1. Follow the path
Four books get you oriented. Don't start at Volume 01. It isn't the beginning.
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2. Open each book's page
Every book has its own page: what it does, what it promises, and where it sits in the series. Anything free is labelled clearly, and anything on sale shows its price.
3. Then pick your subject
After the first four, choose the one that matches what you're actually dealing with: faith, money, family arguments, or rebuilding.
Start here | the main trail
One recommended order. Tap a step to open that book.
Free | Vol 11 | scoreboard
The Drop and the DocumentA worked example: one real dump, claim by claim, without treating every sentence the same. Free, and about an hour.
Open site ->Case map | Vol 09 | $6.99 · live
The Whole CaseExhibit A, eight short checks, own-side 2A. The map. Not eight books.
Open site ->Method | Vol 03 | $7.99 · live
Read the DocumentVerification practice. Start with the document. Steelman the other side. Update when you're wrong.
Open site ->Diagnosis | Vol 01 | $11.99 · live
The Receipt WarWhere the headline said one thing and the paperwork said another. Click. Verify. Decide.
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After the trail | the other eight
The first four get you oriented. These are the remaining eight, and each one goes deep on a single subject. Pick whichever matches what you're actually dealing with, not the next number on the shelf.
Faith | Vol 07 | $11.99 · live
The Lens Problem
Why two people read the same verse and land in different worlds, and how to see the frame before the fight starts.
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Debate | Vol 12 | $9.99 · live
The Debate Ledger
Someone finally kept score. Thirteen months of religious debate, counted, including the fight nobody names.
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Table | Vol 05 | $8.99 · live
Hard Conversations
How to say the hard thing at the dinner table and still be invited back next year.
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Ledger | Vol 08 | $8.99 · live
Follow the Appropriation
Follow public money from the filing to the story it paid for, and know when the trail actually breaks.
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Playbook | Vol 02 | $7.99 · live
Shot Across the Bow
You've seen the pattern. Here's what to actually do this week.
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Builder | Vol 06 | $7.99 · live
After the Alarm
What to build once the panic passes: home, neighbourhood, the things you can touch.
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Defense | Vol 04 | $8.99 · live
The Civilization Brief
The honest case for the Western order, argued against the real alternatives instead of a cartoon.
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Institutions | Vol 10 | $8.99 · live
Entrenchment
When institutions move together, is it a plan or just the same incentives? How to tell, with evidence.
Get the book ->Browse by volume | full set
All twelve in shelf order, the way they would stand on a physical set. The reading order is the trail further up this page. The slider opens on Vol 11, the free one.
The shelf | all twelve spines
Every volume, in catalogue order. Click a spine to open that book. 11 is marked because it is the one that ships free in full.
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