A Reader
This is an excellent book on the futility of jailing people for consensual crimes. This is a very easy and fun book to read. It is the definitive book on victimless crimes. I challenge anyone with an open mind to read this book and still think the same way about the “crimes” of drug use, prostitution and other such types of consensual crimes. Should be in everybodys library

Please read this.

Jerry G. Prochazka
“Sometimes we all need to see the big picture. This book is a marvelous journey weaving personal accountability and liberty in such a way that you can see clearly that they are two sides of the same coin.

If you start to restrict someone’s freedom, you also reduce their accountability. This book is wonderfully titled and a needed boost to those who are so tired of the attacks on personal freedom.

If you believe that their should be laws against gambling, sex and drugs to “protect” people. . . read this book! You just might learn something.”

• Paperback: 692 pages
• Publisher: Mary Books (June 30, 1996)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.6 x 1.6 inches

Now in its seventh edition, the Cato Handbook for Policymakers sets the standard in Washington for real cuts in federal spending, taxes, and power. It offers an issue-by-issue detailed blueprint for reducing the federal government to the limits intended by the Founding Fathers. Providing both in-depth analysis and concrete recommendations, Cato’s Handbook is an invaluable resource for policymakers and anyone else interested in securing liberty through limited government.

“A soup-to-nuts agenda to reduce spending, kill programs, terminate whole agencies and dramatically restrict the power of the federal government.” —Washington Post

Definitive Indeed!, May 4, 2007
D. W. Mackenzie

This new edition of the Road to Serfdom is worth buying even if you already own an earlier edition. The editor has included important material on how this book was developed and interpreted. The Road to Serfdom stands out as a true classic, as timeless as it is insightful. Read it completely and repeatedly.

What a wonderful book, July 7, 2007
John Q.

I always am skeptical about experts and their predictions so it was a delight to read Hayek’s thoughts in 1944 about the problems with the prevailing economic theories. Life becomes the “answer key” about who was right and who was wrong. I started reading the book because of its historical importance but ended up enjoying Hayek’s conversational and relaxed style. Thoughtful and balanced with the right mix of personal and societal examples. It seems that he would have been a wonderful teacher.

• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (2007)
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches

Where does money come from?

Where does it go?

Who makes it?

The money magicians’ secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You’ll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story — which it really is. But it’s all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It’s all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island is a “must read.” Your world view will definitely change. You’ll never trust a politician again — or a banker.

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Amer Media; 4th edition (June 2002)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.5 inches

THE  NIGHTMARE  THAT  IS  PUBLIC  EDUCATION (Includes FREE bookmark!)
(An Exposé of What Really Happens in Public Schools)
By  Renato  C.  Nicolai,  Ed.D.

Reality:
Public education is a nightmare!   Incompetence and mediocrity haunt public middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools.  Teachers waste valuable classroom instructional time every day, and their teaching methods are grossly ineffective.  Knowledge of subject matter is alarmingly inadequate.  Parents don’t really know what happens in public school classrooms.  They have been hoodwinked by educators to believe that their children are receiving a good education, but they are not, as substantiated by national and international assessments.

Content:
The Nightmare That Is Public Education proves this reality with real classroom examples, lived public school experiences, and the revelation of what public education is really like, based upon the author’s thirty-eight year career in public education.  Dr. Nicolai writes about every aspect of this scary reality by sharing his personal experiences about the following:
•    The inferior quality of public school teaching and teachers
•    The ineffective management of student discipline
•    The dreadful physical condition of many classrooms
•    The lack of knowing how to teach standards
•    The abominable waste of instructional time
•    The substitute teaching charade and disgrace
•    The culture of permissiveness, reticence, and mediocrity
•    The deception of “Teacher In-Service Days,” “Professionalism,”
“Teacher Evaluations,” and “Computer Assisted Instruction.”
Although the title of his book is rather negative and includes the bad news of how broken our public schools are, let me assure you that every chapter is filled with positive suggestions, ideas, strategies, lists, questions, charts, methods, and recommendations about how to improve the system.  Believe me, every teacher, teacher candidate, parent, and school administrator should read this book because it is brimming with essential advice and invaluable tips from an educator who knows what works and how children learn effectively.