Class System

When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn't think twice about accepting the grueling but well-paid job. What she hadn't considered was that she was entering a male-dominated society that fiercely resisted the inclusion of women, a prejudice born out in the brutal harassment of every female miner.

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change. There is a mounting sense that our political-economic...

He died a baker. He woke up a joke. Now, he's about to show a world of heroes the true power of good bread. Thirty-four-year-old Matthias Bauer lived for his Stuttgart bakery, right up until the moment a fatal heart attack dropped him on his own kitchen floor. When he wakes up in a fantasy realm governed by a magical System, surrounded by teenagers receiving legendary combat classes like Sword Saint and Flame Mage, Matthias is assigned the lowest tier possible: [Innkeeper]. His "reward" is a deed to a dilapidated, abandoned wayside inn on the edge of a monster-infested frontier. But ...

The System’s new rating was supposed to be the most accurate in history. It rated me as a corpse collector. Four years of being a washout Mage, and the re-rating drops me to Tier-0 Reclaimer—the administrative bottom. Grave-picking. Ruins-cleanup. Docked rations, barred from any crew that matters. It missed one thing. My class sees what the dead leave behind—orphaned experience, discarded skills, power tangled in the rubble where no rated adventurer can even look. Free, for anyone patient enough to pick it up. So I pick it up. I scavenge the monster-haunted zones the strong won’t ...

Caleb Hanson assumed the most exciting part of his field trip scouting in Northern Minnesota would be a rare bird sighting. Instead, he was abducted by hive-minded hexapods and forced to be their children's teacher. Not the worst way to ride out the end of the world. Two years later, the apocalypse has finally come for Caleb. His savior-captors are murdered, leaving him as the last line of defense for the alien kids he's grown to know and love. Now, he'll have to bend his values or watch his students die.

I rode into dense fog on call in an ambulance. I woke up enrolled in a magic academy… and I’m ranked near the bottom. On Earth, I was a paramedic. At the academy, I’m a rank F field healer with a locked specialization, no spellbook, and a system that thinks “abnormally high bond compatibility” is a medical warning. When a combat duelist named Mara starts crashing from wounds magic says are already fixed, I do what I know: stabilize, assess, hold pressure. Then her buried memories start coming back. Now my “wrong” healing methods are improving her class, throwing forbidden ...

First, they sent monsters. Now, they've sent the paperwork. Matthias Bauer has successfully defended Zum Goldenen Krug from goblins, health inspectors, and a feral dungeon breach. But in the frontier town of Oakhaven, the most dangerous predators don't have claws—they have ledgers. When Matthias installs a simple noticeboard to help adventurers find fair work, he accidentally sparks an economic revolution. The local Adventurer's Guild and Merchant Guild, furious at losing their monopoly on labor and supplies, declare war on the inn. They deploy their deadliest weapons: embargoes, forged ...

To save his people, Mason Reed must hack the very laws of magic. The final member of his harem isn't just a demon... she’s a glitch. The Sanctuary of the First Circle stands as the last bastion of freedom, but King Alaric’s tyranny is spreading like a virus. The Mad King is draining the realm’s life force to fuel his immortality, and now he has unleashed his ultimate weapon: The Void Circle—twisted, corrupted reflections of Mason’s own bondmates designed to hunt them down. To counter an enemy with infinite mana, Mason needs the final piece of his power. He must venture into the ...

Turn your eBay side hustle into a calm, profitable business. Since 2012, I’ve sold thousands on eBay across multiple stores, including a few that run mostly on autopilot. This book gives you the exact systems, checklists, and scripts that kept sales growing while my days stayed sane. If you’re starting from zero or leveling up from casual seller to pro, this is your playbook for 2025 and 2026. What you’ll learn (and actually use) Set up the right way: seller account, policies, payouts, and store settings that prevent headaches later. Fees made simple: the real math behind eBay, ...

The Business Idea Factory is an effective and easy-to-use system for creating successful business ideas. It is based on 10 years of research into idea-generation techniques used by the world's best scientists, artists, CEOs, entrepreneurs and innovators. The book is entertaining to read, has plenty of stories and offers bits of wisdom necessary to increase the quantity and quality of ideas that you create multiple times. Once you begin applying strategies described in this book, you will create successful business ideas regularly and make your life more adventurous. You will realize that ...

