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Michael Morpurgo Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom. Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience" many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers." Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.

A New York Times Bestseller!On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael’s criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no fingerprints or DNA, no eyewitness linking Michael to the killing. The trial ignited a media firestorm that transfixed the nation.Now, Skakel’s cousin, acclaimed attorney and award-winning writer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solves the baffling whodunit and clears his cousin’s name.Kennedy, with meticulous research and reporting, proves that Michael Skakel did not and could not have murdered Martha Moxley. He chronicles how Skakel was, nevertheless, railroaded amidst a media frenzy by the devious actions of a crooked cop, a trio of mendacious writers, a treacherous family lawyer nursing a secret grudge, a narcissistic defense attorney obsessed by the spotlight, a craven prosecutor gone rogue, and a parade of perjuring witnesses. These colorful characters leap off the pages like seedy villains in a dime-store crime novel But it’s all true.Kennedy also shows how he tracked down the likely killers, a pair of ghosts who moved in and out of Greenwich and whose presence was detected by neither police nor press during 30 years of costly yet shoddy investigation. Today, those men walk free.This startling expose an explosive exploration of murder and fame is the tragic true story of Skakel’s conviction that the public has never heard. It is the product of hundreds of interviews with Skakel and those who knew both him and Martha Moxley. Kennedy gives us a real life thriller with twists and turns, and finally answers the 40-year-old question, Who killed Martha Moxley?”The book is at once a riveting drama and an impassioned critique of the American media and legal system.

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Tours the brains of great athletes to show how both accomplishment and tragedy may be the result of some unusual neurons

Gold Award Winner for Philosophy in the 2004 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards Why does truth matter, when politicians so easily sidestep it and intellectuals scorn it as irrelevant? Why be concerned over an abstract idea like truth when something that isn't true—for example, a report of Iraq's attempting to buy materials for nuclear weapons—gets the desired result—the invasion of Iraq? In this engaging and spirited book, Michael Lynch argues that truth does matter, in both our personal and political lives. Lynch explains that the growing cynicism over truth stems in large part from our confusion over what truth is. "We need to think our way past our confusion and shed our cynicism about the value of truth," he writes. "Otherwise, we will be unable to act with integrity, to live authentically, and to speak truth to power." True to Life defends four simple claims: that truth is objective; that it is good to believe what is true; that truth is a goal worthy of inquiry; and that truth can be worth caring about for its own sake—not just because it gets us other things we want. In defense of these "truisms about truth," Lynch diagnoses the sources of our cynicism and argues that many contemporary theories of truth cannot adequately account for its value. He explains why we should care about truth, arguing that truth and its pursuit are part of living a happy life, important in our personal relationships and for our political values.

Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being a silly parlor game, the question impacts our lives concretely and deeply. Modern Western culture has been infected with antirealism and the doubt, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and atheism that attends it--not to mention distrust and arbitrary (mis)use of reality. Premier scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi stepped aside from research to offer an innovative account of knowing that takes its cue from how discovery actually happens. Polanyi defied the antirealism of the twentieth century, sounding a ringing note of hope in his repeated claim that in discovery, we know we have made contact with reality because "we have a sense of the possibility of indeterminate future manifestations." And that sense marks contact with reality, because it is the way reality is: abundant, generous, and fraught with as-yet-unnameable possibilities. This book examines that distinctive claim, contrasting it to the wider philosophical discussions regarding realism and antirealism in the recent decades. It shows why Polanyi's outlook is superior, and why that matters, not just to scientific discoverers, but to us all.

The story of a Jewish rabbi who becomes a believer of Jesus Christ.

Tours the brains of great athletes to show how both accomplishment and tragedy may be the result of some unusual neurons

There is no debating the fact that the Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls were nothing short of dominant during the '90s, boasting six championships in eight seasons. In the 1997-98 season, Jordan yet again showed why is considered by most to be the G.O.A.T. leading the league in points per game and securing his fifth NBA Most Valuable Player award. Jordan and the high powered bulls finished the season capping off their second Championship three-peat and cementing their place in history as one of the greatest dynasties in sports history.Twill logo, name and numbersWoven league, player name & year ID tag at bottom hem100% polyester mesh bodyThis model is 6'0" wearing a size Large.

There is no debating the fact that the Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls were nothing short of dominant during the '90s, boasting six championships in eight seasons. In the 1997-98 season, Jordan yet again showed why is considered by most to be the G.O.A.T. leading the league in points per game and securing his fifth NBA Most Valuable Player award. Jordan and the high powered bulls finished the season capping off their second Championship three-peat and cementing their place in history as one of the greatest dynasties in sports history.Twill logo, name and numbersWoven league, player name & year ID tag at bottom hem100% polyester mesh bodyThis model is 6'0" wearing a size Large.

There is no debating the fact that the Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls were nothing short of dominant during the '90s, boasting six championships in eight seasons. In the 1997-98 season, Jordan yet again showed why is considered by most to be the G.O.A.T. leading the league in points per game and securing his fifth NBA Most Valuable Player award. Jordan and the high powered bulls finished the season capping off their second Championship three-peat and cementing their place in history as one of the greatest dynasties in sports history.Twill logo, name and numbersWoven league, player name & year ID tag at bottom hem100% polyester mesh bodyThis model is 6'0" wearing a size Large.

