A wild, zany - and very funny - romp as a motley crew of athletes save the London 2012 Olympics from the bizarre machinations of a crazed dictator. P G Wodehouse meets Tom Sharpe-with a dash of Spike Milligan! In this novel, set in Wales, the land of poets and sporting heroes, Rowan Jones, the up-and-coming Welsh poet, accidentally finds himself attracting a motley crew of disaffected athletes from all over the world to his eccentric farmhouse deep in the heart of Wales. From here they discover and brilliantly thwart the plans, and earn their place in Olympic history.

Dreams of Gold

Literature & Fiction

Chamberlain, Jonathan

Humor & Satire

Long Island Press

The story of America, as told to us by the political establishment, is not unlike Scripture that attempts to explain our circumstances in a manner that must be accepted as gospel. The truth is that America has been hijacked by powerful special corporate interests whose paths toward profit are lubricated by political accomplices complicit in a scheme that suppresses opportunity and freedom among the masses. Our state of denial has caused us to drift far from the nation we believe ourselves to be while holding tightly to an image of the nation we wish to be.  Such is the state of our disunion. Welcome to The Great American Disconnect.  Our laws equate corporations with people. Our government favors progress at any cost over preservation at every cost. We use food to make fuel while children go hungry, vilify climate science and freely refer to environmentalism as a form of Nazism—as if protecting that which gives life to the planet is somehow evil. We claim to honor our soldiers but where is the honor in deploying them just to protect our oil interests? We attack corporate subsidies for renewable energy while protecting tax breaks and loopholes for large fossil fuel companies. An aging middle class population, which for years paid into the Social Security and Medicare systems, believes such programs should be abolished for future generations. Fiscal conservatives call for more deregulation—the most liberal and irresponsible of economic beliefs—a strategy that nearly led to the collapse of the entire economic system.  In 1929 the American economy collapsed under its own weight; the result of hubris, greed and the belief that progress was a fundamental and irreversible aspect of capitalism. The primary distinction between then and now is that today's American economic system isn't collapsing from the top down; it's rotting from the inside out. This is what happens when an organism is beset by disease.  The Great American Disconnect explores the democratic creation myth and attempts to verbalize the malaise that has taken hold of our political system.

The Great American Disconnect: Seven Fundamental Threats to Our Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Jed Morey

Politics & Government

The Great American Disconnect: Seven Fundamental Threats To Our Democracy

Morey, Jed

This is Book 1 in my updated Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide seriesThis book describes the basic facts about cancer, the two ways cancer can be visualized, and the four sensible strategies for responding to your cancer. But the first step in your cancer journey is to become aware of and to evaluate your own attitudes to health, healing, doctors and so on. By becoming aware you will be more in control and therefore more able to take a long view as to how you - you in particular - wish to respond to your cancer. The book then provides you with resources that will help you take the next step in your cancer journey. And of course, a natural strategy that cures cancer is very likely to be a strategy which, put in place ahead of time, might very well help you avoid that cancer in the first place.

Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide, Book 1 (What Now?)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

This is Book 2 in the Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide series.This book looks in detail at the pros and cons of the conventional treatments for cancer, with particular emphasis on surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. It also discusses the other mainstream options, from the use of lasers to smart drugs. No-one should opt for these treatments without a full understanding of the limitations and dangers associated with these treatments. However, since most people will assume that this is the only way to go, there is an extensive section on ways in which you can protect yourself. This book also takes a detailed look at issues relating to diagnostic tests-and suggests a number of tests that your doctors will not mention. It also looks at the particular issue of lymphoedema - a common consequence of conventional treatment.

Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide, Book (Diagnosis and Conventional Treatments)

Alternative Medicine

This is Book 3 in the Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide seriesThis book helps you understand the wider context of cancer - why cancer research has not come up with a cure and most likely never will; why the medical profession is unable to recognise the value of herbs and supplements - if a herb or supplement can cure cancer you will never hear about it from the medical profession; and why we should all be worried by the erosion of our health freedoms. You will also learn about the scientists who have bucked the system, and what has happened to them. This book aims to provide this wider context so that you can make sense of the real world in which medical decisions are made.

Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide, Book 3 (Research and Politics)

This is Book 4 in the Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide series. Detoxification and diet are the twin platforms for any long-term strategy for recovering from cancer. But what detox? What diets? And why? What's the rationale? What foods should we avoid? What foods are healing? What about the other food-based anti-cancer regimes? This book looks at the many forms of detoxification and the diets that you might wish to consider. Unless you believe cancer came from nowhere, and that removal or obliteration of a tumour has solved the problem, then you will want to put in place a regime that will lead to a state that can be described as free from cancer and a state where you will again feel alive and healthy. The first stop on the way to that place is by undergoing a regime of detox and diet. This book provides you with the options you should be thinking about.

Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide, Book 4 (Detox and Diet)

This is Book 6 in the Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide seriesEveryone knows that vitamin C is good for you - but what kind of vitamin C? In what quantities? And what about the other vitamins? The minerals? The other chemicals-both natural and man-made? There is a dizzying variety of supplements that attack cancer, stop it in its tracks, and boost the immune system. This book looks at the main supplements that are recommended as having anti-cancer and wellness benefits, as well as those that are contra-indicated or about which there is some controversy. It also looks at other 'supplements' or chemical compounds that have been developed with a view to helping people with cancer to recover. You will find everything you need to know here.

Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide, Book 6 (Vitamins and Other Supplements)

Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide, Book 8 (Cancer Survivors' Stories)

This is the updated and substantially enlarged 2012 edition and consists of eight books that will lead you to a more complete understanding of the world of cancer and the wide range of conventional, complementary and alternative options available to people diagnosed with cancer. Author, Jonathan Chamberlain wrote these books to inform himself. He started his research after his wife was diagnosed with cancer and subsequently died. Throughout his wife's illness he read book after book looking for "a sane, personal, intelligent and critical voice that could lead me through the contending beliefs, that could put both sides of the case and point up the limitations of any arguments there might be. But I never found this voice. So I have taken upon myself to provide this voice for others. This is the book I wish I'd had when my wife was diagnosed with cancer."

Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide Series

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