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  Plans For Your Good - A Prime...

  Scott Morrison, Mike Pence

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  Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a global pandemic and recession, he chronicles God's faithfulness throughout, win or lose, public criticism or public success. 
  Less political memoir and more pastoral encouragement, Morrison is passionate about encouraging others to discover how they can access and see the many blessings of God in their own lives, no matter their circumstances, drawing on Jeremiah 29:11, that God's plans are for our good and not our harm, to give us a future and a hope. In each section Morrison asks the questions all of us are looking to find answers to:Who am I? Discovering your purpose.How should I live? Finding your pathway.What should I hope for? Embracing your future. 
    
  Full of fascinating insights into the handling of some of the most significant global events and issues of our time Morrison's honest, vulnerable and reflective answers offers a unique lens to better understand your relationship with God and the blessing that can flow from such a relationship. 
  Alongside an account of high-level politics in a new media age where cancel culture, identity politics and deep secularization is taking hold across so many western societies, creating a truly post Christian west, Morrison testifies to the faithful love and blessings of God.

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  Monkey to Man - The Evolution of...

  Gowan Dawson

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  The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the "march of progress," and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved 
   
   
    
  We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching. 
   
   
    
  This book is the first to examine the origins and history of this ubiquitous and hugely consequential illustration. In a story spanning more than a century, from Victorian Britain to America in the Space Age, Gowan Dawson traces the interconnected histories of the two most important versions of the image: the frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863) and "The Road to Homo Sapiens," a fold-out illustration in the bestselling book Early Man (1965). Dawson explores how the recurring appearances of this image pointed to shifting scientific and public perspectives on human evolution, as well as indicated novel artistic approaches, and advancements in technology.

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  Henry at Work - Thoreau on...

  Jonathan van Belle, John Kaag

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  What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful 
   
  Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful  
  of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked hard—surveying land, running his family’s pencil-making business, writing, lecturing, and building his cabin at Walden Pond—and thought intensely about work in its many dimensions. And his ideas about work have much to teach us  
  in an age of remote work and automation, when many people are reconsidering what kind of working lives they want to have. 
   
  Through Thoreau, readers will discover a philosophy of work in the office, factory, lumber mill, and grocery store, and reflect on the rhythms of the workday, the joys and risks of resigning oneself to work, the dubious promises of labor-saving technology, and that most vital and eternal of  
  philosophical questions, “How much do I get paid?” In ten chapters, including “Manual Work,” “Machine Work,” and “Meaningless Work,” this personal, urgent, practical, and compassionate book introduces readers to their new favorite coworker: Henry David Thoreau.

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  What Survives - What New Science...

  Robert Lanza MD

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  A provocative, groundbreaking exploration of humanity's deepest question: what happens after we die?If you've ever stood beside someone who just died—a parent, a friend, a pet—you know: that being isn't there anymore. The body becomes an abandoned shell, there in form yet hollow of what gave it meaning. What happened when they died?When Robert Lanza's sister died he did what any scientist would do: he looked for answers. In What Survives, he explores what new science—from biology to physics—is beginning to reveal about death and what survives it.Your brain runs on roughly 20 watts of power—a firefly's glow sustaining everything you are: every memory, every love, every flash of awareness. For a century, science insisted that when your heart stops, the light goes out. There is no soul. Death is the end.Now, for the first time in human history, we have evidence suggesting otherwise—arriving from experiments that won the 2025 and 2022 Nobel Prizes, and from new discoveries about observers and the nature of reality itself. The death we fear—oblivion, lights out, the end—may be an illusion born of biological limitation, not physical law.Lanza builds this case through a remarkable life in science—from a gambler's son to working alongside B.F. Skinner, Jonas Salk, and Nobel laureates. Through the losses that have shaped his life—from his mentors to his dog Max—he shows why your consciousness persists, why your pets survive, and why it may be the deepest truth science has ever uncovered.For anyone who has lost someone they loved—or feared their own mortality—What Survives offers hope grounded in science, not just faith.

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  The First Fleets - Colonial...

  Benjamin C. Schaffer

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  In The First Fleets, Benjamin C. Schaffer reveals how, contrary to widespread beliefs, the American colonies had a long tradition of independent naval defense decades before the Revolution. He demonstrates that Anglo-American governments established and maintained significant provincial naval forces and that the history of provincial navies illuminates broader aspects of colonial history and the colonies' ultimate break with the British Crown. Based on meticulous research, Schaffer recounts the sea-borne threats that American colonies faced from the French, Spanish, pirates, and others. He reviews colonial governance and the relationships between colonial governments and Great Britain. Highlighting Britain's scant naval power in North America, Schaffer demonstrates how the vulnerable coastal colonies undertook their own self-defense. 
   
   
   
  Schaffer's study offers many fascinating episodes from colonial history. Establishing a navy was controversial in pacifist-minded, Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania. South Carolina deployed its scout-boat navy to pursue enslaved Africans who fled colonial capture. The first paper money issued in North America was an initiative to pay for a naval expedition against French Quebec. These and other episodes show the intimate connection between these little-known provincial navies and the major sociopolitical developments of their day.

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  A Rare Recording of Oswald Mosley

  Oswald Mosley

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  Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley (1896 - 1980) was a British politician best remembered as leader of the British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts) in the 1930s. 
  Mosley was a Member of Parliament during various periods between 1918 to 1931. He is known for holding huge political rallies in Britain, while trying to unite the various fascist movements around Europe. 
  This is a recording of a speech that he gave in London in 1954. 
  A Listen & Live audio production.

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