Betrayed and alone, Tulland must survive the most dangerous dungeon in the universe—as a farmer—in the first installment of this isekai adventure series. Tulland has always dreamed of adventure. To travel beyond the confines of his tiny island. To be someone who goes everywhere and does...

Agentic AI is transforming software from passive, request-response models into autonomous systems that plan, reason, and act across extended horizons. These systems operate with delegated intent, dynamically selecting tools, composing workflows, and adapting in real time. In doing so, they introduce a new attack surface where identities are ephemeral, behavior is probabilistic, and execution is continuous. Traditional control planes built for static services and human-initiated actions are no longer sufficient. This book delivers a technical blueprint for securing agentic systems end to end...

The Magic of Public Speaking is a comprehensive step-by-step system for creating highly effective speeches. It is based on research from the top 1000 speakers in the modern world. The techniques you will learn have been tested on hundreds of professional speakers and work! You will receive the exact steps needed to create a speech that will keep your audience on the edge of their seats. The book is easy to follow, entertaining to read and uses many examples from real speeches. This system will make sure that every time you go on stage your speech is an outstanding one.

The summoning wasn't meant for him. When a dimensional rift tears through his office, Timothy Johnson finds himself in Tamaria — not as a chosen hero, not as a destined savior, but as an accident. The ritual that pulled him through killed four people to open the door. He was the wrong man on the wrong side of it. Tamaria doesn't care. The Scepter of Aethon has bonded to him regardless, granting him access to a dual cultivation path — Craftsman and Mage simultaneously — that the Mage-Lords consider impossible and the Church considers heresy. Both want him dead or controlled. Neither is...

3D printing is dubbed the "democracy of manufacturing". Imagine, anyone can design and create anything for anyone, anywhere. This audiobook is the first guide on how to monetize your 3D printing skills. In addition to describing the technology in detail, it walks you through all the practical steps of turning your 3D printing skills into a business. The book will benefit both complete beginners and those more advanced in 3D printing technology. It also includes a list of the best software and hardware on the market today.

Build the harness. Govern the capability. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 change the engineering surface around prompting, memory, fallback, observability, cost, and security governance. This field guide turns those mechanics into production-ready loops, reusable controls, defensive Mythos scope gates, and a launch checklist a security leader can sign. Inside you will learn: - Fable-native prompt and loop patterns - Memory, refusal, fallback, and cache controls - Mythos-class defensive scope and validation gates - Production testing, telemetry, and CISO governance For AI engineers, security architects...

Do we build a society around individual rights and opportunity, or around fairness for all? Across the globe, every government strives for a society that is safe, prosperous, and fair. But how do we achieve it? For centuries, two powerful visions—Republicanism and Socialism—have offered fundamentally different answers to that question. Strengths & Weaknesses Explored This book cuts through the rhetoric to clearly define these two major social and economic philosophies (without referring to specific political parties). It explores the core tenets of each system, showing how they build ...

When the Ledger counts you at fourteen, it decides what you are. Doran got one word: Static. Permanent Level 1. In a world where power is measured in Levels and a stuck account means a wasted life, Static is the worst thing a person can be. So Doran does what the Ledger never anticipated. Every healer in the world hits a ceiling, the point where the spell reaches its limit and the excess mana evaporates as waste. Doran's Heal has no ceiling. The overflow crystallises into something permanent, something the Ledger can't quite account for, and every patient he treats makes him fractionally, ...

Perfect order. Perfect control. Perfect lies. In a world where merit decides your fate, what happens when the system is rigged? Seventeen-year-old Ruby Halden has spent her life preparing to win the Reckoning. Every citizen of the Commonwealth is born to a Tier, but no one is supposed to remain trapped there. Golds can fall. Greys can rise. The annual trials give everyone a chance to prove their worth before the Balance, the artificial intelligence that judges every contestant without bias, favoritism, or mercy. Ruby has never doubted the system. Why would she? She was born Gold. But this ...

Anatomy & Physiology Made Easy + Medical Terminology is a 2-in-1 study bundle that breaks everything down into simple, clear lessons you can actually remember—without slogging through dense textbooks. You’ll review every major body system, learn medical terms step by step, and test your understanding with quick checks so you know what’s sinking in before class, exams, or clinicals.