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What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production, technology, and education? In The Gold Standard, internationally bestselling author Saifedean Ammous answers these questions with a unique alternative history that is one-third history, one-third novel, and one-third economic analysis.

The battle of Hammon's Bog is over. The town is free, the undead destroyed, the Witches slain, and the surviving villagers are picking up the remains of their lives. Despite his scars and constant nightmares, Brin is doing his best to move on from the battle against the undead. He's looking to the future, but his past might not be done with him yet. Soon Brin will learn that not every Witch who tormented him is gone for good, and he won't be able to depend on Hogg and Lumina to protect him in places they cannot reach.

Mark’s new life begins in the worst possible place—a burned-out village haunted by undead. Each morning these ravenous creatures disappear, only to return at night, driven by a relentless hunger. He'll need to stay low and think quick, because trapped and alone in the body of a child, he can’t level up in this new world. At least not yet. Soon Mark will learn that even among the living, safety isn’t guaranteed. When the small town that he ends up in turns out to be at the center of a conspiracy that threatens the world, he'll need to uncover the truth before it's too late.

Brin is scarred, but no longer alone. After giving up his evil Rare Class in exchange for the simple and common Glasser, he’s finally been accepted by the people of Hammon’s Bog. But acceptance doesn't guarantee safety. Mirrors and glass spearheads offer little protection against threats both outside and within. An army of undead is lurking in the surrounding forest, cutting them off from the rest of the world. There’s no rescue in sight, and worse, no one knows why the army is there or when it will attack.

Manden E lever en ensom og anonym tilværelse dedikeret til virksomheden Dansk Standard, som standardiserer størrelsen på alt fra indkøbskurve til fatninger på elpærer. Arbejdet holder kaos under kontrol, som hans søster, Mette, siger. Hun er læge, plages af et formørket sind og prøver jævnligt at tage livet af sig. Da hun bliver indlagt med alvorligt blodtab efter at have foretaget en abort på sig selv, begynder E’s ordnede tilværelse at blive gennembrudt af en anden skræmmende og voldelig virkelighed, og snart ved han ikke længere, hvem han selv er.

Hilarious and surprising, this unapologetically Jewish story delivers a present-day take on a highly creative grandmother trying to find her PhD granddaughter a husband who is a doctor-with a yarmulke, of course.

Dr. Niels Berners - a Swiss plastic surgeon living in New York - is struggling to recover from his dysfunctional son's abandonment of him. He joins a group of four other parents, all with absent children either in jail or in jeopardy, to discuss their feelings and seek a sense of community, comfort, and closure.

Britain, 55 BC: Julius Caesar’s invasion of the wild and mineral-rich land is becalmed, a stalemate exists between the forces of Rome and Britain. But the standard bearer of the Tenth Legion, Lucius Oppius, is about to display a depth of courage that will change the course of the invasion - and history. Encamped upon the south coast Caesar, admiring the courage and skill of his standard bearer, orders Oppius to accompany a native British archer and go behind enemy lines.

This is our expression of our love for Dungeons and Dragons. We play 5th edition D&D (to the best of our limited abilities). We have been playing together fortnightly a year and half. Our GM Elliot is a talented artist and imagineer who has made the official Sword Coast map his own. The party is called the Moth's Wings and while they are not good adventuring, they do it a lot.

In a world of flourishing technology, absent gods, and some temporal instability, our heroes will rise (or fail forward) to the occasion!Standard Aerei is a Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition podcast that aims to bring our tabletop to yours. We supplement the show’s jokes and adventures with quality foley work to emphasize every hit, spell, and disaster the players are involved in.

Poems written by the Typewriter Rodeo about all matters from a uniquely Texas perspective.

Stories from Texas are written for and recorded for the Texas Standard radio program. They’re written by W.F Strong and edited for broadcast by Texas Standard producers.

In this podiobook: Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world.Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.The comm -- instant wireless communication -- puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a ...

“[T]here are no neutral facts in all the universe, only God-created facts; and all facts are interpreted in terms of the interpreter's presuppositions. This was brought out clearly in 1996 by William O. Einwechter in English Bible Translations, By What Standard? Wrong presuppositions always lead to wrong conclusions.” -R.J. Rushdoony English Bible Translations: By What Standard? Written by William O. Einwechter Free PDF with footnotes and additional reading list: https://www.chapellibrary.org/api/books/download?code=ebtb&format=pdf