Michael Edwards
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Michael Edwards returned to the English tongue for his last book of poems, “At the Brasserie Lipp” (2019), after years as a French-language author. English revived many nerves of memory, and in Another Art of Poetry he explores them further, in ten chapters, each consisting of continuously numbered sections. There are 194 sections, so we can read the book as a continuous sequence, as ten discrete poems, or as single lyrics and epistles interspersed.
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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...
3) Vigilance
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Answer this question honestly: Are you as vigilant about the condition of your soul as you are about the condition of your body, your house, your bank account or a myriad of other earthly concerns?
This little book takes a look at that through a combination of verses and biblical references. Through poetry, it takes a look at where we hope our lives will lead us as well as looking at our sins and our foibles. There are specific biblical references...
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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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A former Ford Foundation director takes a critical look at the role of for-profit companies in philanthropy-and exposes the troubling risks and downsides.
A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by bringing the magic of the market to philanthropy. Nonprofits should be run like businesses, its adherents say, and businesses can find new sources of revenue by marketing goods and services that benefit society. What could be wrong with...
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It wasn't the aliens she had to worry about; it was the humans.
A troubled young woman is recruited by a race of ancient alien explorers to be their emissary to save the human race from extinction. The problem is that not everyone believes the world is doomed, and not everyone trusts the aliens' motives. Holly Burton will have to overcome opposition from world leaders, attacks by religious zealots, assassination attempts, intractable bureaucracies,...
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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, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy -- one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over a million copies in English,...
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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 prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and put their faith in family, custom, law,...
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This seminal collection, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym 'Publius,' was a crucial element in the ratification of the United States Constitution. The essays offer profound insights into the motivations and fears of the Founding Fathers, providing readers with a rare glimpse into the intellectual framework that underpins the U.S. political system.
The book brilliantly positions the need for a strong,...
19) Sociopathy
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This audiobook will open your eyes to what craziness lives among us.
Some lawbreakers are psychopaths, and some psychopaths break the law, but for the most part, the psychopaths among us are ordinary people with distinct traits and qualities. Sociopaths have a distinct disorder that makes them unlike all the other ones. You may even know some yourself, or maybe you have been influenced by one in the past. In this book, you will learn:
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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:...