Michael Taylor

Contrary to popular belief, the future is optimistic; can you even imagine what would happen if you welcomed life's positivity with open arms? Much more than being just a philosophy, optimism has a scientific background. Even more, it's a state of mind that has the power to change one's world - if not the whole world. The dictionary defines optimism as 'hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something'. Somewhere along the...

When Peter Howell was 71 years old he was given the choice of whether to live or die. How and why he was put in that position is not the most astounding part. The disconcerting aspect is that he had to think long and hard about his choice.Men climb mountains, sail solo around the world and trek through deserts but to really test a man's character put him in a hospital bed where he is unable to communicate or move and can only breathe because of a...

What must you do when the light is red? And what about green? A girl in the car and a boy on the street are about to find out.

It's spring. Bobby and Amy go to the park. In the park, they see many things. Amy sees a bear, but it is a dog. And Bobby sees a bee. Can you guess where it is?

The school bus is going to the zoo. On the way, it will pass many places. What places can you see? Which one is your favorite?

Without question, life can be difficult and challenging. But what if all the challenges in your life were really just stepping stones to living the life of your dreams? Join coach Michael Taylor as he shares how he was able to overcome being a high school dropout, divorce, depression, bankruptcy, and foreclosure and is now living his dream as an entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, and radio and TV show host. In this book, you will learn that...

The Marks Brothers may well have been the most remarkable theatrical family in Canadian history. A phenomenon on the vaudeville circuit, the seven brothers left the farm and took to the boards and the footlights throughout the latter part of the 19th century and into the 1920s. The brothers from Christie Lake, near Perth in Eastern Ontario, played to an estimated eight million Canadians, as well as to sizeable audiences in the United States. Their...

Will the ecological crises of our time be resolved using the same form of thought that has brought them about? Are technological prowess and political power the proper tools to address them? Is there not a deeper connection between our ecological crises and our human, social, political, economic, and ethical crises? This book argues that the popular approaches to ecological, bioethical, and other human crises are not working because they fail to examine...

By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region-Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire-to submit militarily and financially. But how, despite its relative poverty and its frequent numerical disadvantage in decisive battles, did Rome prevail? Michael J. Taylor explains this surprising outcome...

Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region's...