New Releases by Ryan Murphy

Jack McKeown was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He was the oldest child of John and Esther McGowan McKeown. After enlisting, Jack was sent to build the new port of embarkation at Camp Upton on Long Island (near the town of Yaphank, NY). After six months at Upton, the Seventy-Seventh Division 306th Machine Gun Battalion Co. D. was shipped to France. Jack was soon promoted to 2nd Lieutenant Supply and Transportation Officer with the 305th Machine Gun Battalion Co. A. The 77th Division fought in the Argonne Forest which the Germans had seized early in the war. The 77th Infantry Division was the first "National Army" division created through the draft. It was the first American division of draftees to land in France. No other American division was closer to the German front than the 77th Division.

Formed in the early years after the Great Wars, the Champions are a group dedicated to the safety of Jardenia and its people. Aldron, an unassuming young man will quickly learn they are the force that stands between him and his certain demise at the hands of a once sworn Champion, Elian. Elian and his forces have vowed to never allow humans to once more rule the world. Through might or magic they are determined to end the current bloodline. Aldron, the last of his bloodline must face the perils of Jardenia and Elian''s forces in order to take his place in history among the kings of Jardenia. Aldron, with the Champions at his side, learns the truth of his being and that he must return to Rodan to take his proper place amongst his people, as their king. As preparations are made for their departure to Rodan evil arrives in Aldron''s home, the Black Glade. From the outset Aldron, the only human alive with innate magic, is hunted by Elian and Karan who are intent on his demise. The two are determined to destroy any chance the humans may come to hold magic and regain their foothold upon the world and have searched endlessly for Aldron since his disappearance as an infant. They believe the world has been caused enough grief by the humans and their greed. Aldron flees to the safety of Rodan and as quickly as he becomes king he learns there is much to be done to prevail over the evil brothers and their summoned horde of followers. .

Determined Delan is a rhyming advice book with facts and self-help tips for life. Lessons that both adults and children can learn from. The second in a series by father Ryan Murphy, Determined Declan is a great gift for new parents, toddlers'' birthdays, and bedtime or classroom reading. A little, red-head boy named Declan, Was born a cute, big, brown-eyed lad. Right from birth, he was small but mighty, Observed his mom and dad Any time he tried something, He would persevere and never considered to quit. From learning to walk and talk, To his very first baseball hit.

The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter markets and compete, and security of the person and privately owned property. Forty-two data points are used to construct a summary index, along with a Gender Legal Rights Adjustment to measure the extent to which women have the same level of economic freedom as men. The degree of economic freedom is measured in five broad areas: Size of Government: As government spending, taxation, and the size of government-controlled enterprises increase, government decision-making is substituted for individual choice and economic freedom is reduced. Legal System and Property Rights: Protection of persons and their rightfully acquired property is a central element of both economic freedom and civil society. Indeed, it is the most important function of government. Sound Money: Inflation erodes the value of rightfully earned wages and savings. Sound money is thus essential to protect property rights. When inflation is not only high but also volatile, it becomes difficult for individuals to plan for the future and thus use economic freedom effectively. Freedom to Trade Internationally: Freedom to exchange - in its broadest sense, buying, selling, making contracts, and so on - is essential to economic freedom, which is reduced when freedom to exchange does not include businesses and individuals in other nations. Regulation: Governments not only use a number of tools to limit the right to exchange internationally, they may also impose onerous regulations that limit the right to exchange, gain credit, hire or work for whom you wish, or freely operate your business. Since the Fraser Institute''s first publication in 1996, numerous studies have used the data published in Economic Freedom of the World to examine the impact of economic freedom on investment, economic growth, income levels, and poverty rates. Virtually without exception, these studies have found that countries with institutions and policies more consistent with economic freedom have higher investment rates, more rapid economic growth, higher income levels, and a more rapid reduction in poverty rates. The most recent comprehensive data available are from 2019. Hong Kong remains in the top position. The apparent increased insecurity of property rights and the weakening of the rule of law caused by the interventions of the Chinese government during 2020 and 2021 will likely have a negative impact on Hong Kong''s score, especially in Area 2, Legal System and Property Rights, going forward. Singapore, once again, comes in second. The next highest scoring nations are New Zealand, Switzerland, Georgia, United States, Ireland, Lithuania, Australia, and Denmark. Rankings of other major countries The rankings of some other major countries are Canada (14th), Japan (18th), Germany (22nd), Italy (47th), France (53rd), Mexico (75th), Russia (100th), India (108th), Brazil (109th), and China (116th). Ten lowest-rated countries The ten lowest-rated countries are: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Republic of Congo, Iran, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, and, lastly, Venezuela. Nations that are economically free out-perform non-free nations in indicators of well-being. In the top quartile, the average income of the poorest 10 per cent was $14,400, compared to $1,549 in the bottom quartile (PPP constant 2017, international$). Interestingly, the average income of the poorest 10 per cent in the most economically free nations is more than twice the average per-capita income in the least free nations. In the top quartile, 0.9. per cent of the population experience extreme poverty (US$1.90 a day) compared to 34.1 per cent in the lowest quartile. Life expectancy is 81.1 years in the top quartile compared to 65.9 years in the bottom quartile.

