Böcker av Jeff Taylor

In the year 2070 CE humanity entered the age of Enlightened Expansion (EE). RingTech opened the universe to human occupation and the Arcadian Path helped united most of us in a common dream for the future.Miles Finerty was the first person to breathe the air of an alien world, the first person to experience the mind bending effects of planet Arcadia. It led him to create the Arcadian Path - the path to a happier more fulfilling life, and a better civilization, - the philosophy that shaped civilization on most of the 222 United Worlds.Visit worlds where RingTech has revolutionized human society, where transportation across city, planet, or galaxy is only a button click away. How would people corrupt such a tool? You could look into a neighbors bedroom or empty a bank vault. You could open a portal and dump molten magma or raw sewage directly into the Presidents office.Follow Nava and Cromen, lovers from opposite ends of society, as they get pulled innocently into the most dangerous threat the United Worlds has ever known. Travel with them to planets Heaven and Hell and back again as they battle against the corrupt Orthodox Waru leaders. They only wanted to be together and have a little adventure. Will Nava and Cromen ever get home? Will the United Worlds survive?

This work illuminates, identifies, and characterizes the influences and expressions of Bob Dylan's Political World throughout his life and career. An approach nearly as unique as the singer himself, the authors attempt to remove Dylan from the typical Left/Right paradigm and place him into a broader and deeper context.

Featuring a foreword by Congressman Glen Browder, Politics on a Human Scale examines political decentralization in the United States, from the founding of the republic to the present.Part of the desirable equilibrium is a sense of proportionality. Some sizes, some amounts, some levels are more appropriate than others. Decentralism is the best political tool to ensure equilibrium, to promote proportionality, and to obtain appropriate scale. Power distribution should be as wide as possible. Government functions should be as close to the people as practicable. In this way, individual human beings are not swallowed by a monstrous Leviathan. Persons are not at the mercy of an impersonal bureaucracy led by the far-away few. Decentralism gives us politics on a human scale. It gives us more democracy within the framework of a republic. The longest chapters in the book deal with crucial turning points in U.S. historyspecifically, when decentralists lost the upper-hand in the two major political parties. Decentralism in our nation runs deep, both intellectually and historically. It also has considerable popular support. Yet today it is a virtual political orphan. In Washington, neither major political party is serious about dispersing power to lower levels of government or to the people themselves. Still, there are dissident politicians and political movements that remain committed to the decentralist principle.Power needs to be held in check, partly through decentralization, because power holds a great and dangerous attraction for humans. Recognition of this human tendency is the first step in guarding against it and getting back on a better path.