Forming a modern day counterpart to Chaucer's General Prologue, this book uses a train journey from Weymouth to Waterloo as the vehicle for a poetic tour-de-force that provides a moving and often hilarious account of a microcosm of society. Through the presentation of a wide range of social stereotypes, the outspoken and controversial narrator addresses the values that underpin our behaviour and interaction. Both scathingly satirical and brutally honest, this fast-paced account offers a no-holds-barred take on modern life.

The great trilogy of theology by Hans Urs von Balthasar includes The Glory of the Lord, Theo-Drama, and Theo-Logic. His Epilogue, a single volume, is the closing of his masterwork, giving final details and overview to the prior volumes in the trilogy.

Let me tell you why you should be reading this book. You’re here because you know something. What you know you cannot explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there is something wrong with the world. You don’t know exactly what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to this book. Our ancestors did not realise that they were duped – that these unpredictable and claimed, one off banking and financial crisis, are in fact deliberately engineered by commercial bankers to create the illusion that there is a problem, that only they can provide the solution. The way banks crush the people is to grind them between the millstones of debt and engineered inflation. This book provides a positive future for Money that is completely different, where capital will be scarce and therefore valued. The free flow of Capital means capital will be less wasted on spurious, inflationary, or speculative projects. Capital will be the basis for recovering economic progress, so sadly lost at an increasing pace since the dollar became purely an irredeemable fiat currency based solely upon unrepayable future dated private bank debt. The World Currency Unit, carries no credit or counterparty risks, it serves as a "value anchor" to the worlds currencies within all economic environments, making it the most crucial reserve asset worldwide. Collectively with the knowledge of money, currency, and capital, free from all forms of extortion and violence, we can change our future, this book provides the knowledge and tools to create a better world for ourselves, our family, and our society.

Through the ages, the book of Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) has elicited a wide variety of interpretations. Its status as wisdom literature is secure, but its meaning for the religion of the Hebrew Bible and its heirs has been a matter of much debate. The debate has swung from claiming orthodoxy for the book to arguing that the message intended by its author is heterodox, in its entirety. There are a number of passages in the book that present difficulties for any comprehensive approach to the work. Martin Shields here fully acknowledges the heterodox nature of Qoheleth's words but offers an orthodox reading of the book as a whole through the eyes of the author of the epilogue. After a survey of attitudes regarding wisdom in the Hebrew Bible itself, which serves as an orientation to the monograph as a whole, Shields provides a detailed study of the epilogue (Qoh 12:9-14), which he believes is the key to the reading of the remainder of the book. He then addresses various problematic texts in the book in light of this perspective, arguing that the book could originally have functioned as a warning to students against joining a wisdom movement that existed at the time of the book's composition. Qoheleth is presented as a true adherent of this movement, and the divergence of his words from the theism presented in the rest of the Hebrew Bible becomes the basis of the epilogue's critique. Finally, Shields proposes a historical context in which just this scenario may have arisen, showing that the desire of the writer of the epilogue is to correct a wayward wisdom tradition.