The biggest secret in life is there are no secrets, only knowledge we have not acquired yet. The Universe does not hide anything from us, we need to pay more attention about what's out there.

The Uncollected Essays, Conjectures, and Whatnot of Mike Stone is compiled from his blog UncollectedWorks, covering the years from 2011 to 2016. Mike writes on philosophy, writing, religion, war, space and time, and politics, no holds barred, all fair (or unfair) game. For those of you who have read and followed Mike's poetry, sci-fi novels, and blog, this will be a particularly good read. Mike was born and raised in America but has lived over half his life in Israel. He is married with three sons and five grandchildren.

A guided tour of the historic town of Chippenham, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.

"Ryan Turner was standing alone on the subway platform when he saw the punch coming." Growing up white isn't easy, especially in a mixed-race school in the heart of Hollywood, California, but 17-year-old Ryan Turner is doing the best he can. Between taunts from his teachers, race riots in the cafeteria, and threats of detention, Ryan is just trying to get through the day. A mad, hysterical world where teachers peddle Marxist ideology, pinch-nosed white girls apologize for their "racism," and everyone strives to avoid the ultimate in humiliation: diversity training. A young adult novel about race, dating and growing up in America. Books for Teens It's hard to find good books for teens that actually deal with reality. This is one of those rare books that doesn't pander or condescend to its readers. A hard-hitting, realistic portrayal of life in 21st century America.Mike Stone is the author of A New America.5 Stars! "A fast-paced, exciting novel."5 Stars! "A well-written book of an America gone mad."5 Stars! "Read it in one sitting. Had to remind myself it's supposed to be fiction."5 Stars! "You would never see a book written like this in mainstream publications."5 Stars! "More!! Great read." Shelve with young adult novels, teen novels, dark humor novels, coming of age novels, books for teens, books for teenagers, books for young adults, books for boys, books for teen boys, books about race and racism for teens, books for teen girls, coming of age novels.

A photographic history of the changing face of Chippenham

Fully illustrated description of the Wiltshire town of Chippenham's well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.