"As he does every Saturday afternoon, Mason is digging next to the old swing when he finds a handful of items for his treasure collection... Mason's greatest gems is a story about finding hidden gems inside yourself, with an introduction to the concept of virtues for children."--Back cover.

Shalom, hotep and 13Ahavah to all who bliss this works with your precious attention and focus. It is my sincere hope and will that this compiled work of divine and right knowledge will elevate, protect, inform, uplift and inspire you to a better existence and future. This information has been hidden from my people for too long but now is the time of great revealing so that we may free ourselves from the shackles of bondage and be resurrected from mental death and live as we were always meant to, which is in harmony with our consanguinity and true customs and culture: Love, Truth, Peace, Justice and Freedom for All. This level of scholarship is brought to you by Th Elders of the Moors Order of The Roundtable, just a few of the loyal and Faithful Moors who carryout and embody what it is the Prophet Noble Sheik Sharif Abdul Ali A.K.A. Drew Ali uncovered and brought back to the Asiatics of Th North Gate/ North-West Amexem/North-West Afrika. May Th Divine will of Allah light Th flame of your consciousness and revive Th ancestral greatness of thy pedigree. All is well and well is all. Bro. Mafuz El Bey

This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do. Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 minds who describe their daily rituals to get their work done, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”.... Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day ... Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.” Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books ... Karl Marx ... Woody Allen ... Agatha Christie ... George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing ... Leo Tolstoy ... Charles Dickens ... Pablo Picasso ... George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers.... Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”).

The first in-depth account of an African American institution that spans the history of the American Republic.