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No Free Lunch: Economics for a Fallen World (Third Edition, Revised)
Jeffrey E. Haymond
This open access introductory economics text is available for anyone interested in free market economics from an explicitly Christian worldview. This book is intended to be an engaging read, while not sacrificing technical accuracy or submission to biblical authority. Each chapter contains an introductory scriptural commentary and clearly defined objectives, as well as a “great economist” section at the end and concluding chapter questions. This text supports free market institutions because only free markets provide the outlet for the creativity of man made in God’s image while likewise providing the institutional constraints that minimize the harm that fallen man can do to others. We strongly encourage you to think about this concept as you go through this text.
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Values-Driven People: A Christian Approach to Management
Sharon Johnson
A biblically-based approach to management. Dr. Johnson challenges readers to evaluate their own workplace-related decisions and behavior in light of biblical principles.
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Blockchain Life: Making Sense of the Metaverse, NFTs, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Web3
Kary Oberbrunner
The World Is About to Change.
Will You Be Ready or Get Left Behind?
The biggest revolution in history is unfolding right before our eyes. The new internet is upon us, blending two worlds—digital and physical. Today’s dreams are tomorrow’s reality. Science fiction is now science fact—made possible through blockchain technology.
Welcome to Web3, where everything changes. Global changes like economies, currencies, governments, and education. And personal changes like identity, sex, communication, and health.
This book is a simple map to help you navigate the noise and discern between hype and hope. With unbiased expertise, the authors unpack the pros and cons of the metaverse, NFTs, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrencies, and much more.
Discover how to:
- Save time by identifying practical use cases for cutting-edge technology.
- Create unending wealth by turning your ideas into protected digital assets.
- Stay relevant by developing a customized metaverse strategy.
- Decide what technology to accept or reject by integrating your values.
Learn the facts. Leverage the knowledge.
Create your bigger and better future, starting today.
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Show Up Filled Up: How to Get What You Want Out of People and Life
Kary Oberbrunner
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”
Zig Ziglar said it. People love it. But until now, no one knew the eight steps required to actually do it.
What if you knew the hidden reason why people think what they think and do what they do? For those with noble motives, this secret can be leveraged to create wisdom and wealth, benefiting humanity for generations to come.
But, when used by people with selfish motives, this secret can be leveraged to manipulate others with the purpose of securing money, sex, and power. For reasons of potential abuses, some dismiss the secret altogether, claiming it’s simply too dangerous.
Just like the gift of fire, with this secret, we can light the world or burn down a forest. Therefore, it’s in everyone’s best interest to use it intelligently and for creating good. That outcome is completely up to you.
In Show Up Filled Up, Kary Oberbrunner shares his secret to success, a proven process that helped him partner with Hollywood celebrities from Shawshank Redemption, share the stage with Olympic and NCAA champions, turn a young adult novel into a seven-figure empire, collaborate with global leaders in multiple industries, and help solve some of the world’s biggest humanitarian challenges.
Discover how to:
- Generate—what many call—“luck” and “good fortune” on a daily basis.
- Establish instant credibility and influence with anyone, anywhere.
- Get everything you want out of people and life without even asking.
Learn the secret, then leverage it to create the life of your dreams.
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The E-Mind: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Gain an Exponential Advantage
Kary Oberbrunner
“Sorry, you’re on your own.”
Six days before my first international cycling trip, my five friends informed me they were all canceling. I now had a choice. Would I drop too or fly to the heart of the Tour de France and bike some of the hardest mountains in the world all by myself?
After a few hours of soul-searching and encouragement from my wife, I decided to go anyway—without a plan, a friend, or even a place to stay. I had no idea the adventures that awaited, only that I had to tap into The E-Mind™ and think like an entrepreneur in order to survive. The same Ten Traits that helped me thrive as an entrepreneur became the secret weapon to help me summit over a dozen mountain tops.
In today’s marketplace, everyone is an entrepreneur.
Unfortunately, most people don’t know how to think like one.Some believe entrepreneurs make up 4% of the population. They think this minority is brave and bold—focused on start-ups, investors, and risk. This may be the classic definition, but the truth is every single person is a brand and runs a company of one. It’s your responsibility to create value, and if you fail to deliver, chances are you’ll find yourself without a job.
Some reject identifying as an entrepreneur, claiming employee status instead. But even if you work for an employer, you choose to align yourself with that sub-brand. Do something out of alignment, and you’ll quickly find out you’re no longer a brand match.
