The most recent 8 books by Best Most First Press all started at ONE TURNING POINT--an intellectual pattern that needed practical and social and intellectual elaboration--a way to orient yourself and all your endeavors in world losing its own directions and orientation. This book came more directly than that from READER RESPONSES--first readers of all 8 books complained--that there were too many books each with too many topics in its table of contents and even too many ideas and cases on this and that individual page. "We need orientation" --which books come first, which are best, which fill in gaps, and the like--"we need a meta-book that guides readers thru use of these recent books".

THIS BOOK is that Meta-Book that guides to 8 other recent books by us.

1, EXPAND: BARS to FRONTIERS, Vol. 2 of 4: 50 Tools Expanding WHO does things & HOW: Your MIND the world's TOP overall computational system: LEARN & USE it full powers
2, DIFFERENT DIFFERENCES from Fear & Flight to Use & Benefit: DIFFERENCES CREATE
3, FIRST FIGHTS 40 on your way to GREATNESS & CREATIVITY: 150 atop 63 professions all fought & won these 40 fights
4, EMOTION: PARADOXES--Use Them or They Use You; PRACTICES--Get Notice, Feel, Idea TOGETHER
5, TOTALIZING: QUALITY & QUALITIES OF YOU: Greatness without rich elite starts; Surpass social Noise & Venality
6, SHEER THINKING How it Gets You All Your Dreams AFTER It Improves Them: Fixing our "Beat Minds Worst Outcomes" Problem
7, BIG DREAMS BIG TOOLS: that Grow Craft & "go viral" Creating INTO: Changing Whole Fields & History CREATING
8, CITY-FY: Get from how Cities get built & revived General Creativity Operators that Turn ALL We are and do into Nested Insights: Taking Place--Cities and City-lives as Nested Insight Processes

The title of THIS META-BOOK, guide to the 8 books above names what all the above share: TURNING YOU HORIZONTAL. What in the world can this mean? Why is it vital?

Readers readily sense that most of their selves and lives go VERTICAL--rats racing other rats to "get ahead". At time we feel RELIEF--that is called friends and family who stay with us without regard to status wealth and how far "ahead" we got. Perhaps all this comes from male hormones afterall trees in this and that jungle are full of primates lorded over by a kingpin CEO at the top branch who does all the fucking and abuses the monkeys below. Perhaps this comes from inequality of wealth--layers inheriting power and resources and certain they are themselves lazy drugie jerks putting on loud shows about their own skills and deeds amplified by media they buy--Musk-ettes we might call them never mentioning that Emerald Mine. Perhaps this is caused by agriculture's food surplus allowing inequality to reign. Whatever the cause--people CONQUER THE ENTIRE INDUSTRIAL WORLD REGULARLY by going horizontal--by undoing all the ratnesses, the reacings, the succeeding, the venality, greed, rapacity--of MBAs and elite professors. Japan conquered 11 industries in all OECD nations between 1970 and 1990 by its invention of a new horizontal essence of business that UNDID its own culture of vast verticality (Nakane Chie wrote a book defining Japan's culture titled THE VERTICAL SOCIETY). The web and next day air freight infrastructures in 12 years, oriented horizontally due to Japan's new essence of business, made the COST of going horizontal vastly cheaper to the entire planet earth.

I dare not write more here as that would intrude on this and that of the 8 books. Suffice it to say--each of the 8 books is 2000 applied ideas and THIS GUIDE is 4000 applied ideas the other books share.