All of Richard Maybury’s Uncle Eric series of books on economics, geopolitics, justice, and history are excellent educational experiences for both children and adults. The books in Uncle Eric’s model of how the world works can be read in any order, and have been written to stand alone. However, to get the most from each one, Mr Maybury suggests the order as they are listed below, and guides have been written to help get the most out of each one.

Mr Maybury plays the part of an economist writing a series of letters to his niece or nephew. Using stories and examples, he gives interesting and clear explanations of topics generally thought to be too difficult for anyone but experts.

If you have been avoiding economics and finance because you thought you couldn’t understand them, let alone explain them to your children, then you will love these books. Recommended for age 14+, however, they could easily be adapted for age 10+ with a bit of help from a parent. Fantastic books!

A word about Bluestocking Guides: These guides are designed to enhance a student’s understanding and retention of subject matter presented in the corresponding primer. Each guide includes comprehension questions, application questions (to guide the student in applying the concepts to everyday life), and a final exam. Also, there are research and essay assignments, and thought questions to facilitate student-instructor discussion.

edited by Jane A. Willimas & Kathryn Davis

This book is a recommended supplement to Whatever Happened to Penny Candy.  It contains articles originally published in The Freeman a journal published  by the Foundation for Economic Education. The editors have included excellent questions to assit your understanding and study of the contents.  Another very readable title by Bluestocking Press.  These books are pertinent for all people, not just Americans.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from the defects in thier constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Quincy Adams, 1829.

Property is the fruit of labour; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently to build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

by Darell Huff $22

A best seller and recommended by Richard Maybury (author of the Uncle Eric series). The author runs the gamut of every popular used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform. A highly readable and excellent book.

Mr Huff’s lively, human interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic…This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining, highly readable manner.  – Management Review

A pleasantly subversive little book, guarnteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic. - Library Journal

For the first time in America’s history, young ladies can expect to encounter a large gap between their years of basic training and the time when they marry… if they marry. Now Christian girls all throughout our country are seriously asking: What’s a girl to do with her single years?

Two years after the publication of their best-selling book, So Much More, Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin are taking the message of visionary daughterhood to a new level and into a new medium. This highly-controversial documentary will take viewers into the homes of several young women who have dared to defy today’s anti-family culture in pursuit of a biblical approach to daughterhood, using their in-between years to pioneer a new culture of strength and dignity, and to rebuild Western Civilization, starting with the culture of the home.

“After twenty-five years of speaking to the home-school movement, I have never seen a more effective tool to reach the hearts of fathers who love their daughters but don’t know how to lead them, than this powerful DVD by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin.”
—Dr. Marshall Foster

As the home goes, so often goes the church, and society at large. Learn along with Anna Sofia and Elizabeth, the fulfilling, exciting life of impact and accomplishment that young women can and should have. Discover the power of the family unit and a picture of the biblical home as the center of dominion work — a vibrant centre of education, ministry, evangelism, culture, entrepreneurialism and hospitality.

This DVD is not just for those of us with daughters.  Everyone will benefit from the truths communicated therein.  Do you want your sons to be knowledgable about what to look for in a wife?  What if God blesses them with daughters?  This is a great tool offering insight for our future’s men and fathers. And, not to mention heaps of encouragement for mums, too.

Read a review here.

58 minutes in length
Widescreen NTSC, all regions
50 minutes of extra materials

See also Anna Sophia and Elizabeth’s book So Much More

This book explains how events on the other side of the world a thousand years ago can affect us more than events in our own hometowns today.

The Thousand Year War in the Mideast is a concise European/Mideast history course. Learn about the Russians, Serbs, Croats, the Balkans, Kosovo, the Ottoman and Mongol empires, Turkey, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Russia, Oman, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Kurdistan, and more.

The events of the Thousand Year War have been the cause of great shocks to our economy and investment markets, including: the oil embargoes, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Iraq-Kuwait war, and the Caucasus Wars over the Caspian Sea oil basin. These shocks are likely to remain so for decades to come. Forewarned is forearmed. You must understand where this war is leading to manage your career, business and investments, as well as to reach an informed opinion regarding U.S. involvement in Mideast affairs. Quality paperback, 272 pages. Ages 14 through adult.

View chapter titles here.

The explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the beginning of a chain reaction that continues today. Mr. Maybury presents an idea-based explanation of the First World War. He focuses on the ideas and events that led to World War I, events during the war, and how they led to World War II. Includes the ten deadly ideas that lead to war. 

 A quote by the author from Ch. 1 ‘I will not give you a highly detailed chronology of the World Wars.  You can get that from any encyclopedia…..My purpose is not to repeat what you can easily find in these other sources, but to give you a way to understand it…My approach will be to give you what you will rarely get elsewhere, not a description, but an explanation.  I want you to understand the wars.  I will fill in a lot of blanks and you will experience some remarkable facts.’  Quality paper, 250 pages. Ages 14 through Adult.