There is no debating the fact that the Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls were nothing short of dominant during the '90s, boasting six championships in eight seasons. In the 1997-98 season, Jordan yet again showed why is considered by most to be the G.O.A.T. leading the league in points per game and securing his fifth NBA Most Valuable Player award. Jordan and the high powered bulls finished the season capping off their second Championship three-peat and cementing their place in history as one of the greatest dynasties in sports history.Twill logo, name and numbersWoven league, player name & year ID tag at bottom hem100% polyester mesh bodyThis model is 6'0" wearing a size Large.

There is no debating the fact that the Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls were nothing short of dominant during the '90s, boasting six championships in eight seasons. In the 1997-98 season, Jordan yet again showed why is considered by most to be the G.O.A.T. leading the league in points per game and securing his fifth NBA Most Valuable Player award. Jordan and the high powered bulls finished the season capping off their second Championship three-peat and cementing their place in history as one of the greatest dynasties in sports history.Twill logo, name and numbersWoven league, player name & year ID tag at bottom hem100% polyester mesh bodyThis model is 6'0" wearing a size Large.

2010 fourth studio album from the award winning country pop quartet produced by Wayne Kirkpatrick (Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kim Hill). This album was the band's first #1 on the Country Album charts. There were three singles released from the album including the top ten hit "Little White Church", "Kiss Goodbye" & "the Reason Why".

Starting with 9/11 and continuing with the struggle for peace in Iraq, the West has been forced to interact more fully with the civilization of Islam. In The Universal Hunger for Liberty, statesman and award-winning author Michael Novak sets forth a new model for facing this challenge-and for healing a still violently fractured world. In place of ongoing conflict, he offers a surprisingly optimistic vision of how the concept of fundamental human liberty-shared by the Islamic and Judeo-Christian traditions-can heal our cultural, economic, and political differences.

Michael Winter's powerful new novel, The Big Why, brilliantly fictionalizes a pivotal year in the life of celebrated American artist Rockwell Kent. In 1914, at the age of thirty, Kent decides to escape the superficial world of New York City and move to Brigus, Newfoundland, with his wife and three children to follow a few months later. A socialist and a philanderer, certain in the greatness of his work, he is drawn north by a fascination for the rocky Atlantic coast and by the example of Brigus's other well-known resident, fabled Arctic explorer Robert Bartlett. But once in Newfoundland, Kent discovers that notoriety is even easier to achieve in a small town than in New York. As events come to a head both internationally and domestically and the war begins, Kent becomes a polarizing figure in this intimate, impoverished community, where everyone knows everyone and any outsider is suspect, possibly even a German spy. Writing in Kent's voice, Michael Winter delivers a passionate, witty, and cerebral exploration of what makes exceptional individuals who they are--and why. Shortlisted for the Trillium Award

A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the challenges of social change. But in this hard-hitting, controversial exposé, Michael Edwards shows that business is ill-equipped to attack the causes of poverty, inequality, violence, and discrimination. Achieving fundamental social transformation requires cooperation rather than competition, collective action more than individual effort, and support for long-term, systemic solutions instead of immediate results. With a vested interest in the status quo, business can promise only limited advances: small change. It’s time to turn away from the false promise of the market and reassert the independence of global citizen action.

Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business Week chart of America's highest-paid executives, his $203 million in earnings roughly 10,000 times that of the lowest paid Disney employee.During the last two decades, the top one percent of U.S. earners captured more than 40 percent of the country's total earnings growth, one of the largest shifts any society has endured without a revolution or military defeat. Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook argue that behind this shift lies the spread of "winner-take-all markets"—markets in which small differences in performance give rise to enormous differences in reward. Long familiar in sports and entertainment, this payoff pattern has increasingly permeated law, finance, fashion, publishing, and other fields. The result: in addition to the growing gap between rich and poor, we see important professions like teaching and engineering in aching need of more talent. This relentless emphasis on coming out on top—the best-selling book, the blockbuster film, the Super Bowl winner—has molded our discourse in ways that many find deeply troubling.

An collection of author Michael Snyder's artful prose on the ecology and conservation of northern forests. A steadfast companion for anyone with a love for the woods and a desire to learn more about them. The author has served as the Commissioner of Vermont Forests, Parks, and Recreation since 2011.

Why Coolidge Matters is a collection of essays asserting President Calvin Coolidge's lasting value for American life and politics. Whether it's Governor of Vermont James H. Douglas urging that "every one of us could use a little Coolidge now and again," former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis admitting it was a pleasant accident to discover "Silent Cal," or Senator John F. Kerry arguing America needs a Calvin Coolidge today to restore faith in politics, the 21 unique perspectives authored by political leaders, journalists, historians and prominent public voices in Why Coolidge Matters present the ideas and ideals of a man who is often dismissed, misquoted, stereotyped and under-appreciated.