Michael Walsh
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In Western Civilization, the arts embody the eternal battle between good and evil, and through understanding the arts, we can address the political issues that plague us. Far from being museum pieces, simple recreation, or tales and artifacts from the past, the arts should be seen at the wellspring of our politics, and in particular in public policy debates. They are actually the reason we have public and foreign policy in the first place. In an age...
3) Spilt Wine
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The disappearance of a friend and millions of Francs worth of wine interrupts David's buying trip in France when he pauses to comfort and assist his friend's wife, Catherine. Their lives are threatened, the intensifying circumstances draw them closer together, and they uncover their buried traumas, insecurities and longings. This is a tale of mounting tensions, realisations and passions, woven through a gripping crime thriller on the Burgundy canals...
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In June 2020, prominent business and political leaders gathered for the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, under the rubric of "The Great Reset." In the words of WEF founder Klaus Schwab, the Great Reset is a "unique window of opportunity" afforded by the worldwide COVID-19 panic to build "a new social contract" ushering in a utopian era of economic, social, and environmental justice. But beneath their lofty and...
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In 1271, with the papal throne vacant for over two years, local officials locked the cardinals of the Catholic Church in a room, forcing them to select a new pope. From this inauspicious beginning arose the practice of the conclave, the highly secretive combination of rituals and politics designed to select a new leader for the world's Catholic population. With Pope John Paul II ailing, the time for a new conclave draws nearer, and Rome is preparing...
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Pope Francis is the first member of the Society of Jesus, the Catholic Church's largest religious order of men, to be elected to the papacy in its nearly five-hundred-year existence, even though the Society is known for the special vow of obedience to the papacy taken by its leading members. Yet despite that oath of loyalty, Jesuits and popes have frequently been at loggerheads, eventually leading to one pope imprisoning the Jesuit superior general...
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“Copper Capers” is a humorous account of the experiences, arrests, and the workings of a police department. You can't make this stuff up! Each short story chapter is an incident that becomes an antidote to what would have been a very dull and sometimes dangerous shift. Funny things are said and done by people being chased and caught by the police. For example, the man who adamantly declared, "I'm not taking the Polygram test!" or the woman who...
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Early in World War One, a young Canadian soldier is wounded and trapped behind German lines. He uses quick thinking and ingenuity to evade capture, then deeper into enemy territory, he meets a young woman who recently lost her father and brothers to the war. She takes him home to meet her mother, hoping he can help them escape back to their family roots in Switzerland. As they flee over the mountains, love blossoms and stirs old traumas. He's torn...
9) Gypsy
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When Detectives Matt Conley and Danny Angelo are called to the site of a grisly murder in a forest north of Boston, they begin a journey that will span New England – and challenge their beliefs about reality and the supernatural. Gypsies in a nearby campground lead Angelo to accuse knife-thrower Luca Starbird of the crime, while Conley's in no shape to judge. His wife is dying, and Luca's sister Gina bears an uncanny resemblance to the vibrant woman...
10) Unknown Diners
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Reviewing restaurants is normally a safe pursuit, but Lorne and Catherine face torture and death when they try to unravel organised crime's infiltration of the fine dining scene. Their longstanding friendship deepens when they meet again seven months after she was widowed by murder. While they help each other work through their traumatic pasts, their passion and intimacy increase, and they're unaware of the mounting danger until it's almost too...
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China's constitution explicitly refers to its sovereign domain as "sacred territory." Why does an avowedly secular state make such a claim, and what does this suggest about the relations between religion and the nation-state? Focusing primarily on China, Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation.
Michael J. Walsh explores the religious and political...
12) Ocean Park
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All Detective Matt Conley ever wanted was to raise a family in Ocean Park with his stunning and ambitious wife Lisa. When a corpse is found in his church, Matt begins a journey that reveals corruption and decay in his city and deceit in his marriage. As he searches for the murderer of a local businessman, a gang war erupts for control of the city's drug trade, and the body count rises. With his reluctant new partner, Detective Lloyd Kendricks, Matt...
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As successful business owners, we grow our companies to a certain level-and then we seem to plateau. How do we take our businesses to the next level?
Louise Pasterfield has worked with business consultant Michael Walsh to grow her UK company from £400,000 per annum to £2 million in four years. With Michael's continued help, she plans to go to £10 million in the next three to four years. While reviewing her progress, she and Michael identify the...
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A "compelling" novel based on the life of Irish American gangster Owen Madden, from a New York Times–bestselling author (Booklist). Winner of the American Book Award for Fiction His life of crime began at the age of ten, after he crossed the Atlantic with his family and landed in America. Starting as the leader of the most violent Irish street gang in Hell's Kitchen, the young immigrant rose to prominence as the leading brewer and bootlegger in...
15) This Wicked City
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Crime and corruption are rising in Ocean Park, a tired factory town in northern Massachusetts. The police and fire departments are no help-they're staging a work slowdown to protest a pay freeze caused by city budget cuts. Police Detective Matt Conley is
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La famille Oates vient d'emménager dans une vieille maison à Terre-Neuve, au Canada. Mais lorsqu'une sombre créature enlève leur petite sœur, Ben et Lynn décident de tout faire pour la retrouver. Les deux enfants découvrent un monde fantastique peuplé de fées, de dragons et de créatures mythiques : les Contrées de l'Elphyne. Dans ce monde façonné par leur imagination, ils se découvriront des pouvoirs dont rêvent tous les enfants...
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The Oates family moves to their ancestral home in Newfoundland following a pair of tragedies.They arrive at their Grandmother's house, where they reunite with their orphaned cousin. Shortly after arriving, Beth, the youngest sibling, is kidnapped by a dark creature. Her older siblings set out to find her and bring her back, finding themselves in the Elphyne-a magical world that exists between the ordinary world and the afterlife.
In the Elphyne,...
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Archie's Madhouse brings the first collection of the terrifying horror series that tears through Riverdale's cast of characters. Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite... but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives of some of the most well-known and esteemed inhabitants of Riverdale, Jughead and his family's dark legacy comes to light. Join writer Frank Tieri (Wolverine)...
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Welcome to Volume 2 of a personal memoir by Michael J. Walsh, which takes the reader from his early years in London, England after WWII to his departure in 1956 for a new life in Canada as a young teenager. Roughin' in in Kanata, eh! is the down to earth story of a life lived in two countries and the challenges that all outsiders experience. It is an honest description of the "new boy" in town trying desperately to be accepted in Windsor and London,...
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"Reeling from the events of the Armageddon Game, the TMNT grapple to hold it all together as the rest of New York City struggles to find equilibrium. A shamed mayor. A fallen wall. A new borough and broken trust among a found family. The city's new dynamic means a new slate of challenges and opportunities. And while a dark threat lurks in the shadows of Mutant Town, several of the Turtles' closest allies separate themselves from the brothers. Plus,...