Michael Edwards
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In 2007, Thomas Kearney had it all. He had just become the youngest bank president in US history and was living in the penthouse suite atop the Ritz Carlton on Miracle Mile in Chicago. Thomas loved Chicago, and Chicago loved him. After losing his dream job due to the banking collapse of 2008, Thomas moved back to the Southside and took a job working as a day trader. Down but not out, he nevertheless remains a recluseuntil the day he attends the Cog...
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This was a labor of love. I would like to thank God for giving me the courage and strength to take a chance in putting this idea in print. And of course I thank my parents Dorothy and Robert Edwards for giving me the freedom to do my thing. And last but not least my brothers and friends. For giving me the fuel of excuses to keep this engine going and going and going.
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Christianity is always untimely, always foreign to our beliefs and contrary to our desires. It was untimely in Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome when Jesus and his early followers were killed. It is just as untimely now. But we have become deaf to its otherness, to the disruptive strangeness of Christian faith. If we are to hear it again, we must traverse the distance between our comfortable and overly conceptual Christianity and the true Christianity that...
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How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, the author provides the definitive statement of his economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.
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Penguin Random House Australia
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2021
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Nearly one in five girls aged 16-17 years meet the clinical criteria for depression.
One in fourteen young Australians (7%) aged 4-17 experienced an anxiety disorder.
These figures only get worse as our girls age with one in three women in Australia experiencing anxiety.
This indispensable guide will provide the tools to raising a girl who is happy and confident. Because when you raise a girl who...
One in fourteen young Australians (7%) aged 4-17 experienced an anxiety disorder.
These figures only get worse as our girls age with one in three women in Australia experiencing anxiety.
This indispensable guide will provide the tools to raising a girl who is happy and confident. Because when you raise a girl who...
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Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern.
In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas," Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited
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Following the end of the American Revolutionary War (but prior to the establishment of the US Constitution) three of the Founding Fathers - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison - prepared 85 articles in support of ratifying the Constitution and published them under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to try and rouse the public's support for ratification.
The first seventy-seven of these essays were published between October 1787 and...
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This is the book that launched Buckley's career. As a young recent Yale graduate, Buckley took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs, citing their hypocritical diversion from the tenets on which the institution was built. Yale was founded on the belief that God exists, and thus virtue and individualism represent immutable cornerstones of education. However, when Buckley wrote this scathing expose, the institution had made an about face:...
20) Mommie Dearest
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The public Crawford was strong-willed, glamorous and admirable, but "Mommie Dearest" reveals the private Crawford, the woman desperate to be a mother, adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in the devastating movie industry.