Stairway Press: 38 books
Reflections on Oceans and Puddles
One Hundred Reasons to be Enthusiastic, Grateful and Hopeful
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Where can we find a wellspring of inspiration to raise us out of our doldrums, rekindle our enthusiasm about everyday events, and encourage us to explore untested possibilities? Maybe we can find it in familiar places: within ideas and examples of people we know that illuminate higher values to aspire...
Environmentalism Gone Mad
How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who became actively involved in the environmental movement in the 1960s. This led to an almost 39 year career as a manager and senior analyst at the U.S....
Higher Miseducation
A Dissident’s Essays on the Assault against Liberal Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
Although it’s self-evident to observers of the contemporary academic scene, far too few of those parents whose kids are college-bound seem to be aware of the conflict raging within academia over its soul. The classical ideal of a liberal arts education has long been under attack. Specifically, the...
Christianity and the World
Essays Philosophical, Historical and Cultural
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Illiteracy regarding Christianity’s impact upon the world is hardly limited to non-Christians. It is endemic throughout our culture. This mass ignorance is made that much more painful by the fact that, for the better part of the last two millennia, the collective consciousness of what is today known...
by Robert Almeder
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In Global Warming: The Skeptic’s Brief, Dr. Robert Almeder refutes the arguments of those who believe we are in a state of unprecedented global warming caused by human activities and escalating catastrophically into the next century and beyond. Analyzing the most compelling and respected...
by Dale Cozort
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
A unique alternate history: Newly created portals lead to an alternate reality where prehumans survived on a Mediterranean island, enslaved by local farmers. Alternate history Rome rebuilt their culture around the slaves, preserving the empire but causing it to stagnate. As a result Europeans never discovered...
The Lukewarmer's Way
Climate Change for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Most of us are tired of the climate war. The sterile debate between alarmists trying to convince us that climate change will ruin the world and skeptics who ignore the serious science trying to understand our complex climate has reached a dead end.
It's time for the rest of us to look realistically...
Radical By Nature
The Green Assault on Liberty, Property, and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Environmentalism is a good idea that gets carried to a bad extreme on occasion by a few radicals. This is the standard critique of environmentalism—and it is false. Environmentalism is not about reducing pollution to manageable levels, as most Americans believe. It is about eradicating it completely,...
Principles of a Brilliant Life
A Lifestyle Guide for Urban Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Often, busy professionals are thought of as soulless and robotic, but this must change. Today's professionals will have unhappy, unfulfilled lives if they neglect the care and feeding of their inner human animal. Can the human psyche be hacked? Self-hacked? Yes, and not only can it happen, it must.
by Donald L Ensenbach
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Looking from the overlook to which a wolf had led her over ten summers past, Little Star and her mate Gray Eagle gazed at the valley, lake, and village of Besh ba Lakado, their home since then. After her mother, White Moon, and spirit father, Kokopelli, walked the path to the happy hunting grounds,...
by Allen Wyler
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
What if you found yourself transported into your son’s body? A FAST-PACED AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING NEW NOVEL Cardiologist Chris Holden finds himself transported into his son Joel’s body and into Joel’s life. Is this reincarnation, madness, a near-death experience or simply another chance to reconcile...
by Pat Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Amanda Ray thought she’d grow old with her pastor husband David, but death had other plans. During David’s long illness and his withdrawal from her, Amanda found solace in the virtual arms of Sam Priestly, a college professor she met at an online support group for cancer patient caregivers. Amanda...
by Mike Farris
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Hawaii! The very word evokes visions of Paradise – white, sandy beaches; swaying palm trees; silver waterfalls, hula girls; mai tais; and luaus. But all is not paradise in Paradise in the months leading up to World War II. Beneath the glitzy exterior lies a seamy underbelly of sex, drugs,...
Dating Your Character
A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Dating Your Character: A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV, is based on the principle that interesting characters actually are co-creators in the writing process. It’s organized into some of the standard stages in an evolving, romantic relationship, launched by a couple of chapters that...