Time to accept the facts. On some level, you’re an entrepreneur. And everyone in every industry would do better by thinking like one. In The E-Mind™, you’ll learn how to:
- Exchange fear and anxiety for peace and confidence by changing the rules of the game
- Tap into the Ten Traits that help entrepreneurs create more success in work and life
- Experience freedom—to go as you please, finances—to earn as you like, and fulfillment—to live as you like
Stop leaving things to chance and circumstance. Take back control of your future. Think like an entrepreneur and gain an exponential advantage starting today! -
Unhackable: The Elixir for Creating Flawless Ideas, Leveraging Superhuman Focus, and Achieving Optimal Human Performance
Kary Oberbrunner
Human knowledge once doubled every thousand years.
Today, it's every twelve hours. No wonder we can't keep up!
Welcome to the Attention Economy-where you are the product. In this digital landscape, they keep score with eyeballs and eardrums. Your attention-even for a few seconds-translates into cold, hard cash they're willing to manipulate and even hack you for.
The truth is, you're getting hacked every day, and you don't even realize it. A hack is when someone or something gains unauthorized access to a computer or a system. Want to know something scary? People can be hacked. It happens millions of times a day. Your focus is the prize-and they'll hack you to get it.
Does this sound familiar? You cleared your schedule, woke up early, and informed your family and friends you're unreachable. An entire day dedicated to finally working on your dream.
Buzz. Ring. Beep. Five minutes in, another disruption. Notifications flash across your screen. Focus. Where were you? Your phone vibrates. Now you crave a distraction and the dopamine fix. Scroll. Scroll. Who are you kidding? Productivity plummets. Morale declines. Your dream gets sidelined and sabotaged-yet again. Unless you're Unhackable.
Better than money, power, or connections-Unhackable is the new secret weapon of super achievers-the ones who live their dreams.
Kary Oberbrunner made it his mission to discover if humans could become Unhackable. After a six-year exploration of neurobiology, art, science, technology, education, athletics, the military, and business, he emerged with an answer-the unmistakable elixir behind all idea achievement and productivity.
This book reveals that answer in 30 daily missions. Discover how to
- create a life you love defined by freedom, finances, and fulfillment
- tap into your hidden ability for superhuman focus to get more done in far less time
- organize your life around "flow"-where you feel your best and perform your best
- wake up every day thrilled to live your dream
Ditch the hype. Tap into hope. Science fiction has blurred into science fact. Time to become Unhackable.
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Your Book is Not a Business Card: How to Turn your Book into 18 Streams of Income
Kary Oberbrunner
What if you turned your book into 18 streams of income?
Most authors have been taught that a book is just a business card. Sadly, this is why most authors stay poor. Notice the difference:
Business Cards Cost Money Books Create Value
Business Cards Are an Expense Books Are an Asset
Business Cards Get Thrown Away Books Last Forever
Business Cards Decrease Space in Your Pocket Books Increase Influence, Impact, and Income
Business Cards Change Landfills Books Change Lives
How you view your book and position it in the marketplace shapes your results and your riches-or lack thereof.
For eight years, Kary Oberbrunner struggled to earn profit as an author. (Let's just say he kept his day job.) Finally in 2012, he discovered the model that enabled him to go pro as a writer.
In Your Book Is NOT a Business Card, Kary reveals his proven process for helping authors create a suite of products-18 streams of income in all-to service their readers' needs while growing their profits. To date, more than 250,000 authors from all over the world have found success using this powerful model. His clients have effectively implemented it across multiple continents, languages, and genres-even with fiction and children's books!
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Kary Oberbrunner will teach you how to make the most of your book:
- Leverage the exact income streams that fit your dreams and goals.
- Create a clear buyer's journey that delivers real, life-changing results.
- Invite your readers to go deeper without sounding spammy or salesy.
- Build an engaged community thrilled to purchase your next book-based product and service.
Create your 6- or 7-figure book-based business, starting today!
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You Are an IP Company: The 12-Step Plan to Increase Your Intellectual Property Influence, Impact, and Income
Kary Oberbrunner and Katherine Rubino
Taylor Swift isn’t a singer, songwriter, or entertainer. She’s an IP Company—filing over 300 trademarks (and counting), including The Tortured Poets Department, Swiftites, Tayplay, and even her cat’s names—Meredith and Olivia Swift. Taylor Swift doesn’t protect her IP because she’s a big star. She’s a big star because she protects her IP.
Play-Doh also takes its IP seriously, protecting the scent of its modeling compound with the proprietary description, “Sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough." Even The Coca-Cola Company knows its value is found in its trade secret, not the carbonated beverage it bottles.
You’re not that different. But sadly, most entrepreneurs don’t think they have any intellectual property. Truth is, they just don’t know how to find it. The few who do, don't know how to protect it. Over 90% of your company’s value is linked to your IP. Unless you value your IP, your clients, competitors, and collaborators won’t truly value you.