Growen Owen is a rhyming advice book with facts and self help tips for life. Lessons that both adult and child can learn from. The first in a series by father Ryan Murphy, Growen Owen is a great gift for new parents, toddler''s birthdays, and bedtime or classroom reading. Get yourself ready for a really fun book. About a little boy named Owen, what adventures he took. He loves to explore nature behind his house. Looking for creatures like a frog or a mouse. Each day would seem normal except his birthday, When each animal he spotted had something to say. Published by Civin Media Relations with illustrations by renowned artist Eva Anziano.

The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom. Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of individuals and is defined here as negative liberty or the absence of coercive constraint. Because freedom is inherently valuable and plays a role in human progress, it is worth measuring carefully. The Human Freedom Index is a resource that can help to more objectively observe relationships between freedom and other social and economic phenomena, as well as the ways in which the various dimensions of freedom interact with one another.The report is co?published by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute.

Have you ever wondered what a Tyrannosaurus Rex would do at Mardi Gras? Of course you have! Read this book and wonder no more.Join T-Rex as he travels to New Orleans for his very first Mardi Gras! See the traditions and spectacles of the carnival season through the eyes of a seven-ton reptile. Admire a dinosaur''s insatiable appetite for king cake. Marvel at the behemoth''s inability to catch beads. It''s almost as good as being there!

Royal Flush Peter Russo escaped the full-scale onslaught launched by the Gambini Family, and is hiding out on the outskirts of Devas, hatching the best plan of counterattack his genius mind could offer. The Don of the Gambini crime family, having been defied once by the wily Russo Don, is hell bent on squishing this young foe at all costs, even if it means forging alliances with old enemies. Peter''s counter offensive offers a royal flush victory encased in a bloody web of violence, new alliances and fresh blood vendettas '''' A superb piece of crime fiction.... Through it all, Murphy keeps the heat on and keeps the reader rooting for the antihero in an entertaining style...'' ''- Dankreads blog '''' Well written, Murphy brings the same intimacy and charm to ''Royal Flush'' as he did with ''Russo''s Gambit'''' - Redersk Ekspress '''' Compelling, tense, and entertaining, Murphy''s masterful storytelling has all the hallmarks of a perpetual page turner for the new generation of readers.'''' - Writing Guild.

