Zbooks Successful Authors Podcast

"Traditional wisdom is wrong." Bestselling suspense author JD Barker pulls back the curtain on the advanced business tactics that skyrocketed his career.

Tune in to find out why he creates his own book covers to license back to global publishers, how he uses NetGalley to fuel a massive email list exclusively for reviewers, and why he treats his name as a literal trademarked brand. Whether you are an indie author or aiming for traditional success, this short segment will completely change how you view the business of writing.

Great core principle of self-improvement in this podcast.

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This is one of my favorite books to gift to my men friends.

Watch the look on their face when they open their Christmas/Bday gift...PRICELESS!

In this episode we talk about one of the most prophetic doomsday/dystopian novels ever written: EARTH ABIDES.

George R. Stewart got so much right in his novel - it is truly amazing!

In this episode we talk about the #1 movie template "Save the Cat" by Blake Snyder.

It is based on the hero's journey but also has elements of plot and pacing.

It is so popular that it has been adapted to books, stories, videos and more!

This is an experiment.The voices you hear are robots.AI generated voices of course...you can't tell they are AI!The new Google generated AI voices are amazing.However, they reflect Google's biases too.Enjoy

Join us for an exciting and insightful discussion about Biochemist Dr. Sy Garte on his remarkable journey from militant atheism to devout Christianity.

For years, Dr. Garte believed God could not possibly exist, a view he held from a family background spanning three generations of atheism.

Yet, it was his deep dive into science, particularly biochemistry, that became a significant part of his path to faith.

Contrary to the common assumption that biology points away from a creator – a view surprisingly prevalent among many biologists –

Dr. Garte argues that the stunning design utterly saturated within life points to a Divine agent.

He challenges the idea that evolution alone can explain the origin of biological complexity.

While evolution can explain the diversity of life after the first cell (Luca) existed, it requires accurate self-replication, a property unique to life itself, leading to a circular problem when trying to explain origins.

Dr. Garte delves into the wonders of biological systems, like the genetic code, which he argues functions as true abstract symbolic information, similar to a language, something natural processes don't produce.

He highlights the unsolved mysteries surrounding the origins of essential systems like DNA replication, protein synthesis, and error correction – systems already present in the earliest life form we understand.

Exploring concepts like teleology (purpose) in biology, Dr. Garte presents a compelling argument that the origin of life requires something beyond mere natural chemical reactions.

This conversation offers a profound look at how the intricate workings of biology can be seen as powerful evidence for a Divine designer.

How do you embrace your shadow?

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In this, his most famous and influential work, Carl Jung made a dramatic break from the psychoanalytic tradition established by his mentor, Sigmund Freud.

Rather than focusing on psychopathology and its symptoms, the Swiss psychiatrist studied dreams, mythology, and literature to define the universal patterns of the psyche.
In Psychology of the Unconscious, Jung seeks a symbolic meaning and purpose behind a given set of symptoms, placing them within the larger context of the psyche. The 1912 text examines the fantasies of a patient whose poetic and vivid mental images helped Jung redefine libido as psychic energy, arising from the unconscious and manifesting itself consciously in symbolic form. Jung's commentary on his patient's fantasies offers a complex study of symbolic psychiatry and foreshadows his development of the theory of collective unconscious and its constituents, the archetypes.
The author's role in the development of analytical psychology, a therapeutic process that promotes creativity and psychological development, makes this landmark in psychoanalytic methodology required reading for students and others interested in the practice and process of psychology.

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The Law was originally published in French in 1850 by Frederic Bastiat.

It was written two years after the third French Revolution of 1848 and a few months before his death of tuberculosis at age 49. It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous. This translation to American English is from 1874.

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Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man's essential nature is competitive and selfish, Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign—or "Leviathan"—to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the anarchic freedom he believed human beings would otherwise experience. This worldview shocked many of Hobbes's contemporaries, and his work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first published. But in his rejection of Aristotle's view of man as a naturally social being, and in his painstaking analysis of the ways in which society can and should function, Hobbes opened up a whole new world of political science.
Based on the original 1651 text, this edition incorporates Hobbes's own corrections, while also retaining the original spelling and punctuation, to read with vividness and clarity. C. B. Macpherson's introduction elucidates one of the most fascinating works of modern philosophy for the general reader.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.