�Alienation and Literature� is concerned with the problem of change in the society and how it is perceived by the West African writer. It aims to define and identify the various facets of alienation and demonstrate how they are manifested in the lives of people and in the imagination of creative writers. Critics of modern West African literature have concentrated their efforts on the cultural and political aspects of alienation. This is an attempt to analyze in addition, physical and economic alienation, how they have resulted in the growth or otherwise of the creative writer in particular and the society in general.

Daniel Kleinberger, Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law

Very interesting � style is �steam of consciousness� with forays into Scriptures setting the course for the stream.

Chris Wright, President Minnesota Timberwolves, Member of the Downtown Council, Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Tom I have read a number of chapters but not all of it, and really have no substantive changes or comments.... as a man of God you are a wonderful ambassador.

Reverend Lonnie L. Branch

�I �m Just Say�n� by the Reverend Thomas H. Vanleer, is inspired of God! His experiences in life has been tempered by the Spirit of God in guiding him in ministry as well as writing�May God continue to bless him!

George Blackwell, Director of Community Affairs (retired) Qwest Communications

The author of I�m just say�n has clearly captured the essence of what�s good, bad, and in some cases what�s evil in our society. By using biblical scriptures, Mr. Vanleer uses clear references to articulate the differences and in some instances the similarities of each chapter. I found the book to be very engaging, very informative, and very thought-provoking. I highly recommend this book for future reading.

Daniel Kleinberger, Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law

Very interesting � style is �steam of consciousness� with forays into Scriptures setting the course for the stream.

Chris Wright, President Minnesota Timberwolves, Member of the Downtown Council, Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Tom I have read a number of chapters but not all of it, and really have no substantive changes or comments.... as a man of God you are a wonderful ambassador.

Reverend Lonnie L. Branch

�I �m Just Say�n� by the Reverend Thomas H. Vanleer, is inspired of God! His experiences in life has been tempered by the Spirit of God in guiding him in ministry as well as writing�May God continue to bless him!

George Blackwell, Director of Community Affairs (retired) Qwest Communications

The author of I�m just say�n has clearly captured the essence of what�s good, bad, and in some cases what�s evil in our society. By using biblical scriptures, Mr. Vanleer uses clear references to articulate the differences and in some instances the similarities of each chapter. I found the book to be very engaging, very informative, and very thought-provoking. I highly recommend this book for future reading.

Daniel Kleinberger, Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law

Very interesting � style is �steam of consciousness� with forays into Scriptures setting the course for the stream.

Chris Wright, President Minnesota Timberwolves, Member of the Downtown Council, Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Tom I have read a number of chapters but not all of it, and really have no substantive changes or comments.... as a man of God you are a wonderful ambassador.

Reverend Lonnie L. Branch

�I �m Just Say�n� by the Reverend Thomas H. Vanleer, is inspired of God! His experiences in life has been tempered by the Spirit of God in guiding him in ministry as well as writing�May God continue to bless him!

George Blackwell, Director of Community Affairs (retired) Qwest Communications

The author of I�m just say�n has clearly captured the essence of what�s good, bad, and in some cases what�s evil in our society. By using biblical scriptures, Mr. Vanleer uses clear references to articulate the differences and in some instances the similarities of each chapter. I found the book to be very engaging, very informative, and very thought-provoking. I highly recommend this book for future reading.

This story is about one person�s life journey from childhood to the golden years of retirement. We work , play, love and to share it with other�s is stuff that make our existence meanful. Everyone has a story in them , I would strongly suggest to my reader , give it a shot , tell your story, it�s like chicken soup, It won�t hurt and may give you one of the greatest feeling about this wonderful thing call living.

