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Author: Chris Berg Publisher: ISBN: 9781921421570 Category : Ideals (Philosophy) Languages : en Pages : 339
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Dozens of Australia's best thinkers, writers and commentators reassess the books that provide the foundation for liberty and democracy in Australia and around the world. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and everything in between, Australian freedom has been influenced by - and influenced - the greatest ideas from around the world. of interest to students of liberty and political pundits alike, 100 Great Books of Freedom also brings out the neglected Australia legacy of liberty, identifying the 19th and 20th century classics by Bruce Smith, Keith Hancock, CD Kemp, WE Hearn and many, many others. With contributions from some of Australia's leading liberal, conservative and libertarian writers, including Michael Duffy, John Roskam, Wolfgang Kasper, Sam Gregg, John Hyde, Andrew Norton, Suri Ratnapala, John Nethercote, David Kemp, Peter Saunders, and dozens more, 100 Great Books of Freedom is not just a guide to the world's best thinking about liberty, but is a clear picture of intellectual life in Australia in the first decade of the 21st century. While governments and politicians around the world are spending, regulating and restricting individual liberty at an unprecedented pace, The 100 Great Books of Freedom is an essential addition to Australia's liberal identity. 100 Great Books of Freedom is a joint project of the Institute of Public Affairs and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation.
Author: Chris Berg Publisher: ISBN: 9781921421570 Category : Ideals (Philosophy) Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
Dozens of Australia's best thinkers, writers and commentators reassess the books that provide the foundation for liberty and democracy in Australia and around the world. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and everything in between, Australian freedom has been influenced by - and influenced - the greatest ideas from around the world. of interest to students of liberty and political pundits alike, 100 Great Books of Freedom also brings out the neglected Australia legacy of liberty, identifying the 19th and 20th century classics by Bruce Smith, Keith Hancock, CD Kemp, WE Hearn and many, many others. With contributions from some of Australia's leading liberal, conservative and libertarian writers, including Michael Duffy, John Roskam, Wolfgang Kasper, Sam Gregg, John Hyde, Andrew Norton, Suri Ratnapala, John Nethercote, David Kemp, Peter Saunders, and dozens more, 100 Great Books of Freedom is not just a guide to the world's best thinking about liberty, but is a clear picture of intellectual life in Australia in the first decade of the 21st century. While governments and politicians around the world are spending, regulating and restricting individual liberty at an unprecedented pace, The 100 Great Books of Freedom is an essential addition to Australia's liberal identity. 100 Great Books of Freedom is a joint project of the Institute of Public Affairs and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation.
Author: John Bona Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC ISBN: 1424552907 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 285
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News reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return. The Liberty Book examines the Christian roots of liberty, idolatry, taxation, foundations for freedom, the right to bear arms, the great freedom documents in history, pro-life and liberty, land rights, social involvement, and more. With God’s help freedom can be revived. We must all work to pull America back from the cliffs-edge fall into tyranny. Our nation is again in search of genuine liberty under God. Discover what Bible-based liberty looks like and how it can be won for you and your children.
Author: Charles T. Sprading Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute ISBN: 1610161076 Category : Languages : en Pages : 545
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In 1913, Charles T. Sprading (1871-1959) wrote a book of remarkable prescience that anticipated the systematic development of an American libertarian tradition. He called it Liberty and the Great Libertarians. What he provided was a biography and intellectual analysis of some thirty great thinkers. Most valuable is his extraordinary job of editing. He chooses the best and most enlightening of their writings and brings them to life. The thinkers covered include Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, William Godwin, Wilhelm von Humboldt, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Josiah Warren, Max Stirner, Henry D. Thoreau, Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, Henry George, Benjamin Tucker, Pierre Kropotkin, Abraham Lincoln, Auberon Herbert, G. Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Maria Montessori, and others. Now, not all of these people would be considered libertarians by the modern understanding. Some even called themselves socialists, as absurd as that may sound to us today. But they all exhibited in their writings a deep and abiding attachment to the idea of human liberty. They agree in the primacy of the individual. They agreed that the greatest threat to individual rights is the state. And they believed in fighting for these rights. They believed in the freedom of assembly, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom to think and act. They hated war and social control. They rejected every form of authoritarianism, and, in all these areas, they made huge contributions. As Sprading says in his introduction: The greatest violator of the principle of equal liberty is the State. Its functions are to control, to rule, to dictate, to regulate, and in exercising these functions it interferes with and injures individuals who have done no wrong. The objection to government is, not that it controls those who invade the liberty of others, but that it controls the non-invader. It may be necessary to govern one who will not govern himself, but that in no wise justifies governing one who is capable of and willing to govern himself. To argue that because some need restraint all must be restrained is neither consistent nor logical. Governments cannot accept liberty as their fundamental basis for justice, because governments rest upon authority and not upon liberty. To accept liberty as the fundamental basis is to discard authority; that is, to discard government itself; as this would mean the dethronement of the leaders of government, we can expect only those who have no economic compromises to make, to accept equal liberty as the basis of justice. The introduction alone is extraordinary, given the times. On war he writes: "How is war to be abolished? By going to war? Is bloodshed to be stopped by the shedding of blood? No; the way to stop war is to stop going to war; stop supporting it and it will fall, just as slavery did, just as the Inquisition did. The end of war is in sight; there will be no more world wars. The laboring-man, who has always done the fighting, is losing his patriotism; he is beginning to realize that he has no country or much of anything else to fight for, and is beginning to decline the honor of being killed for the glory and profits of the few. Those who profit by war, those who own the country, will not fight for it; that is, they are not patriotic if it is necessary for them to do the killing or to be killed in war. In all the wars of history there are very few instances of the rich meeting their death on the battlefield." This is a fat book, 542 pages, with a vast index. It remains the best chronicle of libertarian thought ever put together, which is why Murray Rothbard chose this book as one of his favorites. This edition is a reprint of the original 1913 volume.
