This is you: you are young and hungry. You are in your 20s or 30s. You are working hard, growing a decent career in your job or business. Making your own money. It's all good. Thing is, you are expected to already know what to do with this money. Granted you know how to spend it buying things - hell, everybody does - but you don't know how to budget, save or invest it. Should I? responds to these lingering questions about your personal finances. Questions such as, 'What should I know before joining a Sacco?' 'Should a rookie like me put money in shares?' 'Why am I so insecure when I don't have enough money?' 'How am I always broke before my next payday?' 'Should I borrow money from my woman?' Bett is a certified accountant, a small business owner and a former financial auditor. She is also a personal finance columnist with Daily Nation newspaper. Bett has drawn from her personal experiences and from engagements with her readers, to respond to your questions about how to make money and manage it smarter.

In the absence of surviving works by Pyrrho, scholars have tended to treat his thought as essentially the same as the long subsequent sceptical tradition. This text offers a different interpretation of his thought.

A funny, lyrically brilliant memoir of learning to grow psychedelic mushrooms and discovering the vast power of mycelium wisdom and medicine.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was hooked on a calculator made by HewlettPackard when I was in high school. I created a game and sent it to the HewlettPackard distributor in Japan. They were absolutely baffled. They must have been like, Whoa, what’s this high school whiz kid doing up in Sapporo. #2 I made some important connections at the Seibu computer store, which led me to meet the programmer who would be the strongest motivator for my future work. I spent all my savings and the money I was given when I entered college on a computer, and I took on a loan. #3 I was able to move up into a fulltime position as soon as I graduated university. I enjoyed what I was doing so much that it didn’t feel like work. The games that I developed involved big software ideas, and since they were praised for their technical abilities, they were able to get work consistently. #4 When I was president of HAL Laboratory, I had to figure out how to turn things around. I interviewed everyone at the company to find out their strengths and weaknesses, and I was blown away by how much I was learning.

Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility—from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was hooked on a calculator made by Hewlett-Packard when I was in high school. I created a game and sent it to the Hewlett-Packard distributor in Japan. They were absolutely baffled. They must have been like, Whoa, what’s this high school whiz kid doing up in Sapporo. #2 I made some important connections at the Seibu computer store, which led me to meet the programmer who would be the strongest motivator for my future work. I spent all my savings and the money I was given when I entered college on a computer, and I took on a loan. #3 I was able to move up into a full-time position as soon as I graduated university. I enjoyed what I was doing so much that it didn’t feel like work. The games that I developed involved big software ideas, and since they were praised for their technical abilities, they were able to get work consistently. #4 When I was president of HAL Laboratory, I had to figure out how to turn things around. I interviewed everyone at the company to find out their strengths and weaknesses, and I was blown away by how much I was learning.

How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched introduction to skepticism by presenting a fresh, modern translation of key passages from the writings of Sextus Empiricus, the only Greek skeptic whose works have survived. While content in daily life to go along with things as they appear to be, Sextus advocated—and provided a set of techniques to achieve—a radical suspension of judgment about the way things really are, believing that such nonjudging can be useful for challenging the unfounded dogmatism of others and may help one achieve a state of calm and tranquility. In an introduction, Richard Bett makes the case that the most important lesson we can draw from Sextus’s brand of skepticism today may be an ability to see what can be said on the other side of any issue, leading to a greater open-mindedness. Complete with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Keep an Open Mind offers a compelling antidote to the closed-minded dogmatism of today’s polarized world.

In Girl Walking Backwards, Skye wants what all teenagers want--to survive high school. She lives in Southern California, though, which is making that difficult. Her mother has fallen victim to the pseudo-New Age culture and insists on dragging her to consciousness-raising workshops and hypnotists. As if this weren't difficult enough, Skye falls in love with Jessica, a troubled gothic punk girl who cuts herself regularly with sharp objects. When she finds her boyfriend having sex with Jessica in a bathroom stall at a rave, her romantic illusions collapse and she has to face the fact that she's been running away from her mother's insanity. Right when things look their worst though, Skye is helped by Mol, a pagan who becomes her true friend, and Lorri, a graceful volleyball player with whom she finds real love. From them she learns how to feel authentic emotions in a culture of poseurs and New Age charlatans. In this anti-coming-of-age novel by Bett Williams, where growing up is irrelevant, this is the best gift of all.