Kary Oberbrunner, entrepreneur and inventor of Instant IP™, and Katherine Rubino, a Partner at Caldwell, the fastest-growing IP law firm in America for more than four years in a row, team up to offer a proven guide for identifying your ideas and protecting them the fastest, easiest, and most effective way possible.
Get ready to discover:- Why you should not promote your IP until you first protect your IP
- Which IP protection strategy makes sense for your unique circumstances
- How Disney, LEGO®, CrossFit, Dr Pepper, Magnolia, and Apple experienced exponential growth by leveraging their IP
- The 12-step plan to increase your intellectual property influence and impact
- Forty-seven practical ways of monetizing your IP so you realize true income
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Poetry is the Portal
Kary Oberbrunner, Mark Thomas, and Shelly Thomas
Poetry served as my secret confidant.
In early innocent days, I assembled words like LEGO® blocks when my heart felt more than I could speak. On a rare occasion, I presented my poem to a crush, a grade-school girl unsure how to respond.
I felt the risk and sometimes the sting. So I returned to my mask, realizing most people weren’t ready for honesty.
But in the quiet shadows, I didn’t need to lie. Poetry became my portal.
POETRY. Art to admire? Or gibberish to ignore?
Poll social media and you’ll soon locate lovers and haters.
For writers, poetry is both the safest medium and the scariest, all wrapped into one. We hide our hearts in plain sight. At the same time we bear our naked souls to the most casual passerby.
For readers, poetry is both the most polarizing and unifying medium. In one line, we rally around the messenger sent from the stars. In another, we take up weapons for the semi-charged words they dared to craft.
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Making the Big Red Machine: Bob Howsam and the Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s
Daryl R. Smith
With a line-up that included future Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez and Pete Rose, Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" powered its way in the 1970s to six division titles, four pennants, and two World Series. Three other times in that decade they finished second in their division to the eventual pennant winner. While much has been written about the players and manager Sparky Anderson, no book until now has given adequate attention to the man behind the Machine, general manager Bob Howsam. From his hire in 1967 through the end of his first stint with the Reds in 1978, Howsam brought about a remarkable change in fortune for the Reds, who had claimed only one pennant in the 26 years before his arrival. This detailed history of baseball's last dynasty shows not only how the team performed but why, delving into the off-field strategy and moves behind the Reds' success.
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Business Ethics: A Christian Method for Making Moral Decisions
John Tarwater
Regardless of one’s function in the marketplace (consumer, producer, CEO, etc.), one is confronted by an ever-expanding world of moral questions. How does one make moral decisions in this changing environment? In his Business Ethics: A Christian Method for Making Moral Decisions, John Tarwater provides the reader with the fundamental tools necessary for making business decisions that honor God. In contrast to secular texts in business ethics that focus on changing ideas of corporate citizenship or stakeholder relationships, Tarwater emphasizes Scripture’s fixed understanding of one’s conduct, one’s heart, and one’s purpose when making moral decisions. In addition to exploring the interconnectedness of these three historic elements of morality, Tarwater links them to contemporary issues in the business world. By focusing on the method for making moral decisions and not just the consequences resulting from them, Tarwater illustrates how Scriptural principles assist readers with perennial concerns that undergird ethical dilemmas in every era.
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Marriage as Covenant: Considering God's Design at Creation and the Contemporary Moral Consequences
John Tarwater
Marriage as Covenant examines the nature and meaning of marriage as an order of creation. The book questions whether or not there is evidence in Genesis for believing God made marriage to be a covenant relationship; and if so, how does it affect the way one understands moral boundaries surrounding marriage? The book also questions what did God expect of Adam with respect to Eve, and what did he expect of Eve in relation to Adam?
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The Story of the Pentateuch: An Introduction to the Old Testament
John Tarwater
The vast amounts of information—people, places, legal codes—in the Old Testament often overwhelm new students of the Bible causing many to cease reading it regularly and to surrender understanding fully its message. In The Story of the Pentateuch, Tarwater not only explains in detail the diverse parts of the Pentateuch, but more importantly how these components work in concert to communicate a unified story. Through the pages of The Story of the Pentateuch, therefore, the student of the Bible learns to read and to recognize the main story and distinguish it from the supporting narratives and legal codes.
In addition to laying a foundation for reading and understanding the Pentateuch, Tarwater explains how properly understanding these initial books of the Bible provides the requisite background for comprehending the rest of the Old and New Testament, as well as for recognizing the character of God. Rather than a survey to Old Testament methodologies and archaeological discoveries, The Story of the Pentateuch represents a fresh introduction to the Old Testament.