The book�s premise spells out the dangers which our republic has encountered and how the 21st century presents new hurdles to surmount and reclaim our democracy. The author focuses on 10 conditions which have eroded representative government and offers proposals to cement public control over government. Among the problems there has been a slow, insidious alteration in methods for the selection of representatives which are encapsulated in the words �gerrymandered electoral districts� and �representatives for sale.� Results of this condition are legal breaks, tax loopholes and regulatory exemptions favoring a few. This problem is exacerbated by the public�s disenchantment with politics. Added to the problem are growing trends in our social mores which reveals more attention to �good times� than social obligations of citizenship and reflected in the low voting rates of eligible voters. The author points out how history repeats itself and how internal divisiveness destroys national unity. Stressed throughout the book is the vital nature for universal education and how the vast wealth of intellectual ability in our nation has been overlooked. The book also points out the difficulty for people to realize how vastly different the 21st century is when compared only to the lives of our great-grandfathers. The growth of multinational corporations and the rise of �State Capitalism� alters concepts of free competitive enterprise which faces daunting challenges for survival. The growth of our nation and the free movement of people have resulted in nearly one in three Americans living in four states but our representative system is still tied to 1789. Significant suggestions are also proffered to protect the independence of our judiciary. The author offers several proposals for consideration to redeem and enhance our republic; why our governmental units, federal, state, county and city must be aligned to achieve our purpose to improve and protect the human condition and liberty. A significant point is made of the importance of our experiment in democracy for the world.

The book�s premise spells out the dangers which our republic has encountered and how the 21st century presents new hurdles to surmount and reclaim our democracy. The author focuses on 10 conditions which have eroded representative government and offers proposals to cement public control over government. Among the problems there has been a slow, insidious alteration in methods for the selection of representatives which are encapsulated in the words �gerrymandered electoral districts� and �representatives for sale.� Results of this condition are legal breaks, tax loopholes and regulatory exemptions favoring a few. This problem is exacerbated by the public�s disenchantment with politics. Added to the problem are growing trends in our social mores which reveals more attention to �good times� than social obligations of citizenship and reflected in the low voting rates of eligible voters. The author points out how history repeats itself and how internal divisiveness destroys national unity. Stressed throughout the book is the vital nature for universal education and how the vast wealth of intellectual ability in our nation has been overlooked. The book also points out the difficulty for people to realize how vastly different the 21st century is when compared only to the lives of our great-grandfathers. The growth of multinational corporations and the rise of �State Capitalism� alters concepts of free competitive enterprise which faces daunting challenges for survival. The growth of our nation and the free movement of people have resulted in nearly one in three Americans living in four states but our representative system is still tied to 1789. Significant suggestions are also proffered to protect the independence of our judiciary. The author offers several proposals for consideration to redeem and enhance our republic; why our governmental units, federal, state, county and city must be aligned to achieve our purpose to improve and protect the human condition and liberty. A significant point is made of the importance of our experiment in democracy for the world.

This story is about one person�s life journey from childhood to the golden years of retirement. We work , play, love and to share it with other�s is stuff that make our existence meanful. Everyone has a story in them , I would strongly suggest to my reader , give it a shot , tell your story, it�s like chicken soup, It won�t hurt and may give you one of the greatest feeling about this wonderful thing call living.

The book�s premise spells out the dangers which our republic has encountered and how the 21st century presents new hurdles to surmount and reclaim our democracy. The author focuses on 10 conditions which have eroded representative government and offers proposals to cement public control over government. Among the problems there has been a slow, insidious alteration in methods for the selection of representatives which are encapsulated in the words �gerrymandered electoral districts� and �representatives for sale.� Results of this condition are legal breaks, tax loopholes and regulatory exemptions favoring a few. This problem is exacerbated by the public�s disenchantment with politics. Added to the problem are growing trends in our social mores which reveals more attention to �good times� than social obligations of citizenship and reflected in the low voting rates of eligible voters. The author points out how history repeats itself and how internal divisiveness destroys national unity. Stressed throughout the book is the vital nature for universal education and how the vast wealth of intellectual ability in our nation has been overlooked. The book also points out the difficulty for people to realize how vastly different the 21st century is when compared only to the lives of our great-grandfathers. The growth of multinational corporations and the rise of �State Capitalism� alters concepts of free competitive enterprise which faces daunting challenges for survival. The growth of our nation and the free movement of people have resulted in nearly one in three Americans living in four states but our representative system is still tied to 1789. Significant suggestions are also proffered to protect the independence of our judiciary. The author offers several proposals for consideration to redeem and enhance our republic; why our governmental units, federal, state, county and city must be aligned to achieve our purpose to improve and protect the human condition and liberty. A significant point is made of the importance of our experiment in democracy for the world.

