A strange collection of short stories covering the developmental years of the author. These are the previously unpublished stories that show his internal struggles with writing, living with bipolar and trying to understand the world through the lens of a writer.

To An Untrained Mind is a collection of short stories, poems and articles by Robert N Stephenson. These are works written over a 20 year period and have never before been seen, or published. These are imperfect appearances, there are faults with them all, from spellings to typos, from accidents in science and the limitations of knowledge. This book was not created to wow the reader with its prowess but more created to warehouse decades of material. If you have a copy, then you do indeed have a rare bird. Like the old Saab's Robert loves to own and drive, this book is also limited. Severe mental illness has distorted some visions and limited some expressions but never let you be controlled by such conditions, rather take control of them and thrive. The cover for this volume of imperfections is by the incomparable Conny Valentina and inside the image is another story. Rejoice in discovery, and forgive in measure.

This collection of short stories captures a time when the author was at his worst with clinical depression (bipolar) and the medication levels were not quite right. All of these stories display more a state of mind rather than any visionary insights into the conditions and how the author dealt with problems arising from the illness. The interesting thing would be what was being imagined at a time when the mind wasn't working in a positive or even productive fashion. It isn't impossible to write fictions when your mind is in crash mode, but it is difficult. This collection features strange stories, mad stories, visions that are macabre and insights that are touching. 500 000 words were written in the short story format and while some are available in other collections, all these are unique to this collection. The Mess in My Head is a journey and one that unexpectedly delivers on its promise. To be strange.

A collection of published works by Robert N Stephenson including the title story and the Aurealis award-winning The Rains of La Strange - THe Hardcover Edition has two extra stories at the end - a bonus for spending extra.

Interest in researching experience continues to grow in sociology, cultural studies, feminist theory and psychology. However there is a crisis over the representation of experience--evident in epistemological debates, in everyday life and in global politics. Could researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist self-regulation? "Analysing Everyday Experience" illustrates the emergence of plural historical actors who disrupt unitary subjectivities, resist univocal integration and refigure the political by remaking everyday experience.

A collection of short stories from all over the world from some of the best international writers available today. Authors in the edition are: Michaele Jordan, Mike Jansen, Richard Zwicker, Gustavo Bondoni, Purluca, Jonathan Shipley, Sergio 'ente per ente' Palumbo, Eric Del Carlo, Kain Massin, Peter Hagelslag, Floris M. Kleijne, Ville Meril inen, Dennis Mombauer, Laurence Suhner, Bo Balder, Felice Picano, Emad El-Din Aysha, Nicola Lombardi, Marcie Franks, Tais Teng & Jaap Boekestein, Maarten Luikhoven and, Agrippina Domanski.

Could researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist self-regulation? This book illustrates the emergence of plural historical actors who disrupt unitary subjectivities, resist univocal integration and refigure the political by remaking everyday experience.

The collected works of Robert N Stephenson, learn more about him at robertnstephenson (.)com and enjoy the renditions of futures in this volume of 15 stories. Award winners and new, none will disappoint.

Forget Perfect, Just Be Better
"101 Simple Ways to Grow in Relationships, at Work, in Life, and Through God"
Do you dread going to work every day?
Is your relationship in a slump?
Do you feel like God's not listening anymore?
Is everyone around you bringing you down?
Be a Better Person All Around
*Bring Life Back to Work, One Practical Step at a Time
*Rekindle Your Love With Steps You Can Do Today
*Reopen Your Heart to God and Build Your Faith
*Build Your Confidence, Esteem, and Put on Your Thick Skin
Stop Trying to be Perfect; Just be Better
How does this book connect to your bigger picture? The examples inside are all simple and practical ways to clear out the junk in your life and make room for the good stuff. Think of this as an idea book for ways to improve your life, one manageable step at a time.
These aren't just any 101 ways to be a better person. You shouldn't try to slam through and do them all in one week. These are bite-sized chunks of challenging, useful, and practical exercises to get your mind right and your world in order. These are one-percent change ideas you can handle.
Be a Better You: Day by Day, Step by Step
These are the areas of your life covered in this book:
*Be a Better Person At Work
*Be a Better Person In Relationships
*Be a Better Person Through God
*Be a Better Person By Being Healthy
*Be a Better Person By Learning
*Be a Better Person Through Success
*Be a Better Person Through Creativity
*Be a Better Person By Exploring
*Be a Better Person Through Thinking
*Be a Better Person By Having Fun
*Be a Better Person By Communicating
*Be a Better Person By Cleaning Chaos
*Be a Better Person In Society
Suspend your disbeliefs, your critiques, and your doubts for a while and have a dang good time making your life better, one-percent at a time. Be better in steps, day by day. Be better all around starting today. Be a better you now.
Forget Perfect, Just Be Better.

Finding it hard to actually get useful things done?
Do you lack the motivation to start working on a new goal?
Have a project you've wanted to complete but aren't sure how to get going again?
Push The Dang Button already
This book is about helping stuck people finally get things done in life. This book is about empowering people to overcome paralysis by analysis and adopt strategies to be more productive. It's all about recognizing now is the time to press the dang button and get going.
Are You Ready to Push the Buttons that Matter Most?
Everyone needs help overcoming the fear of starting. Whether it's at the beginning, the middle, or wherever they're at. Knowing that they can start at many mutually awesome places, instead of just one perfect place, is a wonderful breakthrough thought that a lot of people need help with.
Understanding genesis is all about seeing how what's inside of you progresses through to an outcome that helps everyone else out. We all have a lot of mental programming that was useful for us at the time that we used and learned it, but might not be as useful anymore. We need to take an active approach to reprogramming ourselves and to guide the new useful thoughts that come out into feelings that push us forward to achieve the things that matter most.
When we focus on consciously creating, instead of just sitting back and watching things happen, we begin to get things done. We know we don't have to be the most original or creative people in the world to create something that changes lives, whether our own or someone else's. We can recombine what exists, leverage our resources, and completely change the way things are done just by simply retelling the story from our own point of view.
== Table of Contents ]==
The Art of Pushing Buttons
Part 1: The Fear Of Starting
Ch. 1: Starting Points
Ch. 2: You're Allowed To Learn As You Go
Ch. 3: Chunking For The Win
Part 2: The Process Of Genesis
Ch. 4: Programming Leads To Thoughts
Ch. 5: Thoughts Create Feelings
Ch. 6: Feelings Drive Actions
Ch. 7: Actions Bring Results
Part 3: Conscious Creation
Ch. 8: Rearrange The Existing
Ch. 9: Leverage What You've Got
Ch. 10: People, Ideas, And The Flow Of Things
Ch. 11: Providing Value To The World
Part 4: The Stages Of Want
Ch. 12: Getting It Down
Ch. 13: Ultimate Love
Ch. 14: Wanting It More
Ch. 15: Heat Seeking Mission
Are You Ready To Push The Button Yet?
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You're here to do something. You're here to get wonderfully valuable things done. You're here to continually move forward and to press the buttons of action instead of just looking them. You weren't put here to take up air, water, and food for nothing. You aren't here just for your own pure enjoyment.
Yes, you should have fun and you should enjoy the path, but you should also focus on getting stuff done. You really do owe it to yourself and the rest of the world to see how everything that's happened to you can be combined and focused towards something that helps other people through their own challenges in life.
When we really get to the point of wanting to see achievement and change in the world, we realize that we've got down the basics. We begin to love the process and commitment involved. We want it more than anything else in the world. We champion success through our heat-seeking mission full of passion to get things done above everything else. We go through these stages of transforming our current existence into one of a permanent state of 'DO '