Author: Yasmin Sabina Khan Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801463602 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 241
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Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. Dramatically situated on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in the harbor of New York City, the statue has served as a reminder for generations of immigrants of America's long tradition as an asylum for the poor and the persecuted. Although it is among the most famous sculptures in the world, the story of its creation is little known. In Enlightening the World, Yasmin Sabina Khan provides a fascinating new account of the design of the statue and the lives of the people who created it, along with the tumultuous events in France and the United States that influenced them. Khan's narrative begins on the battlefields of Gettysburg, where Lincoln framed the Civil War as a conflict testing whether a nation "conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal... can long endure." People around the world agreed with Lincoln that this question—and the fate of the Union itself—affected the "whole family of man." Inspired by the Union's victory and stunned by Lincoln's death, Édouard-René Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a legal scholar and noted proponent of friendship between his native France and the United States, conceived of a monument to liberty and the exemplary form of government established by the young nation. For Laboulaye and all of France, the statue would be called La Liberté Éclairant le Monde—Liberty Enlightening the World. Following the statue's twenty-year journey from concept to construction, Khan reveals in brilliant detail the intersecting lives that led to the realization of Laboulaye's dream: the Marquis de Lafayette; Alexis de Tocqueville; the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, whose commitment to liberty and self-government was heightened by his experience of the Franco-Prussian War; the architect Richard Morris Hunt, the first American to study architecture at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and the engineer Gustave Eiffel, who pushed the limits for large-scale metal construction. Also here are the contributions of such figures as Senators Charles Sumner and Carl Schurz, the artist John La Farge, the poet Emma Lazarus, and the publisher Joseph Pulitzer. While exploring the creation of the statue, Khan points to possible sources—several previously unexamined—for the design. She links the statue's crown of rays with Benjamin Franklin's image of the rising sun and makes a clear connection between the broken chain under Lady Liberty's foot and the abolition of slavery. Through the rich story of this remarkable national monument, Enlightening the World celebrates both a work of human accomplishment and the vitality of liberty.
Author: Os Guinness Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830873376 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 335
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The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Will conflicts, hostility, and incivility tear the country apart? Os Guinness provides a careful observation of the American experiment, offering a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.
Author: Elizabeth Mann Publisher: Mikaya Press ISBN: 1931414459 Category : New York (N.Y.) Languages : en Pages : 25
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Presents a brief history of the Statue of Liberty and describes how France gave the statue to New York City to commemorate the realtionship between the two countries, the creation and erection of the statue, and how its meaning has changed.
Author: Robert McCrum Publisher: ISBN: 9781903385838 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author: Alexander Lagos Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0375856714 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 177
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Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.
Author: Liberty of London Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 9781452102375 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
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Crafters and fashion lovers will be lining up to get their hands on the very first sewing book from internationally popular and uber-stylish textile brand Liberty. Brimming with lavish photographs of bold, graphic fabrics, The Liberty Book of Home Sewing offers 25 irresistible and easy-to-make projects that allow readers to incorporate a touch of Liberty elegance into their home. Simple enough for beginners, the projects range from feminine totes and aprons to handy pincushions and book covers, full-sized quilts, chic throws, plush cushions, and more. With color step-by-step illustrations, detailed instructions, and plenty of inspiration, plus an exquisite fabric cover, this enchantingly beautiful book will be treasured by longtime Liberty fans and young crafters alike.
Author: Chris Berg
Author: Chris Berg
Author: John Bona
Author: Charles T. Sprading
Author: Yasmin Sabina Khan
Author: Os Guinness
Author: Elizabeth Mann
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Author: Robert McCrum
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Author: Liberty of London