Royal FlushPeter Russo escaped the full-scale onslaught launched by the Gambini Family, and is hiding out on the outskirts of Devas, hatching the best plan of counterattack his genius mind could offer. The Don of the Gambini crime family, having been defied once by the wily Russo Don, is hell bent on squishing this young foe at all costs, even if it means forging alliances with old enemies. Peter''s counter offensive offers a royal flush victory encased in a bloody web of violence, new alliances and fresh blood vendettas

Set in the not-too-distant future, the people of the World that Began to Forget cannot remember the things that they once considered most dear. In such a world, confusion, chaos, and hilarity ensues. As humans struggle, the animal kingdom enjoys a peculiar rise to power. Strange worldly happenings, as well as the ability to restore the world''s memory, are said to be tied to the unusual powers of the mysterious Amnesia Stone. As "normal" life hangs in the balance, the Amnesia Stone captures the imagination of human and beast alike. Many seek, but not all do so with the right intention. Shrouded in darkness, the enigmatic Light Bearer and his Legion plan to bury the truth...once and for all. The transformation of the world rests in the humble hands of a young brother and sister, Rick and Dariella Castillo (as well as an exciting array of travel companions). Will the siblings Castillo leave behind the world that they once knew to courageously follow the benevolent "Angelo" known as Gabby? A dash of Animal Farm, a pinch of It''s a Wonderful Life, and sprinkle in some Chronicles of Narnia. This fantastical journey awakens the imagination but is grounded in truth.A quirky addition to the action/adventure genre without gratuitous violence but not lacking in wonder and spectacle. The Amnesia Stone is the first offering in The Swordless Squires Series.As they are called in "the No Endy Place," become a "Squire Sin Sable" by visiting www.theamnesiastone.com today!

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The Front Steps Project documented families from across Massachusetts and New Hampshire during the COVID-19 pandemic from April to May 2020.

This book offers a modern, contemporary and innovative approach to the core curriculum, offering clear explanations to clarify the material without oversimplification. Carefully developed learning tools are used to help students to build their knowledge of the legal system of England and Wales; moreover, all the materials needed by a reader new to legal education are here in one place. English Legal System will also help students to translate knowledge successfully to an assessment situation (whether examination, tutorial preparation or coursework) through the acquisition and development of key skills such as problem solving and application, critical reasoning and evaluation, and research and referencing. The text has been written with the changes to legal education envisaged by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board in mind. The focus throughout will be on recent and key case law and contemporary real-life examples, bringing the subject alive and helping students to understand the foundations on which the law in England and Wales is based. The key pedagogic features seek to embed those legal skills within the context of the content on the legal system. The associated website provides a comprehensive learning environment that will provide further illumination of the text and graphics and that caters for a number of different learning styles with additional video and audio content.

A large literature has found positive associations between economic freedom and income, growth, and a variety of other desirable outcomes. This paper surveys the literature that seeks to explain the causes of economic freedom. Some of the most consistent findings in this literature are that current levels of economic freedom are strongly correlated with past levels; freer countries have more difficulty continuing to improve their economic freedom; democracy and political freedom are positively associated with economic freedom; and inequality is negatively related.

Can a central bank accidentally provoke changes to a country''s political regime? Sumner (2015) proposes that macroeconomic mismanagement on the part of central bank authorities, leading to declines in nominal output, can cause voters to respond with populism at the ballot box. Murphy and Smith (2018) have found evidence for this hypothesis, with populism interpreted as movements away from liberal market institutions. This article extends the hypothesis to macroeconomic mismanagement and its relationship with democratic political institutions. It finds both that recessions foreshadow a lower probability of a dictatorship becoming a democracy, and that a democracy is more likely to become a dictatorship. The relationship with autocratisation is most visible after 15 years, while the negative relationship with democratisation is far more persistent over time. These findings, it must be stressed, are historical and descriptive, not necessarily causal.

In Markets Against Modernity, economist Ryan Murphy documents a clear continuity between the systematic errors people make in their personal lives and the gaps between public opinion and informed opinion. These errors cluster around specific divergences between how the modern world’s institutions function—including global markets, pluralistic democracy, and even science itself—and how evolution trained our brains to understand the nature of economic relationships, social relationships, and humanity’s relationship to the physical world. Murphy calls these systematic divergences Ecological Irrationality. Exploring them leads him to even more prickly questions—and to conclusions that may challenge the beliefs of those who understand that, for instance, modern vaccines are safe and effective. Do we actually want a less cohesive society? Is doing a task yourself financially prudent? And if we recognize an expert consensus, is there even a way to implement it and achieve the desired effects?