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� . . . analyses, warnings, complaints . . . iconoclastic, critical,incisive, satirical . . . and poems like none you�ve ever seen, LOL funny, pithy, tragicomic, disturbing, grim . . . �

Kouken is a witty and provocative collection of stories, essays and poems that reveal a razor-sharp mind at work on the experiences of a well- and richly-lived life. Avoid this book if your beliefs are predigested media pap; otherwise dive right in for the sheer intellectual fun of real poetry and acerbic, often hilarious comments on quantum physics, junk food, religious and political nonsense, wine, art, and other pretensions, and that most fearful of beasts in the dark forest of the human mind, the �-ism�.

� John Rafferty, President, the Secular Humanist Society of New York; Editor, PIQUE.

What do you get when you mix a haggard old ghost who is severely ill with nostalgia with the end of the world? You get Dreamers and Thieves, by S. R. Schuch. That is I. I am he. Thomas is dead. He is an old, old soul who just cannot bear to take himself to Heaven, even though that is where all the people are. But, they�re not the same there. They are happy and healthy and eternal. Thomas misses Humans as they were on Earth: emotional, struggling, surviving. He misses them being alive. He saw himself through them, seeing as he was once one of them. Now, they are all gone, and dead, and scattered about the scorched Earth like rotten sprinkles on a big, rotting cake that floats through space. Thomas has lost almost all hope in ever finding life again. His hope is fragile and fleeting, as are his ghostly emotions, which go up and down, up and down. He roams and roams the broken Earth in hopes of finding life when he sees something he hasn�t seen in ages. He sees the Sun poking its blazing face through a pinhole in the blackened, neon, toxic pudding clouds. He hasn�t seen the glory of the Sun in years upon years, not since bombs dropped from all corners of the globe. He knows this is something. He hopes and he prays. He hopes and he prays. The sight tickles his dying hope, which is something that he desperately needs to keep roaming, roaming, roaming, and he instantly knows how he is going to spend his day: he is going to wait out the sight of the Sunrise or Sunset, which ever comes first, and as he waits, he is going to tell you a little story about what could have been, what should have been; the story is about his best friend. His best friend was Victor Connelly. He is dead now. Thomas is nostalgic, sick with memories and ghostly emotions. He and I are the same in that sense. We are ill with emotions that go up and down, up and down, and we both had to do something about it. This is that something.

The six essays in this collection were written over the years 2010-2012. Most of the essays are literary in nature. These touch on the works of Ernest Hemingway�his tragic conservatism�of Lionel Trilling, mentor to a generation of teachers of literature, and of Henry Miller. In the case of Miller, the essay is as much a critique of his social and spiritual values as literary. The essay on �The Age of the Grand Hotel� is a historical and social analysis of the part such hotels have played in the growth�and decline�of upper class society.

This group of short stories are the stories that have taken place during the 80+ years of Harlan Frank Pollmann�s life. He is also the author of the autobiography of �Uncle Chub".
He has gathered 15 intriguing short stories of his life, that paints you pictures that you may have never seen before. He lets you see into his thoughts, listen to his heart, feel his love, laugh to get her and feel the tears trickledown your face. These are the main elements that he would like to share with you. He would like to have you find yourself in some of these situations.
Harlan thinks you owe it to yourself to give this book of short stories a try, you'll be glad you did.