(by Jim Cox, Author, ‘The Concise Guide to Economics’, Associate Professor Georgia Perimeter College)
Richard Maybury is a great author! In his two-volume world war series, ‘World War II’ along with the companion volume ‘World War I’, Maybury will give you a new perspective on wars and history, filled with facts of interest rarely mentioned elsewhere. ‘Uncle Eric’ writes succinctly and in a way to be understood. Highly, highly recommended!

View Table of Contents here.

Mr. Maybury presents an idea-based explanation of the Second World War. He focuses on events in the Second World War and how our misunderstanding of this war led to America’s subsequent wars, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Iraq-Kuwait War, and the ‘war on terrorism’ that began September 11, 2001. Quality paper, 349 pages. Ages 14 through Adult.

“The best book I’ve read on World War II. It provides genuinely original insights on why the U.S. didn’t need to become involved, and destroys many myths that persist about the war. Maybury ties the misunderstandings about World War II to the misunderstanding about today’s U.S. foreign policy. I also strongly recommend his books ‘World War I’and ‘Whatever Happened to Justice?’ ” by Harry Browne

“Richard Maybury is a great author! In his two-volume world war series, ‘World War II’ along with the companion volume ‘World War I,’ Maybury will give you a new perspective on wars and history, filled with facts of interest rarely mentioned elsewhere. ‘Uncle Eric’ writes succinctly and in a way to be understood. Highly, highly recommended!” (by Jim Cox, Author, ‘The Concise Guide to Economics,’ Associate Professor Georgia Perimeter College)

View Table of Contents here.

What does it take to be successful in business? Anthony Maybury used to think that in order to be successful in business one must know how to put complex theories into practice. He thought that success required knowledge of advanced mathematics, inventory management equations, and whiz-bang marketing techniques. But, he made some interesting discoveries. He came to realize that the greatest contributor to his business success was found in life experiences, not textbooks. Mr. Maybury said his business strategy was just “plain old common sense.” But, through years observing others in the business world, he realized that his common sense business strategy was not so common after all. In Common Sense Business for Kids, Anthony Maybury shares these discoveries with readers.

If you are searching for an engaging, down-to-earth introduction to business and entrepreneurship for students, this book will make an excellent addition to your home/school library. And, if you and your students have enjoyed Richard Maybury’s ‘Uncle Eric’ books and/or Karl Hess’ ‘Capitalism for Kids: Growing Up To Be Your Own Boss’ you will find ‘Common Sense Business for Kids’ a wonderful companion volume.

Although written at a reading and comprehension level that children ages 10 and up can understand, this book will also be beneficial to teens entering the workforce who will find Anthony Maybury a wise and gentle guide as they embark on their first journeys in business (and you might just find the nuggets of wisdom beneficial for your own business ventures, too!)

“I don’t just half-heartedly recommend this book…I want to urge you, as strongly and sincerely as possible to read it for yourself. Only then give it to a kid you like. Karl’s book crystallizes thoughts that most people have had, but haven’t thought out fully. It washes away the foundations upon which fears and guilt are constructed over a lifetime; it replaces them with ideas you always believed in intuitively but weren’t quite sure how to defend. This book is really great for kids and adults.’ –Douglas Casey, author of Investing in Crisis
“…definitely the best book I have ever seen directed to children on the theory of how to go into business for yourself…this book is really absorbing reading” -Mary Pride, The Teaching Home
Reading level 10+, younger with discussion.

As Mr. Maybury states, “The more information you get, the more you need models to separate the wheat from the chaff.” We are living in the information age. We are loaded down with data more than any other time in history. We need to know how to determine what is important and what is not. What to read and what to ignore.

 In this extensively revised and expanded second edition, through letters to his nephew, Uncle Eric introduces the concept of model. Models (or paradigms) are how people think; they are how we understand our world. Models help us recognize and use the information that is important and bypass that which is not.  Scientists do not memorize facts, but create models and compare all incoming facts against their models – revisng their models and checking the facts as they proceed.

To achieve success in our careers, investments, and every other part of our lives, we need sound models. In this book, Mr. Maybury introduces the models he has found most useful (Economics and Higher Law). This is the first book in the Uncle Eric series and, while designed to stand alone, provides an excellent foundation for Maybury’s other books.  Children aged 14 years and older will find these concepts easy, but Mr Maybury’s style is so clear that younger students could grasp them with a bit of parental guidance.  Good to read aloud to, and discuss with, all your children.  Workbooks are available to help enrich the learning experience. We love Richard Maybury’s books!