Buy the paperback version of this book and get the kindle version FREE !!! The Enneagram of Personality, or simply the Enneagram is a model of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types. The book wants to guide the reader through the process of using the Enneagram tool to discover personality types and use the information for self-improvement. Each of the six chapters takes on different aspects of the Enneagram and its uses. It starts by explaining the Enneagram in detail and moves on to the practical application. Since the Enneagram does have some psychological roots, there are brief sections that examine various scientific theories. The main goal of the book, however, is to apply it to self-understanding and improving quality of life. This book includes: A comprehensive break down of the nine Enneagram types, including strengths and weaknesses and examples of famous Types 1-9 A couple of different methods to use in ascertaining your personality type A brief look into self-understanding (defining what "self" is, psychological theories, and how to use the Enneagram to understand "self" better) A section on emotional intelligence and how to use the enneagram model to improve EQ (it also includes some psychological theories and explanations to define emotional intelligence better) A chapter on understanding others using the Enneagram (the majority of the book, up to this point, is geared towards the self - this is most useful after taking the quiz because it deals directly with the Enneagram types and how they relate to other models in work, personal, and romantic relationships) A final chapter on actual integration of what was learned throughout the book: how to build stronger relationships, how to grow spiritually, and how to deal with our own brokenness in order to heal our relationships with others This book contains a lot of information, from scientific to emotional, objective to subjective. It is an excellent tool for anyone who wants to know more about the Enneagram and how to use it to enhance their personal lives in every aspect. What are you waiting for? Click "Buy Now" and start immediately this beautiful journey inside your knowledge of Enneagram!!!

According to popular attitudes in Western democracies, the choice between right-wing and left-wing parties is a choice between socialism and unbridled free markets. In contrast, the cold and staid research of academia has frequently concluded that particular political parties do not really matter, as whichever party is elected will be closely tethered to the will of the median voter. This article considers the effects of the ideology of parties in power over the long run (1928-95) on economic freedom in subsequent periods. Right-wing governments are found to have modest, positive effects on economic freedom, but the effects are not particularly robust. The findings here are consistent with others elsewhere, which conclude that there is minor, uneven evidence of an effect. Nonetheless, historically small effects may not be indicative of the future, should these effects be poorly indicative of today''s tumultuous political landscape.

This paper undertakes a descriptive analysis of changes in economic institutions across countries from 2000-2016, using Economic Freedom of the World and the “State Economic Modernity” index. This latter index is a recent creation, similar conceptually to state capacity, measuring what can variously be thought of as state building, effectiveness, and economic power. State Economic Modernity can also be thought of as the economic institutions associated with social democracy. These two indexes are used in concert with one another to classify countries into eight directions of institutional change. Despite recent pessimism, countries besides those at the top income bracket have continued to liberalize, while wealthy countries have merely stagnated. At the high level aggregates, there is little movement in “State Economic Modernity” over this period, although there is considerably heterogeneity among individual countries. Rwanda is the single country to make the greatest movement towards the development benchmark of “Getting to Denmark,” while, directionally, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Guinea-Bissau, and Indonesia have made significant positive movements as well.

A large empirical literature has found positive effects of economic freedom on economic outcomes, such as output and per capita growth. However, several variables in the index are very likely to decline in conjunction with recessions. In the absence of these variables, does the well-studied positive relationship between economic freedom and economic output hold? This paper makes use of a dynamic panel to compare the performance of economic freedom with and without these variables, which pertain to levels of government spending, rates of inflation, government borrowing, and interest rates. Two specifications fall in their statistical significance from the 1% to the 10% level when variables relating to inflation are omitted. The worst case considered finds one specification size of the effect is still 66.3% of the effect size of the standard measure of economic freedom. These findings are consistent with this kind of endogeneity being a minor problem with the data set when imperfect identification strategies are employed, but the issue should be strongly considered when business cycles are pertinent to a research question using economic freedom data.

