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His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the schedule, scrub, cut, reattach, save a life or two, repeat. Until March 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic shut hospital surgeries all over the world.Craig Smith, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, went from performing heart surgeries on patients both eve...

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The achievements and legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, inspired by the work of Christopher Berry The Scottish Enlightenment has been one of the growth fields in scholarship on eighteenth-century intellectual history. The era is renowned for its seminal and interrelated contributions to understanding the emergence of the human sciences, the framing of modern political economy and for its pioneering study of commercial society. This collecti...

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Evidence has been accumulating for the past several decades that mankind will likely be threatened by its own existence sometime in the next 50-100 years. By the end of the 21st century, population and economic growth will cause depletion of many essential natural resources and serious deterioration in many terrestrial and marine habitats, including our own. This catastrophe can be averted. We have the tools. Why aren't we doing more? What ...

Evidence has been accumulating for the past several decades that mankind will likely be threatened by its own existence sometime in the next 50-100 years. By the end of the 21st century, population and economic growth will cause depletion of many essential natural resources and serious deterioration in many terrestrial and marine habitats, including our own. This catastrophe can be averted. We have the tools. Why aren't we doing more? What ...

The nighttime air was humid. A steady wind whirls ferociously and hurls sandy debris everywhere. A set of predator's eyes emerge from the darkness, attentive and unwavering. Rumer has the innate ability to metamorphosize into myth and that myth into legend, as slowly the embodiment of its origin can barely be recognizable against the mythology that it now embodies, which created the humans fear of darkness in the first place.The myth had many ...

Examines the ratification of the US Constitution in 1787 and 1788, and the arguments surrounding the ratification of the Bill of Rights from 1789 to 1791. The book claims that attempts to form a better union after the failure of the Articles of Confederation reinforced fundamental freedoms.

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Smith examines the major canons of classical rhetorical theory by demonstrating their influence on Christian speakers. He begins by explaining why charisma has become a misused term. He then explores why writing about charisma has been so difficult in terms of the academic prejudice in favor of objectivity and reason. He then constructs a three- level definition of charisma to replace the current one. After analyzing the charisma of Jesus in ...

Like no other orator in American history, Daniel Webster dominated the Federal courts, the Congress, and the public speaking circuit. In this book, Smith offers a close study of the rhetorical techniques and powers of persuasion that gave Webster a uniquely influential voice in the political, legal, and social affairs of the young republic. The volume includes the edited texts of six speeches that illustrate the range of Webster's achievements...

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was a statesman and lawyer who embodied the golden age of oratory in America, mastering each of the major genres of public speaking of the time. This study examines Webster's career and how his great speeches and created a "civil religion" that moved citizens to true romantic patriotism.

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An avid high school debater and enthusiastic student body president, Craig Smith seemed destined for a life in public service from an early age. As a sought-after speechwriter, Smith had a front-row seat at some of the most important events of the twentieth century, meeting with Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon, advising Governor Ronald Reagan, writing for President Ford, serving as a campaign manager for a major U.S. senator's reelection camp...

After 100 years of deliberate debasement, the US dollar is dying. Our politicians have deceptively siphoned off so much of its value that a 2012 dollar has only two pennies of the purchasing power of a 1913 dollar. This great debasement of Americas money is by far the largest confiscation of wealth in world history -- and you, your children, and your grandchildren are the ones on the losing end of this century-long policy. The Federal Reserve ...

Examines major challenges to the Fist Amendment and focuses on the extremely important paradigm shift of freedom of expression in the post-9/11 era.

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Crackles with the page-turning excitement of a spy novel or murder mystery as it tracks down those who are killing the US dollar, and strips bare the secret agenda and tactics of those behind today's impending economic collapse.

At the end of life, we will not be remembered for the number of friends we had, but rather, how true we were to the friends that mattered.

Herod the Great provides this memoir from Hell because he wishes to set the record straight. Herod finds historic figures in Hell to help him, including his son Herod Antipas, who ruled during Jesus' crucifixion, Cleopatra, who at first befriended and then turned on Herod, Marc Antony, who made him AKing of the Jews. We also meet such characters as Caesar Augustus, Pontius Pilate, Pope Leo X, Martin Luther, and Henry VIII. In this memoir, Hero...