What are the effects of culture on economic institutions? Many see an essential role for culture in institutional development. This paper systematically considers twelve dimensions of culture on two dimensions of economic institutions: liberal economic institutions and the building of large, effective states. Dimensions of culture adjacent to one another are shown to correlate differently with the two measures of institutions. This analysis is, in part, framed in terms of the debate regarding the relationship between migration, culture, and institutions, and it casts doubts on positions that these variables are as tightly or as consistently related as is at times portrayed.

The Book of Booty presents a fun, full color book for fans of WWE''s The New Day tag team with all the silliness, positivity, unicorns, trombones, and twerking fans can get. Multi-time W . . . W . . . E! (WWE) TAG! TEAM! CHAMPIONS! The New Day want you to feel the power!! And now you can with The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It. From the purveyors of positivity themselves, each chapter of this handy guide will help you embrace the New Day way of life. Even if you’re feeling booty—and who (who?! who?! who?! who?! who?!) has never felt booty? —you’ll be clapping, gyrating, and radiating positivity like the New Day themselves. Fans will learn: * The New Day’s official definition of “booty,” and the telltale signs that you or a loved one might be booty * The proper attire and headwear for the new you * How to twerk like a man * What your spirit animal says about you * How to project positivity By the time you finish this book, you''ll be a rainbow-gazing, trombone-playing, unicorn-loving soldier of positivity, ready to take on nefarious WWE tag teams with a smile on your face. Pro tip: Eat your Booty O’s every morning for added strength!

At the conclusion of 2017, to the dismay of journalists, pundits, and academics, large numbers of adolescents began consuming Tide Pods, a form of laundry detergent that is candy-like in appearance. This paper argues that purposeful consumption of laundry detergent may in fact be individually rational for adolescents, although with negative externalities. The consumption of Tide Pods may allow adolescents to successfully signal status in accordance with the Handicap Principle, which explains the beauty of a peacock''s tail and the practice of stotting by gazelles in the wild. The Handicap Principle is also a common explanation of adolescents'' willingness to engage in dangerous activities such as drug use. Public policy implications of this theoretic argument would include discouraging Tide Pod consumption, although this would follow from the negative externalities associated with positional goods, as opposed to paternalistic concern for the health of adolescents.

The paradigm of liberalism - the preeminence of some form of universal human rights - has taken hold in much of the developed world, with obvious exceptions. Prior to liberalism, certain subgroups in society were not accorded full moral status and were considered morally as part of the outgroup. With many now professing the belief in universal human rights across all creeds, races, ethnicities, citizenship, gender, and sexuality, to whom is the psychology of the outgroup applied? This paper observes the rhetoric and moral sentiments that have historically been invoked when making ingroup-outgroup distinctions now invoked to characterize large corporations. This characterization, when applied to all businesses in competitive markets, is actually approximately correct, but its most important implication is merely the accuracy of the profit-maximizing assumption already found in all of neoclassical microeconomics. The analysis here may have some implications for the literature on corporate social responsibility, as consumer sovereignty implies that ethical actions by businesses not already demanded by consumers are violations of consumer sovereignty.

Rentfrow et al. (2013) constructs a cross-section of the “Big Five” personality traits and demonstrates their relationship with outcomes variables for the continental United States and the District of Columbia. Hyatt et al. (Forthcoming) creates a means of describing psychopathy in terms of the Big Five personality traits. When these two findings are combined, a state-level estimate of psychopathy is produced. Among the typical predictions made regarding psychopathy, the variable with the closest univariate relationship with this new statistical aggregate is the percentage of the population in the state living in an urban area. There is not a clear univariate relationship with homicide rates.

Aging populations continue to put strain on government finances, as such demographic shifts cause fewer tax dollars and more citizens on pension programs. What effect does this have on the size of government across countries worldwide? We study this using the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index published by the Fraser Institute. One fifth of the index is comprised of measures of the size of government. We investigate whether the share of the population over 65 has a negative impact on this measure of the size of government, as well as whether it has a negative impact on the narrower measure of subsidies and transfers published in EFW. Using standard panel methods we find support for this hypothesis. These results are supported by the use of the aged dependency ratio as a robustness check.